At Gluegunsdirect.com, we offer adhesives tailored for bonding materials like brick, stone, slate, and ceramic tiles to display boards. Our recommended products provide a strong, durable bond while ensuring an aesthetically pleasing finish. Whether you’re working with foam, cardboard, or wood display boards, our high-quality adhesives, combined with our range of reliable glue guns, deliver consistent and professional results for your display projects.
Bonding – Brick, Stone, Slate & Ceramic tiles to Display boards?
Instant bonding of Brick, Stone, Slate and Ceramic tiles to display boards is easy, clean and very cost effective, using Tecbond 261 hot melt adhesive.
Tecbond 261 replaces the use of messy, slow drying conventional tile cement, silicone sealants or expensive double sided tapes. Tecbond 261 is a high performance adhesive and once set forms a tough, flexible bond allowing the adhesive to flex with the board.
TECBOND 261 HIGH PERFORMANCE HOT MELT GLUE
Tecbond 261 is a uniquely flexible hot melt that is quite different to all other hot melt sticks, Once set it remains extremely flexible. This enables it to withstand both shock loading, and the stresses caused by thermal expansion. The thermal expansion is an important factor with ceramic tile displays, The ceramic tiles do not expand or contract much with temperature changes, However the wooden boards they are attached to do.
This means that very high shear forces can occur along the adhesive line as the temperature changes, The larger the tile, the larger the distance between the blobs of adhesive and the higher the stress due to the different expansion rates. The problems tile display manufacturers face is that many ordinary hot melts initially look as strong as the Tecbond 261, but as the temperatures change with the change the less flexible adhesives are put under increasing stress until tiles start falling from boards, often 6 months later.
The benefits of using Tecbond 261 outweigh the small savings made by switching to the lower cost standard adhesive.
Tecbond 261 12mm | Tecbond 261 43mm
For heavy tiles or large floor tiles we recommend applying a “blob” of Everbuild EB 25 to the center and 4 “blobs” of the Tecbond 261 to each corner. The hot melt will give the instant grab while the EB25 cures. EB25 will offer extra strength required with these larger heavier tiles.
Our customers also asked:
Q: What type of adhesive is best for gluing brick, stone, slate, and ceramic tiles to display boards?
A: Tecbond 261 is a uniquely flexible hot melt that is quite different to all other hot melt sticks, Once set it remains extremely flexible. This enables it to withstand both shock loading and the stresses caused by thermal expansion. The thermal expansion is an important factor with ceramic tile displays, The ceramic tiles do not expand or contract much with temperature changes, However, the wooden boards they are attached to do.
Q: Do I need a specific type of glue gun to apply the recommended adhesive for these materials?
A: Buy a British-built TEC glue gun, you get a 12-month warranty from the date of purchase, a trade-in option for when the glue gun is out of warranty and you know it’s been built to the highest safety standards.
Q: Are there any special steps or preparation needed to ensure a strong bond when gluing these materials to display boards?
A: The problems tile display manufacturers face is that many low-cost hot melt adhesives initially look as strong as the Tecbond 261, but as the temperatures change with the change the less flexible adhesives are put under increasing stress until tiles start falling from boards, often 6 months later. For heavy tiles or large floor tiles, we recommend applying a “blob” of silicone to the centre and 4 “blobs” of the Tecbond 261 to each corner. The hot melt will give the instant grab while the silicone cures. Silicone will offer the extra strength required with these larger heavier tiles.
Q: Can I use the same adhesive for different types of display boards, such as foam, cardboard, or wood?
A: Tecbond 261 provides instant bonding of brick, stone, slate and ceramic tiles to many types of display boards. The benefits of using Tecbond 261 outweigh the small savings made by switching to the lower-cost standard adhesive.
