Hi guys got a LVT job coming up , and the floor is a mixture of floorboards and one area ceramic tiles, I was planning on plying up to tiles then screeding over the whole floor it's about 40 sq a hall kitchen and a room , I was going to use my compressor stapler to fix ply , but phoned fballs and they said I must screw the 6 mm ply as the when the screed drys it will shrink slightly and could pull the ply up so ....... 1 would you agrees with that 2 if so is there a good value auto feed screw gun you can recommend ! ( I did phone the spotnails rep and he said there taking one on at £ 260 plus vat
Nailing it would be fine as long as you used the right depth of nail for the ply, I use my coil nailer to nail ply before flex screeding over the top and never had a problem.
I've got a senco auto feeder it's spot on. Yeah kind of agree because if staples go through ply a bit too much , the compressive strength of flex screed like balls 700 is high so It could pull it up ply easily. Better to screw ply anyway mate I never use staples. May be slower using screws but it's the better method. If you get an auto feeder they are quite just as fast as using a stapler anyway.
I would prefer to nail it because I can attach to compressor , but don't want problems , do you use that method a lot ? and what nail depth for 6 mm ply ?
think spotnails have a 20mm now? not sure but they was demoing a new auto screw drive system to apprentices last week. I was to busy to look myself but was over hearing little bits.
Oh ok, was going to use mapei renovations er the ply perhaps I should see what they recommend , would you screw or nail ? I realise staples are out
to be perfectly honest, on that size of a job i'd nail it screwing it, even with a gun will take longer. Touch wood, ive never had a prob nailing before a flexi goes on top
Yep, but depends on what gauge staple used. Woodflooring has way more strength than a screed compound drying and we use ring shanks to hold plywood down . Main problem is the quality of the plywood tho
