Self levelling

[Chalker]

ive got an underfloor heating floor to lay. It's nuheat lopro. Basically it's a stuck down egg box type with 10mm pipes flipped in. That I have no problem with.
But I've then to cover it with thier fibre renforced self leveller. Which under normal circumstances would not be a problem. The trouble is this is laid at 25mm thick over a largish floor. There is a full pallet of leveller and I'm unsure how to lay it and mix it fast enough.

Will it be wise to hire a large mixer, or one of us mix and the other one lay.
Look forward to the replies.

 

[Flintstone]

What's the set time / working time on the leveller? At 25mm thick it's literally gonna bea bucket gone in no time

 

[One Day]

Wow! I've just ten mins ago had a call from my heating engineer. Ive got to go tomorrow and look at exactly the same thing, only he's said that there is 4 tonnes of the leveller!
Will report back tomorrow when i know what I'm dealing with...

 

[White Room]

Can you get it pumped in ?

 

[Chalker]

Wow! I've just ten mins ago had a call from my heating engineer. Ive got to go tomorrow and look at exactly the same thing, only he's said that there is 4 tonnes of the leveller!
Will report back tomorrow when i know what I'm dealing with...

Mine is only one pallet full.
Cold get screeders in with a pump, but will cost a minimum hire for the pump, plus their labour.
Mind you. By the time two of us and whatever gear I'm going to have to hire. This might not be that much of a saving to do it myself.

 

[hmtiling]

Biggest i did was around 85m2 with the depth varying from 2mm to 26mm. There were 3 of us and about 85x 25kg bags. We had 5 dustbins, 3 pieces of 500x500x22mm sterling board with heavy duty castors on and 2 large mixing drills. All water was ready and measured for 4 bag mixes and all bags opened ready to go. It went very well compared to the other half of the building that we hired a fluid transfer pump for and that seized on the first go

 

[widler]

How many bags is a pallet,40 ?
Bit of graft , a labourer , it would be done in a couple of hours

 

[hmtiling]

Biggest i did was around 85m2 with the depth varying from 2mm to 26mm. There were 3 of us and about 85x 25kg bags. We had 5 dustbins, 3 pieces of 500x500x22mm sterling board with heavy duty castors on and 2 large mixing drills. All water was ready and measured for 4 bag mixes and all bags opened ready to go. It went very well compared to the other half of the building that we hired a fluid transfer pump for and that seized on the first go

 

[LM]

Two mixing buckets, one getting mixed while ones being poured, two of you will do it in an hour or two tops.

 

[One Day]

How many bags is a pallet,40 ?
Bit of graft , a labourer , it would be done in a couple of hours

Come show me how Craig?!

 

[widler]

Really imp ? I laid 26 on my own on Friday , I started at 10.30, ,laid 16, had my lunch at 11.30 ish for a hour or so, and laid the other ten and was cleaned up by 2 waiting for the customer to come back from his run to lock up

 

[One Day]

160 bags - to get them mixed and poured in 8 hours - that would be one every 3 mins.

Realistically (and bear in mind I'm tiling this in the end so it's got to be perfect coz my tiling is pants)
I reckon it'll be 3 days with a labourer.
It's not one area either - multiple rooms and hallways.

I've done a pallet in 5 hrs myself - one open room though.

 

[widler]

3 days it should be like a ice rink
2 days easy with a lab including prepping my levels imo dave
Get yourself a 4ft speed skim with a pole , i swear it makes it ten times easier

 

[widler]

It could be the plasterer in me, getting things nice flat and smooth quickly

 

[White Room]

It could be the plasterer in me, getting things nice flat and smooth quickly

And starting at 10-30

 

[widler]

Ha ha ,i started the leveling at 10.30, i had stuff to do , like lay the all the matting

 

[One Day]

It could be the plasterer in me, getting things nice flat and smooth quickly

Definitely an advantage!
Do you also leave big bulges in the corners of the floors like plasterers do on walls?!

 

[widler]

Its the law my friend

 

[One Day]

I don't like working fast. Too much danger of beginning to sweat.
I don't like getting sweaty unless I'm having fun.

 

[White Room]

Ha ha ,i started the leveling at 10.30, i had stuff to do , like lay the all the matting

Thought it might be another heavy session the night before

 

[Andy Allen]

It could be the plasterer in me, getting things nice flat and smooth quickly

Lol ...I nearly choked on my co-co ...

 

[Flintstone]

Any good them large spreaders on a pole? I'd have thought they would just move it from one place to the other? I always pour it consistently then spiked roller it, I've not done vast areas tho

 

[One Day]

ive got an underfloor heating floor to lay. It's nuheat lopro. Basically it's a stuck down egg box type with 10mm pipes flipped in. That I have no problem with.
But I've then to cover it with thier fibre renforced self leveller. Which under normal circumstances would not be a problem. The trouble is this is laid at 25mm thick over a largish floor. There is a full pallet of leveller and I'm unsure how to lay it and mix it fast enough.

Will it be wise to hire a large mixer, or one of us mix and the other one lay.
Look forward to the replies.

I've just got back from site. Actually it looks a good system.
I read the instructions and the castellated panels (similar to beko-tec therm) take 10mm pipe.
The panels are intended to stick - they're sticky-backed - onto the subfloor, which in my case I'm going to level first.
The panel height is 15mm and they suggest a minimum 7mm over the top of the panel.
So it's 22mm ish, but the panel studs will take up the volume too.

 

[Chalker]

Yep.
The same one.

 

[widler]

Any good them large spreaders on a pole? I'd have thought they would just move it from one place to the other? I always pour it consistently then spiked roller it, I've not done vast areas tho

Wouldn't be without it local .
It's a 4ft speedskim , plasterers use them , well skimmers use them , not proper spreads