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Home > Search for DIY Projects by Trade Type > How to Fix to Materials Including Plasterboard and Mortar and What Different Types of Fixings There are > Adhesives and Chemical Fixings Tutorials and Guides Including DIY How To Projects

Adhesives and Chemical Fixings Tutorials and Guides Including DIY How To Projects

Welcome to our Adhesives projects area. In this area of our site you will find a collection of DIY projects covering everything to do with adhesives and their use - these topic areas include choosing wallpaper paste and adhesives for DIY and construction. Each of the 'how to' tutorial projects listed below is an easy-to-follow guide featuring images and video and will help understand how these items are used and enable you to master your particular DIY job. In the unlikely event that the project doesn't help you try our very popular advice forum.

  • PVA Adhesive Uses and Properties

    Adhesives - pva - Uses for PVA adhesive. PVA or Polyvinyl Acetate is an excellent wood glue for DIY and an extremely versatile waterproof adhesive and sealer which has an extraordinary number of uses in the building trade.


  • Chemical Fixings

    Chemical fixings and anchor resins - Chemical Fixings and Resin Anchors - How to correctly use chemical fixings and resins to anchor into brick and blockwork and avoid splits and cracks


  • Using Flexible Filler

    Flexible filler usage and applications - Information on how and when to use flexible filler or decorators caulk on the interior and exterior of a property


The words glue and adhesive are often transposed, being used to describe the same products. While they do both do the same job (i.e. sticking things together!) historically glue was the first to market, being formed from organic materials such as tree sap and egg white. Adhesives came later, mostly being chemical based, such as PVA (information on this can be found in our PVA adhesives project).

It is said that glues made from tree sap have been found in artifacts almost 200,000 years old but Wikipedia say that the first written records of glue production are only about 2000 years old. Evidence of glue made from animal parts is prolific amongst Egyptian, Roman and Greek history where it was used to glue furniture joints together.

The range of adhesives today is vast, Adhesives have got stronger and stronger and todays synthetic adhesives are even used to hold parts of airplanes together. Construction adesives such as Gripfill, Sticks Like Sh*t, No More Nails etc from adhesive companies such as Unibond, Araldite, Loctite, Evostik

Example of a well known super glue

Example of a well known super glue

The most common use of glues and adhesives in the home improvement sector however, remain in carpentry where modern construction glues are as strong as the timber itself. Wall tile adhesive is used a great deal as are a great many grab adhesives, impact adhesives, hot melt adhesives and flooring adhesives.

Superglue ( as with many great inventions, was discovered by accident by the Kodak film company) and PVA are the two most used adhesives at home but our projects explain the use of stronger construction adhesives and epoxies which can be sued to make improvement and repairs which will last a lifetime.

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