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Hello there guys trainee floor layer. Learning to fit carpet and lvt (amtico/karndean ) from Suffolk here. Just come on here to see common problems and what sort of stuff you guys are into . A guy at my work told me to see if my company can send me one the floorings skills course with matt I belive so will see if I have any luck. Just done the fball product 2 day course.. its all about selling you there profit realy although I learnt some valuable things about subfloor moisture etc.. got the karndean course coming up next month. So just here saying hi and I do realy most posts. But not much I could assist anyone on at the moment. You guys are very knowledgeable n good to read the posts

 

Hi and welcome mate, glad to someone new coming into the trade.

 

Hello there guys trainee floor layer. Learning to fit carpet and lvt (amtico/karndean ) from Suffolk here I'm English .. Just come on here to see common problems and what sort of stuff you guys are into . A guy at my work told me to see if my company can send me on one of the floorings skills course with matt I belive so will see if I have any luck. Just done the fball product 2 day course.. its all about selling you there product realy. ...although I learnt some valuable things about subfloor moisture etc.. got the karndean course coming up next month. So just here saying hi and I do read most posts...But not much I could assist anyone on at the moment. You guys are very knowledgeable n good to read the posts

 

Thanks mate. Wrote it twice as I type it fast on my phone n it hardly made sense and stuff was wrongly spelt haha. Where all you guys from and where abouts do you work ?

 

welcome to the forum, good time to be getting into the trade, prices on the rise and plenty of work out there if your good enough.

 

Welcome John, good to have you on here. I'm from Preston, Lancashire

 

To wind you up

 

Heat gun to cut round pans etc? I normally scribe everything in. I realy like it and I think flooring is a great trade sometimes a bit hard on my knees . Just juggling what knee pads to wear keep buying some to wear to feel what's best. Using the foam snicker inserts doubled up with the red backs at the moment working realy well exept there so heavy lol. Don't know what you guys are into seems like alot of you do commercial . As I work in the domestic side of my company

 

And you don't. Hmmmm. Kev, RPB or Rich has spent a lot of time at Karndean and especially with Neil Andrew and as you know when we did the border on Advanced we used a heat gun to gently bend the border. Rich has been diversifying from the being in the fire service to becoming a floor layer and needs all the help/advice we can give him. Me and Daz met up with him at Harrogate and he's a really nice bloke.

 

Heat guns good for drying your latex and heating up the bubbles in your sheet vinyl