Is "thinset" (cement powder plus fine sand plus latex bonding liquid) the same as cement-based tile adhesive?
I am busy with a new mosaic project for a colleague. She wants me to make a bistro table top using broken china which has sentimental value. Because the china is of different thicknesses, I will need to use the "indirect" method, in other words, stick the tesserae face down on brown paper and then set it into a slurry on the table top. I find this a tricky method and last time I used plain cement, and the results were unsatisfactory (too complex to explain). The best would be to use a thinset slurry (cement powder plus fine sand plus latex bonding liquid), which I can make from scratch. It would be more convenient to use an off-the-shelf product. Is cement-based tile adhesive the same thing basically?
I am busy with a new mosaic project for a colleague. She wants me to make a bistro table top using broken china which has sentimental value. Because the china is of different thicknesses, I will need to use the "indirect" method, in other words, stick the tesserae face down on brown paper and then set it into a slurry on the table top. I find this a tricky method and last time I used plain cement, and the results were unsatisfactory (too complex to explain). The best would be to use a thinset slurry (cement powder plus fine sand plus latex bonding liquid), which I can make from scratch. It would be more convenient to use an off-the-shelf product. Is cement-based tile adhesive the same thing basically?
