Replacing carpet with tile can give your home an exciting new look.
Black floor tile glue.
Many modern mastics are latex or water based and can be softened with water.
Asphaltic cutback adhesive is an older type of mastic made with asphalt based cement.
What is black mastic.
As a petroleum based material the cutback is not softened by water.
Mastic is the general term for a type of glue like flooring adhesive.
It s used to securely fix the tile to either the wall or floor by using a trowel to spread the adhesive in metre square sections as you lay the tiles so the adhesive doesn t dry before you ve had a chance to lay them.
Whenever we find black mastic on a floor we coat it with a material called perfectprimer it sticks tot the mastic and then bonds to any tile glue or epoxy customer wants to apply.
Black mastic also known as cutback adhesive was commonly used to glue flooring tiles down.
You can t tile over old carpet glue but it s not hard to remove carpet adhesive before tiling.
But now that you have ripped up the old carpet you ve got a sticky situation.