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Hey guys. Can anyone give me some advice as regards specific tile cement and grout which is suitible for tiling behind my woodburner.

I did this job months ago, but down to my own ignorance and some bad advice from the farmer where i resided, i tiled straight onto the 9mm ply with standard ready mixed cement. Now, after a winter of roaring fires the lot...obviously...is all coming off!!

My plan is to screw cement based tile backer boards into the ply behind the burner and tile directly on to that. However, im unsure as to whether i'd need to use a specialist cement and grout for tiling fire surrounds?? Will a good quality cement based adhesive suffice? Would using heat resistant silicone (plumba Flue) to hang the tiles do the job or maybe a good quality 'grab-adhesive' like evo-stick would be better suited!?!

Im interested to hear from other peoples experience on this matter, as i dont want to be correcting the job a third time.

Cheers guys/gals

I used a grey builders adhesive. it came in a caulking tube. Sorry I cannot be more helpfull but it was 15yrs ago , and they still look great , 80,000 km travelled and all those winters etc .

So what I'm saying is ; try a good quality adhesive , no grout , just enough sticky so it does not squeese out between the tiles.

PS .. I mounted my tiles on a piece of 3mm metal plate. I figured I didnt want it to move etc.