There are no adhesives that are guaranteed for use with bitumen apart from more bitumen. However you can use some solvent adhesives as they will melt the bitumen but they do take a long time to dry. Buzz Hexabond does also adhere to bitumen (although not guaranteed!). Many of our customers have been using it for years now and it does not degrade with time, plus it dries a lot faster than solvent options!

Slow curing problems normally as a result of very low air humidity in the winter especially in warmer environs. Conversely if it is skinning over too quickly it is likely because of a high air humidity in the summer, or in a damp building.

Q: Is gluing really better than nailing? A: Often, yes. Especially with wide boards (200mm+), nails alone usually won’t cut it. Wide boards love to misbehave unless they’re firmly bonded down. You’ve got two main methods: • Full trowel – adhesive spread over the entire surface. • Beads from a sausage gun – often used with slatted underlay systems.

Bitumen based – Old-school, brittle and doesn’t age well. Best left in the past. Solvent based – Very strong, but smelly, environmentally unfriendly and increasingly expensive. Polyurethane (PU) – Strong and flexible, but horribly messy. Once it dries on your hands or boards, it’s there for life – hence the legendary “black hand syndrome”. MS Polymers (hybrid adhesives) – The modern hero. Strong, flexible, much easier to clean and partially moisture resistant. They’re now the gold standard.