As the title says I'm just curious as to avoid these happening. Basically I'm doing a school and all the corridors which are getting replaced have these right down the centre and it looks awful. The sheet in question is polyflor xl and is going to get some serious polishing and because they're corridors long Tom is the only way to stick them. Also the reason I'm asking is because there is a lot more potential work and I want to make it stand out from the rest of the work carried out in the past. Cheers for any advice given.
Trowel marks = late placement . Get it down while still wet and give it a good roll. Use primer on top of screed it really helps.
Not a fan of putting vinyl in wet especially if it's primed and using a ps it will bubble like a mother f£&@?r. Think rolling the adhesive will be the way forward.
I think the opposite ? PS dries on the surface & has to be left to go tacki before you lay on it. Acrylic can be left to go slightly tacki but is a wet set adhesive so needs to soak in so a primer would prevent this ?
No it won't prevent it , the whole point to this topic is the lad wants to be able to spread adhesive long tom style and not get adhesive lines, so he needs a method of a long open time for adhesive. Priming will do this
How long is this long tom anyway ? Best way is get your run out the way glue the whole corridor & walk through the glue in spiked shoes vinyl in hand drop the lot in bish bash bosh
Haha would love to be able to do that but they're all ranging from 15m to just short of 20m, be a bit of a nightmare to do that as we all know xl isn't the most forgiving sheet under stress not to mention it weighs a ton between 2 of us.
Fballs used to do a tape that you glue up to. Then when you peel it up it leaves a nice clean line when you fold back the sheet to glue the opposite side. Lines a normally caused by glueing over the previous glue line, if that makes the slightest bit of sense lol
Yeah it went spot in tbh mate rolled the lot but when going up to the adhesive which was down and dry I didn't go over it just went upto it as like you would skirtings, not a dry line in sight:thumbs
