Lesgrandepotato Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Due to a minor miscommunication.. aka I forgot to book it... the floor is being sanded back on Monday to take the top 5-10mm off ready for tiling etc. The house is fully open plan with no doors at the moment and stuff generally stacked around. Is this a relatively tidy operation or an oh shit get the house dust proofed sort of operation? We have painted walls and light fitted so I don't really want tonnes of dust everywhere. I leaning towards assuming the magic machine has extraction built in and it'll be fine. Am I a raging eejit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Really messy. I've not seen floor grinders with extraction, only the small hand grinders they'll use for the edges. The dust seems to come off electrically charged and sticks to painted walls surprisingly well. 5-10mm grinding is a a lot. Is there not a way around it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 It's to take the watery crust of the top of the screed from when it settled down. It was a 40mm fibre screed and it goes in a like a custard or soup consistency. 5-10mm may be my misunderstanding! I'll get the rooms not involved sheeted off and get a soft broom for the rest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Are we talking liquid screed? 40mm screed with 10 off = 30mm left = not good. Should be 3-5mm off max? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 Suspect it's my misunderstanding. Looks super flat to me. But apparently the top bit is a crust and needs to come off. will get sheeted up this afternoon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 Cheers gents - I've sheeted all over the place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grosey Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 5 hours ago, Lesgrandepotato said: Cheers gents - I've sheeted all over the place I believe the correct verb is Shat... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 57 minutes ago, Grosey said: I believe the correct verb is Shat... To be fair the site bog has a hint of trainspotting about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 So I've popped in today, sanded back site immaculate and no sign of dust. What witchcraft is this!?! Still jobs been done dropped can of paint clearly has been sanded out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roundtuit Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Interesting. I need to get about 150 sq m done in the near future. How big a job is it? One man with a floor sander for a couple of hours, or something more complicated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Any indication on price per M2 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 On 21/08/2017 at 22:48, Roundtuit said: Interesting. I need to get about 150 sq m done in the near future. How big a job is it? One man with a floor sander for a couple of hours, or something more complicated? Couple of lads for a couple of hours. There were doing three jobs a day. That was 110sqm done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 23 hours ago, PeterW said: Any indication on price per M2 ?? Approximately £1.10. 110sqm or so. £125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Que..??!! What did they use ..??! Have they taken a fair bit (i.e. 2-3mm) off..? The disks alone to hire are £40... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 That's not cheap, it's FREE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roundtuit Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 That's what I was hoping? If it's a low laitance liquid screed, doesn't it just need a quick once-over with a 60 grit to provide a key, rather than a couple of mil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 It looks like a pretty light going over, some good sized swirl marks in the surface. It's taken some thing off as we had paint all over the show. It was the screed guys who've done it. We looked at the hire of the kit at about 75quid for the machine and disk. Made no sense for my lads to do it at 125. That said we did have to wait until they were in the area to do it, they'd got three jobs lined up within a few miles that they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 If you were expecting 10mm off the top, does only having had a couple of mm off make an important difference to your floor heights? None of our external doors would have opened if our floor had ended up 7mm higher than planned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesgrandepotato Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 Its all good, the doors open outwards and we have a tolerance built in for the floor make up of tiles into the doors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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