Slc Method, My Way - How To Use Self Levelling Compound Properly

[White Room]

Same as me , I use doorstops on top of bankers around the edge if i do a S&C screed - which hasn't been for a while - .Without the doorstop , I think if you tamp your bankers in a bit more , making them a bit more solid and try not to lean on the straight edge , also try taking a bit less off each pull.

Diggy

I never tamp the screed, just bring the screed about 10mm higher and push forward with an ali screed rule with a small amount of body weight on the screed rule.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Dots - runners - semi dry - you've just lost 99% of of all viewing!

Some of the threads, comments and reactions to 30 year tilers forget that some of us had a life before tubbed adhesives.

Anyone suggesting a fire and slippers to me will get a response.

Respect to Mr Hobson.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I never tamp the screed, just bring the screed about 10mm higher and push forward with an ali screed rule with a small amount of body weight on the screed rule.

all in the stomach and shoulders Mark

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

when you're doing a sand and cement screed Dave, what do you use to screed off?, I've accrued a few various lengths of scaffold tubing over the years (straight!) and I find them superb for screeding off.

Well Gary & Doug i use aluminium screed rules i bought from rafina , it's in the hand /wrist movement i would say, ruling-off then rubbing flat to consolidate the mix , i have been doing it so long that i rarely need a plastic float, just start rubbing i can see low spots and just throw a handful of compo -on, and rub with rule ! then use these screeds to fill-in between and rule down to the level of these ....... hope that helps

 

[Diggy]

I don't mean tamp the whole screed , just the bankers so he doesn't dig into them when pulling the straight edge. Me , I still do with with the doorstops , flick out and fill as I go , got to say I'm pretty sure I can get a better SR than a lot of the tosh screeds I asked to tile these days.

Diggy

 

[Diggy]

Well Gary & Doug i use aluminium screed rules i bought from rafina , it's in the hand /wrist movement i would say, ruling-off then rubbing flat to consolidate the mix , i have been doing it so long that i rarely need a plastic float, just start rubbing i can see low spots and just throw a handful of compo -on, and rub with rule ! then use these screeds to fill-in between and rule down to the level of these ....... hope that helps

+1 , but I use the float , then finish with a trowel. Been a while since I've done one though , have to say it's a very pleasurable job to do ........once in a while 🙂

Diggy

 

[charlie1]

To everyone on here who hasn't got a clue what the devil they are talking about, all posts above, take note!! These guys are the real deal and know how to do it the right way, so educate yourself and try to understand there methods!! Good tutorial phil, thank you!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Out of interest , when you say fill with a feather edge , do you mean flood first , let set , then finish with the FE?


Sorry Diggy, I mean I fill each bay with slc then draw off with feather edge while still wet.

 

[ian158]

Dots - runners - semi dry - you've just lost 99% of of all viewing!

Some of the threads, comments and reactions to 30 year tilers forget that some of us had a life before tubbed adhesives.

Anyone suggesting a fire and slippers to me will get a response.


Respect to Mr Hobson.

Im guessing thats aimed at me...my comments were in no way meant to offend at all...just banter between old men and some not so old men :jester:


And on the note you mention...I will admit I am totally lost with what you guys are saying regards sectioning the area, also Phil I cant quite see what you are using there for runners..it looks like brass bars with solder joints, or am I missing something..when i've laid SLc..Ill admit not done a large area, i've just managed to spread as normal, pour float and work back to a doorway..I did some screeding years ago, and just dot and dabbed little mole hills with a long straight edge and worked from them..so you using the same principle ?


P.s and off course without your knowledge..how can the likes of Me/us improve without spending our hard earned cash at one of the tile courses !!!...Ill never get to the stage you are..ill just keep to the easier jobs !

PPS...I never use tubbed so i'm halfway there.

 

[steve187]

a good thread Phil, takes me back to the good old days of quarries on a semi dry bed, before dry cutters.