TAL offers a wide range of tiling adhesives to meet every tiling installation requirement. TAL tiling adhesives are user-friendly as they only require the addition of clean water or a latex additive. Another benefit is that they are formulated and designed to ensure a strong and flexible installation. TAL’s range of quality and easy-to-use tiling adhesives include standard-setting, ready-mixed and rapid-setting adhesives. TAL tiling adhesives are suitable for fixing all types of tiles, including ceramic; porcelain; natural stone; clay and mosaic tiles, to walls and floors in interior, exterior and wet areas.
Rapid Set Adhesives | ||||
 | TAL GOLDSTAR 2 is a grey ultra-fast setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement based adhesive for fixing ceramic, porcelain, granite, dark-coloured marble and natural stone tiles to walls and floors. TAL GOLDSTAR 2 is ideal for remedial work and tiling in doorways and passages, where access is required soon after tiling. | |||
 | TAL GOLDSTAR 6 is a grey rapid-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement based adhesive for fixing ceramic, porcelain, granite, dark-coloured marble and natural stone tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 1½ hour pot life. Application thickness: Between 5 – 12mm, and up to 20mm in isolated areas only. | |||
 | TAL EPOXY ADHESIVE & GROUT is a high performance, 3-component epoxy-based adhesive for fixing tiles to walls and floors, and can also be used for subsequent grouting. TAL EPOXY ADHESIVE & GROUT is suitable for use with glass tiles/mosaics and resin bonded tiles, and is ideal for installation areas where chemical resistance and good hygienic conditions are important, such as abattoirs, breweries, dairies, hospitals, food and beverage production and preparation areas, swimming pools, bacteria and mouldgrowth areas, etc. | |||
 | TAL GOLDSTAR 12 is a grey quick-setting high-strength cement-based adhesive for fixing porcelain, granite, dark-coloured marble and natural stone, ceramic, clay and terrazzo tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 4 hour pot life. Application thickness: up to 12mm; max 20mm in isolated areas only | |||
 | TAL GOLDSTAR 18 is a grey quick-setting high-strength cement-based adhesive for fixing ceramic, porcelain, dark-coloured natural stone (granite, marble, sandstone, etc.) tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing an 8 hour pot life. Application thickness: between 3-6mm; and up to 12mm in isolated areas only | |||
 | TAL GOLDSTAR XL tile adhesive is a grey quick-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement-based adhesive for fixing large format ceramic, porcelain, dark-coloured natural stone (granite, marble, sandstone, etc) tiles to walls and floors. By rough definition, a large format tile is a tile with the length of at least one edge greater than 600mm (nominal), or a facial area greater than 3500cm² (nominal). Thus, a nominal 600 x 600mm tile would be large format. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 4-hour pot life and a 30-minute open time. | |||
 | TAL GOLDFLEX is a grey flexible rapid-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement-based adhesive that allows grouting after only 3 hours, and full traffic after only 6 hours. It is a one-component adhesive specially formulated to allow for flexibility, water resistance and increased strength, usually only achieved by the addition of latex admixtures. Only clean water needs to be added, reducing mixing errors on site. | |||
 | TAL TILE-TO-TILE is a grey quick-setting highstrength cement-based adhesive specially formulated for fixing most types of tiles onto smooth and dense surfaces such as existing tiles, powerfloated screeds, etc. Application thickness: between 5-12mm; and up to 20mm in isolated areas only | |||
 | TALFIX is a grey quick-setting high-strength cement based adhesive ideally suited for, but not restricted to, smaller DIY installations and tile replacements. Suitable for fixing ceramic, porcelain, dark-coloured natural stone (granite, marble, sandstone, etc) tiles to walls and floors. Application thickness: between 5 – 12mm, and up to 20mm in isolated areas onlySets after: 12 hours Pack size: 5kg | |||
 | TAL Porcelainset is a grey quick-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated, 12-hour, cement-based adhesive for fixing porcelain, ceramic, dark-coloured natural stone (granite, marble, sandstone, etc) tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 4 hour pot life.
Application thickness: between 5 – 12mm, and up to 20mm in isolated areas only. Sets after: 12 hours Pack size: 20kg | |||
 | TAL MOSAICFIX is a quick-setting high-strength cement-based powder adhesive designed for fixing ceramic, porcelain and natural stone mosaics onto walls and floors. It can also be used as a grouting or pre-grouting of mosaics. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing up to 2 hours Pot Life after mixing. TAL MOSAICFIX is also suitable for fixing ‘fusion-type’ glass mosaics with tesserae no larger than 100 x 100mm. TAL MOSAICFIX is available in Super White and Light Grey. Application thickness: between 4 – 6mm, and up to 12mm in isolated areas only | |||
 | TAL MARBLEFIX is a light-coloured rapid-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement-based adhesive specifically designed for fixing white or light-coloured marble and travertine tiles and mosaics. TAL MARBLEFIX can also be used for fixing ceramic, porcelain, granite and light-coloured natural stone tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 1½ hour pot life. | |||
 | TAL MARBLEFLEX is a light-coloured flexible rapid-setting high-strength shrinkage-compensated cement based adhesive specifically designed for fixing white or light-coloured marble and travertine tiles and osaics, that allows grouting after only 3 hours and full traffic after only 6 hours. | |||
Standard Set Adhesives | ||||
 | TAL PROFESSIONAL is a grey general-purpose standard-setting cement based powder adhesive for fixing ceramic tiles to walls and floors. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing up to 3 hours pot life after mixing.
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 | TAL PROFESSIONAL WHITE is a white (light-coloured) general-purpose standard-setting cement based powder adhesive especially formulated for fixing white and light coloured ceramic tiles which are susceptible to glaze discolouration due to moisture pull through (ie grey adhesive shows through the light-coloured body of the tile). TAL PROFESSIONAL WHITE can be used for ceramic wall and floor tiles and was designed for easy use, allowing up to 3 hours pot life after mixing. | |||
 | TAL STIX is a grey general-purpose cement based powder adhesive for fixing ceramic wall and floor tiles in interior and exterior installations, and was developed for the DIY market. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing up to 3 hours pot life after mixing. Coverage: 3kg/m² when applied using Notched Wall Trowel. 6kg/m² when applied using a Notched Floor Trowel. | |||
 | TAL Porcelainfix is a grey, high-strength, 24 hour setting cement-based adhesive for fixing porcelain tiles. It can also be used to fix other types of tiles. The adhesive was designed for easy use, allowing a 12-hour pot life. Application thickness: between 3 – 6mm, and up to 12mm in isolated areas only. Sets after: 24 hours Pack size: 20kg | |||
Ready Mix Adhesives | ||||
 | TAL FLEX is a thin-bed polymer-based paste adhesive for fixing lightweight tiles to flexible surfaces, such as partition walling. TAL FLEX has immediate tile-grip characteristics, thus minimising the possibility of tileslump. As TAL FLEX gives immediate grip, it is ideal for fixing lightweight tiles in upside-down tiling situations such as window and doorway arches. TAL FLEX should not be used in extreme wet conditions,or on floors. Application thickness: up to 4mm | |||
