Weight roller

Hey guys

What alternative (cheaper) weight roller would you recommend for like once you have put down karndean etc.. I have been told a grass lawn watered weight but I'm thinking if the water comes out somehow I'm ****ed...

Or is it not worth it just stick to the original flooring rollers?

Also I know they are expensive because of the weight of metal but give us a break

Any ideas would be nice

 

I mainly use a hand roller the ones with 3 wheels. Find they do the job but I do always us PS adhesive and most LVT's I do are under 30m2. Plus it keeps the boy busy!

 

Yeah I have one of those but when you doing 60m2 at a time in one room it's long and the boys get restless (bored)

 

What I mean in rollers I mean the 5kg plus ones or do you do bigger commercial jobs with the small rollers?

 

If I do over 30m2 or commercial vinyl I borrow my mates 70kg roller as im a tight git!

 

Snap snap snap

 

I use a 50kg roller. I add 4x5kg weights from a bar set to the handle if I need a 70kg

 

They come up on ebay from time to time. Only any good if your close I spose. Dont fancy the delivery charge

 

70kg roller for all my lvts. Unless it's a small area on 5th floor.

 

Same for me, unless its a room on the 1st floor

 

i dropped on a glider for £60, its fairly weighty, i find it does a good job on domestic vinyl if you wrap a offcut of carpet round the weight, i dont fit l v t so dont know if it would do or not.

 

Ebay is sometimes good but most if the time evil . I don't mind traveling upto 50 miles then it's long

 

Same for me unless my back goes getting it out the van.:-D

 

I have the 70kg roller, as well as hand rollers etc
imo you cannot do it 100% without it on anything over the size of a bathroom
i may get flamed for saying this
But if you aint using the proper tools, you aint doing it properly!
Simple as that

 

I've always used my 28kg roller. Because of the narrower width and smaller diameter the point load is nearly as high as a 70kg. More than adequate for lvt in my opinion........ and there's no temptation to leave it in the van.