Meet ups

Any one any tips on how to keep your joints on you latex wetter for longer been screeding a 90sq meter room 2 bag mix but when came to meet up with the first mix had already started going off ending up in a few hours of feather edging the next day

 

Do you use a spiked roller mate.

 

And did you prime ?

 

Meet up where? Harrogate next week?

 

Lol have 1 mixing and 1 on the floor at all times and get it down fast !

 

Yep spiked roller and was primed with 121 was putting on with the rake so was going down quite rapid

 

Green Bag ? 300 ? what was it

I laid some green bag last week, and had trouble scooping it out of the bucket

 

Mapei trade it was more the length of the run before I could get back on it

 

I screeded a 100m2 room with another lad I know and we had the same problem, we were both screeding and using a roller.

What he did is wait for the screed to have gone off enough to walk on then he scraped over the whole floor with the edge of his trowel getting rid of and higher bits etc. it actually worked a treat and it was a lot easier then rubbing it down when it's fully set

 

I screeded a floor the other day and realised I'd forgot my trowel! I ended up just spiking it all, ended up one the best floors I'd screeded!!

 

I'm thinking of getting a 65L bucket for large floors so you can mix up 2 bags at once.

 

We use black bins on big floors. Got 2 now full of karndean design strips.

 

That would be heavy I'd say a good 70kg

 

Although expensive, the i-tools, or similar, system is hard to beat. Comes on a trolley so easy to move about from one area to the next.

You can mix 3 bags easily (4 if you're careful - or your name is Matt!) so less likely to get problems with meet ups.

 

i have the bins aswell wicked for larger jobs

 

For large areas get it pumped miles better.

 

I'm not paying