Hi all, floorskills would like to start collecting vintage flooring tools. A couple of reasons why - 1- so anyone who comes to floorskills can view the tools and appreciate how we have progressed 2- So floorskills can preserve the tools. The tools have no real value, so people scrap them or you find them at a car boot. It would be a real shame if all the vintage tools disappeared or simply spend there life locked away in someones garage to be found many years later and simply dumped. FloorSkills would like to preserve these tools and show people what our grandparents used to work with. We would like to build a small museum that will have a range of tools that came around over the years. If you can help out / own some vintage tools then let me know. we are willing to purchase the tools. Im not looking for free stuff here. Donations would be even better !
Hi Matt I would love to donate some old tools to Floorskills.Unfortunately i unknowingly had already donated nearly all my tools to a van full of travellers who thought it would be a nice gesture if i donated half my side loading door as well. All jokes aside once your collection is in full swing can we have some pics. Tony
It's a ralwplug ralwbolt he used to hit it all day with a 4 pound club hammer drilling holes in steps, the old drills never had a hammer mode, and you didn't have tungsten tip drills So he used to have to hit it and turn it as he did it, to remove the broken stone in concrete, so it's a hand drill He worked for a company called safety tread in old ford London for 35 years as there outside fitter, going all over the country fixing nosings, that's all he did, used to fit the big carborundum filled or rubber filled nosings. For all the police stations, courts, train stations, museums, Government buildings, Used to cut back marble or grano steps with a club hammer and chisels, then bed them in sand & cement with an additive to make it dry quicker, Sometimes he used an angle grinder when I was older and cut them into tiny squares and then chop them off, I was about 14 when I went to a big department store in Manchester with my dad, older brother and my dad's boy(labourer) who was about 50, I still have the image of him now, He was cutting white marble on the stairs with an angle grinder, with just a hankie over his mouth as a dust mask He was covered in white dust, Every year we used to go to lewis bros and do another couple of flights, used to fit quarter quadrants on the landings where the marble had worn, It's strange every now and again I walk on sites and see nosing from his company, And think my dad must have fitted these, These are some I saw last year
