I didn't realise it was as recent as that. Learn something new everyday. Love this forum for new info.
The client emailed me today and has told me the tiles are brown and cream in colour...she's worried and wants to know her options...from my perspective i don't want to lose a 5 day job the week before xmas so its tread carefully methinks...
I know what I would do but that doesn't help you. They need to be uplifted before you screed as you already know. How its done is something you need to think about without stating the obvious. I'll freely admit I have lifted them a few times myself so not to lose the job but then again now I refuse to do it even if I lose the job.
I'm going to back to the clients Saturday afternoon to have another look and have a chat with them...i'm sure he mentioned he'd consider taking them up himself...
Did the revisit this afternoon, the tiles were like a chessboard, brown and cream in colour, took one tile up and it was quite bendable and was stuck down with a cream coloured adhesive, looked just like Sika 5500s parquet adhesive in colour, definitely not bitumen emulsion. Think the customer is taking them up tomorrow
The blocks the clients have bought are a little peculiar, they have holes and what looks like dowels in the ends and and a dowel in the side as well, i'm sure they will be fun to lay...
They have both i'll take a few pics tomorrow and post them up, nice weighty pitch pine blocks in fairness, but its gonna cost the customer quite a lot extra for us to scrape the things clean before we lay them. Hopefully we'll be able to suss out how to lay them to pattern without cutting off all the dowels :-(
Got this easy 5 day project finished in a nightmarish 6 days, didn't realise till we were half way through scraping 30m2 of 300 x 70 x 30mm pitch pine blocks that there were 2 different thicknesses with several m2 of material being about 3mm less thick...nightmare, had to use them as well otherwise there wouldn't of been enough material to finish the job, the dowels were a pain as well, although they pulled out ok with a pair of pliers. Had to absolutely batter it with a zirconia P24 to get it anywhere near flatted off, the sanding machine was going up and down like a bl**dy boat for an hour, but it did look pretty good when it was finished, although there was a blemish or two with some dodgy blocks the customers were happy which is what its all about...
Cheers UV, really hard one that, must of took about 3mm off the surface to get it decent and flat, even then there is still a blemish or two but thats what you get with reclaimed material,
