No More Nails! ...and the like... any good or gimick?

[MontyVeda]

as the title says.... are these adhesives any good?

*other 'super strength' adhesives are available.

...or are more traditional adhesives such as Evo stick, tile/coving adhesive preferable?

I've got some horrible wall tiles to cover (with white faced hardboard or MDF)... removing the tiles means I'd have to re plaster, so the cheap/quick fix is to cover them. So a glue that'll bond a glazed surface to a porous surface is required .

 

[colly]

No More Nails....................Brilliant concept, and I know people who swear by it.
Me? I wouldn't trust it to hold up a bank let alone a wall panel.

Drill a couple of holes, bung in some plugs and screw it on. Or better yet.................... screw it on 'as well'.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Why not decorate the rest of the room to match the tiles and call it a retro cool look?

 

[accountantpete]

Sticks Like shoot?

 

[Adam4868]

It will do the job you want,why not take the tiles of dot and dab plasterboard on to damaged wall and..... The options are endless.

 

[rich p]

Drilling and screwing is cheaper and more reliable - as Colly says.
Fewer screws and a lot of No More Nails if you want less defacing

 

[Aperitif]

Tile over the tiles - as long as they are not breaking away. X7 or similar powder mix adhesive for normal situations.
Gripfill or the other sticky things illustrated are good. The toughest one is polyurethane adhesive, but that 'expands' marginally. no problem for doing what you describe though - in my experience. Gripfill is the stuff carpet fitters use to stick gripper rods to concrete floors or tricky substrates, prior to yanking a carpet in all directions.
To cover old tiles, plasterboard and board adhesive, or a bag of board adhesive is cheap...again, board adhesive will stick like shoot to a blanket - then the wall is fit for paint, tile, wallpaper etc - go for it!
Edited re: Adam's post under - I was thinking of two things at once, sorry!

 

[Adam4868]

Bonding isnt for tiles,no suction.Board adhesive then plasterboard.Board adhesive will stick to anything,so you could go straight over tiles.Makes a mess of your clothes aswell.

 

[ayceejay]

It depends what the old tiles are attached to and with what. If you use the best fixing in the world it is only as good as what you are fixing to, if for example, you glue to the "horrible wall tiles" that are bonded to wallpaper we are talking about a disaster here. To get a good fixing you need to ignore the surface and fix to what is behind those "horrible wall tiles"

 

[colly]

You could always try Skyhooks. Just ask at B&Q. Bags of 10.

 

[cardiac case]

Everyone should use it.


No More Punctures

 

[ColinJ]

You could always try Skyhooks. Just ask at B&Q. Bags of 10.

Left-handed, or right-handed?

 

[slowmotion]

Gripfill is pretty good for (1) board to board (2) board to timber and (3) board to tiles. For sticking anything to plaster, I have never had any luck at all.

BTW, if you squirt a bead on to both surfaces and wait for a couple of minutes, it "grabs" like crazy when you bring the pieces together.

Edit: You really must use the green tube Gripfill with loads of evil solvents. The solvent-free version is spectacularly impotent.

 

[GM]

You could always try Skyhooks. Just ask at B&Q. Bags of 10.

We used to get the apprentices on that one!

 

[Nathan_Wind]

I have used it and it is good.

However, you will only get one chance to fit the MDF so make sure it fits exactly where you want it to or you may have made it a lot worse.