Karndean,any of you guys do it?

[Billy Hunt]

Hi guys,any of you lot offer a karndean fitting service along with tiling?.
I ask because alot of kitchen splashys i do the customer has chosen karndean for the floor as opposed to tiles.

I worked along side a couple of fitters this week and they say its pretty straight forward to do,setting out is just like tile set outs,most important area is getting the floor flat.

Anyone done the Karndean course or got any info on it?

Much obliged Billy Hunt.:8:

 

[Gazzer]

talk to Chrisroe, he fits it.

 

[Olz]

I dont know if its along the same lines but i've fitted the vinly laminte wood effect tiles from wickes for a customer in an undertairs recess, only about 3m2 though and only once, it had a self adhesive backing and the strips were trimmed with a stanley knife.

 

[tfs]

The sticky back stuff is nothing like Karndean in terms of quality and ease of fitting.

Like most things there are specs that must be met and sub floor prep requirements etc.

I have fitted Karndean tile and plank flooring and have experience in the other brands such as polyflor, amtico and harvey maria etc.

In my opinion a decent tiler can lay this stuff just as effeciently as he can ceramics.

Flat surface is true, and when laying over a plywood surface you need to feather finish the joints between each board with a compound. Ive heard of guys doing this before tiling over floors too.

I was looking into the karndean course a while back and found it to be rather pricey. I would reccomend attending the Polyflor course in luxury design floor fitting. They will go over the same stuff and are a bigger company with more experience. What you would find however is the same with any other compant they all say that specific products are to be used with there floor coverings etc, etc.


You will find info on the course at the polyflor website or Karndean international website

Polyflor Technical documents

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[Deleted member 1779]

Of course the other one out there is Amtico.


Amtico do a lot of floor coverings and its a bit pricey. £70 psm and £100 psm fitted

 

[chrisroe]

it fits well with a tilers skills and solves the ongoing debate of how to tile onto wood

 

[Billy Hunt]

Great replys,thanks guys.

 

[bathroomboy]

I installed a bathroom and tiling this year and the customer got this flooring which I declined to fit as it was so expensive and the instruction lituriture was about an inch thick wad of A4 probably was quite easy but wouldn't take the risk.

 

[doug boardley]

not done it myself,it's mainly carpet fitters round my way that do karndean, amtico etc

 

[tfs]

not done it myself,it's mainly carpet fitters round my way that do karndean, amtico etc

lol, some guys would be offended by that comment!

Guys in the flooring trade who dont specialise in just carpet usualy consider themselves to be floor layers. More skilled offering installation of lino, vinyl and carpet, sometimes wood and tile too.

 

[tfs]

lol, some guys would be offended by that comment!

Guys in the flooring trade who dont specialise in just carpet usualy consider themselves to be floor layers. More skilled offering installation of lino, vinyl and carpet, sometimes wood and tile too.

dont get me wrong though, some folks who do carpet only, really excell compared to floor layers. There is alot more involved with carpet than meets the eye. Like any trade there is basic and there is advanced most work done by your average carpet shop carpet fitter, is basic. Incorporating complex borders and hot seam welding with patterned design etc, etc is where the skill is.

 

[doug boardley]

my wife's friend had either amtico or karndean layed on conservatory floor and it's got bleached by the sun!

 

[chrisroe]

my wife's friend had either amtico or karndean layed on conservatory floor and it's got bleached by the sun!

what up in the lakes#

it only bloody rains up there

it is great stuff but reacts like lino with sun bleach etc but its great for wood floors

 

[doug boardley]

what up in the lakes#

it only bloody rains up there

it is great stuff but reacts like lino with sun bleach etc but its great for wood floors

it doesn't always rain up here, sometimes it p****s down!

 

[chrisroe]

to be fair i have never been to the lakes which i know is a waste as
a i like a drop of rain
b my bro runs a moutain equipment shop
3 i like a good walk
4 sorry i have just remembered i stopped off on route to scotland on a stag do

and it wasnt raining