How And Where To Best Use Acid Resistant Mortar For Your Tiles And Bricks

Quality Acid Resistant Mortar

In many manufacturing facilities, there are highly acidic kiln refractory products that need to be used during a process. Many of these are food items such as vinegar, crème of tartar, orange juice and even soda pop for drinking. The grouts and mortars between the tiles or bricks have to be impermeable to many different chemicals and solvents or they won’t last long. Sometimes the cost of replacement, including labor and downtime of the production line, far outweigh any cost of higher quality acid resistant mortars.

How To Use Acid Resistant Mortars

The problem with many types of acid or alkaline resistant mortars is that they are epoxy based and need certain higher temperatures in order to start the chemical hardening process. In that case, you’ll need to read the label and make sure how to mix up the mortar if you’re going to use it in a refrigerated room or warehouse. Most of the time, you can mix it at room temperature, approximately 70 F, and then take it into the cold room for use without any problems.

You can also buy special cold room hardeners that will allow usage as low as 40 F which gives enough temperature variance that most cold rooms can be accommodating. None of the silicate-based mortar should ever be used below 50 F, however, because they will never set up at that temperature.

Care should be taken to always follow the mixing directions on the container, never reconstitute water that has separated from the resin and never try to add more moisture to any mixture that has begun to set. It must be discarded and a new batch mixed up instead.

Most brick or tile layers are well versed in the various types of http://kilnrefractory.com/acid-resistant-mortar and their uses. You should check that they are before hiring them to make sure. Additionally, you might want to wait for advice from the brick layer on the best type of acid resistant mortar to buy before making your selection. See more: http://kilnrefractory.com.