heres a couple of vids to show how to form the falls in a floor screed or wetroom floor
the guy is using dots and timber battens to rule off, i just use dots but its a good demo
hes just using sand for the demo...

hope it helps a bit with this kind of issue







ed

Hi Ed, it's nice to see methods used elsewhere. I like the bit with the triangles! Simple and effective.

what would be best to use instead of sand?

Cheers

Paul

Originally Posted by shogun rua

what would be best to use instead of sand?

Cheers

Paul

it all depends on how thick you need to go and how thin you end up and you are talking a concrete sub

I would have liked to see some water damped onto what looked like dry concrete.

Originally Posted by jay

it all depends on how thick you need to go and how thin you end up and you are talking a concrete sub

Hi,.

Its 5 sqms with the drain in the middle and a concrete sub.

Cheers

Paul

At first I thought "why isn't he bonding the drypack to the concrete with thinset", and then I realized this was just a demo in a training facility.

well spotted rob ;0)

this demo is purely just there to show how to lay.
obviously, preparing the sub base and mixes/admixes etc would vary from job to job

ed

Originally Posted by Rob Z

At first I thought "why isn't he bonding the drypack to the concrete with thinset", and then I realized this was just a demo in a training facility.

Did'nt notice either.

I like some of the methods with the float strips.....the one thing that is an issue is around the drain (again, maybe this is just for training), but he's riding the straightedge off of the drain, when the surface of the mud should be below the drain. Or, are there different drains in the UK than what we have here? Maybe that is the lower part of the drain and there is a grid that snaps on the top and raises the level?

Also, did he say in there that only ~4/5 mm of fall is need in that shower? I'm doing my metric bit with the calculator and see that's less than a quarter of an inch? (!)

But, as we say here, there is a man who has done this work once or twice before!

cheers for this post aston tiling helped me out.

I don't know why, but I always get satisfaction from screeding. Even though it can be heavy work, on the Aldi stores etc. we used to shift 25 tons of readymix every day. Nice to see old methods being taught, as Ed I don't use timber runners, I use compacted compo (mud) instead.

Thanks Ed.

Phil, the guy that taught me how to float mud referred to doing wall floats this way "It's interesting to put a sidewalk on the wall".

I still can remember well the first time I did a shower in all mud. I got done for the day and stood back and looked at that thing for what must have been 30 minutes. I remember thinking "man, I really did that!"

This sounds goofy, but one of the most rewarding things about doing mud work is when the plumber or carpenter tells you "Man, I set that (tpilet/vanity) with no shims...the floor was really flat and level!"

We had to render shower rooms for tilers for London underground and I'm going back 25 years+ and everything had to "Breadth, width and depth" as it was described and plumb, no complaints there then.

Where's the vids have you removed them?

Good to see havent done any screeding or rendering for a while now, as previously mentioned hard but very satisfying work!

Originally Posted by Minesacarling

Where's the vids have you removed them?

They're still there--page 1.

Must be my iPhone because there not showing up. I'll try off my pc when I get chance

Originally Posted by Minesacarling

Must be my iPhone because there not showing up. I'll try off my pc when I get chance

there still there

I went on the pc an could see them fine must be because iPhones don't have flash player. The videos were pretty good reminded me of my Salford collage days back in 2001