calcium sulphate screeds take forever to dry

[Ian]

It's a bit of a worry really as we've had some warm weather over the past few months. Is it fair to say our climate isn't particularly suited to this type of screed?

 

[Ajax123]

Thats all good and well if they use me for the job, if they don't I've lost £70!

No you give it free WITH the order to tile....

 

[Ian]

No you give it free WITH the order to tile....

Ok fair enough, include it in the deposit, type thing. Problem is it may well be a couple of months from deposit to actually tiling, I could see a few restless customers on the cards.

 

[bugs183]

No not a low laitence screed ,free hygrometer what a load of nonsense I purchased the protimeter floor testing kit cost 450 plus vat came with 1 foam testing box I decided to buy 2 more boxes that you can plug the hygrometer into at 26 pounds each ago and 3 digital boxes lucky I did as over the 6 rooms they were placed in all 6 readings were different ranging from 68 percent to 93 one hygrometer would not be enough to give an accurate reading of any average sized floor these screeds do not dry out quickly v

I looked into all this Gary. Spoke to all the moisture testing companies, adhesives companies, screed manufacturers. Everyone said something different. I gave up in the end! Most of the builders i use had problems with this screeds be it the mix not drying, dodgy pours etc, so they've all gone back to sand and cement.