More aggressive Hardware adhesives. White glue, is a common craft glue, with excellent clean-up/limited bond. A step up would be (Titebond), a yellow wood glue, that requires some clean-up. I found that, some of the extensive wood model builds, that required Pre-painting larger wall/roof panels, also required, bond surface prep, (paint removal from the bond area, before glue was applied. Even some of the sticky-backed shingles were temperamental. On the 1 X 1 home modeling, (Example kitchen floor vinyl/sticky back, peel and stick, material, required a pre-paint of luan/plywood floor before application), Apparently the floor will pull the adhesive from the floor tile. One of those read all instructions before proceeding. Have fun, Mike CT.
Recently did an extensive overhaul of a 1ft to 1" doll house that I had been assembled, 20 years ago. The sweet young lady, the house was built for, now 22, gave the house to (3), three, much younger, cousins. The roof shingles were applied with contact cement. Age, heat, lack of humidity, the shingles needed re-applied, and re-painted/stained. Contact adhesives, are designed, to be applied, to both surfaces, let dry /set, and then position, and stick the small shingles in place. The (second), more liberal application, of contact adhesive, was masked-over by an application of acrylic wood trim stain.
The doll House, which had found a home, Philadelphia, PA, for 20 years, is now in Illinois. At 74, I probably won't be around for the next remodel. Mike CT. 
