Job In Bermondsea

[Protilers]

Went to start a job today in bermondsea......
its a rush job for a really nice woman......but her kitchen fitter is coming on MONDAY!!!!!
so no weekend for me!!!!!.....or my mate POTATOES'..........oh well.........

first thing this morning.......lets take the kitchen out.......and No the beer in the background was not from us........HONEST!!!!

we finally got the kitchen out and the old floor up...this is what we found!

some bright spark in the past decided that cutting 8x2 timber down to 2x2 and throwing in some joist hangers would be a good idea!........

and this is what happens when you do that......can you see that massive crack through the timber
where the timber is cut?...........we really need to do something about that!!!!!!!!

so here is my fix.......galvanised plates inserted into the joist angers (both sides) and then screwed

with 20 screws per side!!!!!!.......

we did manage to get the first layer of ply down.............but more on that tommorrow!

all the best

Lee

 

[Andy Allen]

whys your mate called potatoes?.....dose he 'chip' a lot of tiles...

pain of a job there, but im sure you'll get there...

 

[Protilers]

whys your mate called potatoes?.....dose he 'chip' a lot of tiles...

pain of a job there, but im sure you'll get there...

he is called POTATOES because he is irish.................and another mate of ours is a painter and me and POTATOES call him STRAWBERRY....because he is ginger (strawberry blond n'all!)........

and another running gag is me calling them two part of my 5 a day!!!!!...........

hehehehehehehe


they call me "LITTLE LEGS"........hehhehhehheheheeheheh

all the best

Lee

 

[Protilers]

Evening all...

here is what happened today........

here is the "sole plate" ..it is screwed to the 18mm timber from above and packed with wedges on the concrete side.....

what I did not take a photo of (stupidly) is on the concrete side we stuck down noggins with PU Adhesive at 400mm centres..as well as screwing down the joist rips...........and screwed through into the noggins and joists on the concrete part!!!!

all the first lot of 18mm ply is in and noggined......so all thet is left is to fill the "joins" in the ply with Silicon......like this:

run out of grey...(it was a tube bashing around in the van).....and moved on to white......that was the first layer of 18mm in...
then:

this is the second layer of ply...also 18mm....it bridges all the joints oin the first layer and is also given a Silicon expansion joint......

here you can see the two layers of ply!..all screwed at 200mm centers.......

job done and rock solid...........NEXT!!!!

all the best

Lee... from Protilers!

 

[Spud]

Very thorough prep work Lee, top job !

 

[Protilers]

Very thorough prep work Lee, top job !

thanks mate...It was what I feel was needed for this floor......next step will be kitchen fitted...(not by me)....tommorrow....and then I will come back and level the floor with SLC..then install a decoupler.....and then install 1200x600x 4.8mm thin tiles.......in polished white I believe........we will see........

all the best mate

Lee.....ps......are we still on for this week?

 

[Protilers]

Evening all......been back from work about an hour or so.........been back to this job today........and here is what happened!

The ply floor me and my pal installed was rock solid....but it was not flat...or level......so I started with the latex.....

Hours later it was dry but there was still a bit of a dip in the middle of the floor I was not happy with soooooo........

hours after that I went back to work and installed the ditra as it will save me hours tommorrow......and I have another job to go to on weds!!!!!! aaaarrrgggghhhh!!!!!

Managed to get that installed but half way through I needed to "jump" across the adhesive.......mid flight my head hit an upper unit in the kitchen!!!!......

OUCH!!!!!

nite nite

Lee

 

[Protilers]

I have no idea how you got that photo Bri!!!!.....it kept dissappearing on me!!!......but thanks for the like..........

I am spilling blood for thsi post!!!......hhhhahahahhaahahahahaahahaha!

nite nite!

 

[Minty913]

Thanks not even started or course or even in the trade
but learning loads from all your posts

Just wanted to say thanks

 

[Protilers]

Evening all........just home from work....here is how it went:

stupidly (or maybe due to concussion).....I forgot to take photos first thing.........or maybe I was in a hurry?

who knows...........but:

the job is complete all but the step to the french doors......I was going to a 90m2 floor tommorrow....but I have since found out that the builder needs another day!!!!!....DOH!!!!!

so I guess I will fix the stop in tommorrow!

all the best

Lee

 

[Protilers]

Thanks not even started or course or even in the trade
but learning loads from all your posts

Just wanted to say thanks

you are more than welcome......thanks for taking the time to post Minty!!!!

all the best mate

Lee

 

[White Room]

What Slc do you use Lee....

 

[Protilers]

What Slc do you use Lee....

I am using Weber Floor flex at the mo'........its good stuff mate!.......

all the best

Lee

 

[Protilers]

Evening all...another one bites the dust.........

It took the kitchen fitter 2 and a half weeks to fit 9 units......so there was a bit of a delay for me to finish!......anyway.......here is the final installment!!!!!

all the best

Lee