My employee used liquid nails to adhere a ceramic soap dish in the corner of a ceramic tub. And of course he caulked around it with Swanstone caulk. The problem is that the liquid nails must of expanded and pushed out the soap dish. It is still attached good however the customer is not pleased. Any advice of what type of adhesive to use for this situation? We are not tile experts. Just poor unknowledgable handymen. Can someone help us?
Tank you,
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I am sort of like you--a poor, unknowledgeable handyman--but I recently had to glue some tiles to a tub (it's a long story--basically, the lady didn't like the looks of caulk) and I found an adhesive in a tube (like toothpaste) that seems to work (it said it was for that purpose). I can try to find out the name and edit this tomorrow.
I would tend to think that silicone would work for that, as might polyurethane adhesive in caulk-gun type tubes (PL is a good brand)--marine adhesive would be good too. Come to think of it, I think PL says not for constant exposure to water. Liquid Nails has an adhesive made for tub surrounds that should work too. I'm sort of surprised that the adhesive you used expanded--most sort of shrink as they cure.
How do you plan to get the soap disk off? Maybe working a flexible putty knife or a hacksaw blade between it and the ceramic would work. Good luck!
Here's what you do. Have a hot melt glue gun handy and warmed up, and mix up some two part epoxy. Epoxy the whole back of the soap dish except for two little spots where you put the hot glue, then push it into place and hold for 30 seconds or a minute, whatever your hot glue takes to set up.
That's it.