Advice on improving my latexing - Tile Advice

[Spacey]

I use mostly Uzin and some Ardex
Refuse to use Fball as there awful green primer 131 is terrible

I always use same manufacturers primer and compound

Best to stick to a system

 

[Old Mod]

Isomat? Looks ok I guess

Yeah it's @ISOMAT UK flowcrete 1-10
Useable as a finished floor and can be coloured if you like.

 

[LM]

Where are uzin tremco and fball at price wise lee?

It literally comes down to who you buy it from and how much Bussiness they do with that manufacturer, so the price of these products can vary a lot from that and promotions that may be running at any one time. These products are all priced to compete with each other at source at the end of the day. I find myself maybe using Tremco for several months then I could be over to Uzin or FBall etc etc from a different supplier for the next few months depending on these factors. The soft flooring trade goes through a hell of a lot more of these materials than hard tiling so the volumes that these products are stocked in by suppliers at different times can greatly change the price they can offer at any one time. I try to buy at least one pallet at a time as a minimum so I do haggle and shop about. In wide open areas a floor layer could typically lay 8-10 times more area in a day than a tiler so the volumes of material used is far greater hence the ability and necessity to haggle and shop around. What I would say is though that most soft flooring products aren't necessarily designed for hard tiling demands. A lot of the products have depth limits of 10-15mm per coat whereas typically a good 'tiling leveller can goto depths of 30-80mm because the demands of a tiler is for a flat floor whereas for a Floorlayer it's more important to a certain extent to be smooth more than flat, hence the comments above about laying soft flooring on 'glass'.

 

[Spacey]

I buy by the pallet

 

[hmtiling]

I buy by the pallet

Same same

 

[Old Mod]

My pallet's bigger than your pallet!

 

[Old Mod]

Explain @hmtiling!

 

[hmtiling]

Explain @hmtiling!

You swine! Hahaha

 

[Knifey_Spoony]

I like to mix a minimum of two bags a time if the floor's big enough, I push the poured levelling mix into the corners with a trowel then let it flow back a bit and then tamp it with a straight length of 2 x 1 pse, usually a 5 foot length does it for me.

Do you let the 2 x 1 rest on the ground and pull it or raise it up a bit and pull it?I tried doing that briefly with my spirit level but it didn't seem to work for me very well.

 

[Spacey]

Mate that's the worst screeding advice I've ever heard. It didnt seam to work coz it won't. Sound more like block paving lol

 

[Knifey_Spoony]

Mate that's the worst screeding advice I've ever heard. It didnt seam to work coz it won't. Sound more like block paving lol

Guy i worked for used to do it like that.His floors were very good.Was the reason i have done so little of it because he always did the latexing.

 

[LM]

We're back again to the differences between levelling a floor and smoothing a floor. On a DEEP pour that of which a tiler may have to install this method mentioned by Doug can actually be quite effective. Obviously it wouldn't work on a wash or quick skim so to speak.

 

[Spacey]

No not at all mate
apart from being strickly karndean/amtico install now
I'm also an qualified sports floor installer and I've laid deep comounds in many sports hall averaging 800 m2 plus to take resin sports suraces.
If these aren't level and smooth with in a strict tolerance that's a potential bill of 10s of thousands of pounds.

 

[Old Mod]

Well instead of puffing your chest out, explain your methods, so we can all learn from your experience and expertise!

 

[Kyle Knowles]

As @antonio says I'm just an apprentice always learning it's nice to hear other peoples methods