Hammer time

After putting down a full box of gripper onto concrete floor yesterday I’ve decided that my old heavy hammer needs to go. My arm was killing. I know I could/should of glued them but it was a shop job and they hadn’t costed for glue or extra time taken and charged customer for concrete gripper.
What hammers are people using?

 

Full boxed? Sod that, you need a concrete nailor...

 

Or an apprentice

 

got one of them, but he had a day off, bad planning on my part.

 

I don’t nail enough to warrant buying one. I normally glue gripper or the off times I’ve nailed before it’s been a couple of rooms at the most

 

As to your original question, i use an estwing, can't remember if it's a 20oz or 24oz

 

Estwing here also. But a full box of concrete is going to give you arm ache whatever you use.

 

Use Flexyfix. A 3mm bead and you will get around 40lm of gripper on the ground ready for stretching in 15-20 minutes.

 

The best !

 

This is the best choice!

 

We only use flexi fix on concrete now. It’s not worth nailing.


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That’s what I’m going to start doing. I’ve bought a load of flexi fit and if I need to glue a job and it takes longer then so be it. The shop will have to allow for it.
I never nail my own private jobs so I’m not going to nail shop jobs


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Why is that ? I stick it if I cant get a good fixing, but normally its ok.
Sometimes I flexi & nail

 

Just don’t ever do it now. Most the concrete floors we fix into have ufh. The rest seem to be power floated amd rock hard. Sometime we get a soft screed and il nail the normal gripper and stick but I don’t buy concrete gripper or dual purpose so don’t bother. Just habit over anything else.


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I see, we still nail on UFH. Its unusual for us to see powerfloat, although we do see it now and again.

 

We even stick the gripper over chipboard with ufh. I know the nails can’t go through but I also know builders so just don’t ever risk it lol


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If we’re in a rush and it’s only one room, will always try and get a nail in the concrete. But I love flexi fix. Literally never fails and sets so fast.....send free merch to merit flooring rewmar if your listening


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I normally just glue to concrete, unless i know it's just concrete with nothing under it, then I'll nail it with the nail gun, just to make sure, especially if I'm using a power stretcher