Floor skimming....

coastergirl

Hi all,

We need to skim our new kitchen floor. We've removed all the old ceramic tiles and obviously all the plaster/adhesive/whatever you call it stuff is stuck all over the floor.

The room is 3 metres x 2.7 metres, any ideas what my quotes should be come in at? And would a plasterer come in to just do that?

I've not had anyone in yet, as we only took the floor up yesterday. I'm in North Bristol if that makes any difference...?

Have considered doing it ourselves as hubby is quite good with DIY but have never done this before.

Unfortunately, we also need it done this week because our new kitchen is delivered on Friday so once we've assembled it all, we want to start installing it.

Any thoughts anyone? Thanks in advance,
Rachel

BobProperty

Whole load of questions and one comment first - the vast majority of tradesmen who are any good are booked up weeks in advance (I spoke to a builder/roofer a week ago - he is booked until next year), so I think you will be very lucky to get it done this week.
Now, what's the floor made of? What are you going to put on it as a floor finish? If you are getting a tradesman in to lay a floor then they will deal with levelling it as well (at a price of course).

coastergirl

Hiya

Thanks for replying...

The floor is concrete, and has a load of cement on it (in ridges where it must have been combed on when the ceramics were laid). We are hoping to lay laminate flooring ourselves.

I'm wondering if we might be able to do it ourselves. It really has to be done by Sunday/Monday so we can install this new kitchen.

(new baby is due in 4 weeks and can't do without a kitchen!)

Thanks in advance
Rachel

Andybez38

coastergirl wrote:

Hi all,

We need to skim our new kitchen floor. We've removed all the old ceramic tiles and obviously all the plaster/adhesive/whatever you call it stuff is stuck all over the floor.

The room is 3 metres x 2.7 metres, any ideas what my quotes should be come in at? And would a plasterer come in to just do that?

I've not had anyone in yet, as we only took the floor up yesterday. I'm in North Bristol if that makes any difference...?

Have considered doing it ourselves as hubby is quite good with DIY but have never done this before.

Unfortunately, we also need it done this week because our new kitchen is delivered on Friday so once we've assembled it all, we want to start installing it.

Any thoughts anyone? Thanks in advance,
Rachel

I think this would be an easy diy task. you need to buy some febfloor self leveling compound, mix it with water pour it on your floor and a light floating to help it self level. That shold be good enough.

Hillfly

Make sure you get waterproof / kitchen grade laminates. You will most likely have a lot of spalshes on the floor and ordinary laminates will curl at the edges when they get wet.

I'd re-tile it if I were you!

Good luck with the baby - we had our kicthen done just before the our baby was born - my God the stress of trying to get it done in time....................

Make the most of lying in while you still can!

BobProperty

Andybez38 wrote:

I think this would be an easy diy task. you need to buy some febfloor self leveling compound, mix it with water pour it on your floor and a light floating to help it self level. That shold be good enough.

That plus the right underlay for the laminate and you should be OK. I hope the laminate is OK to be used in kitchens?

coastergirl

Thanks to all for the messages, I'm going to chat to my hubby about doing this ourselves.

The laminate we are going for (I think) is Tile-Loc so it looks (vaguely) like tiles, rather than a wood laminate. It says it is okay for the kitchen so fingers crossed!

I would never recommend anyone to try doing all this so close to having a baby but unfortunately, we thought we had loads of time but they are going to deliver baby early so we've lost a few weeks. Its so stressful and I just want it to be sorted!

Thanks again,
Rachel (and Bump)

Andybez38

coastergirl wrote:

Thanks to all for the messages, I'm going to chat to my hubby about doing this ourselves.

The laminate we are going for (I think) is Tile-Loc so it looks (vaguely) like tiles, rather than a wood laminate. It says it is okay for the kitchen so fingers crossed!

I would never recommend anyone to try doing all this so close to having a baby but unfortunately, we thought we had loads of time but they are going to deliver baby early so we've lost a few weeks. Its so stressful and I just want it to be sorted!

Thanks again,
Rachel (and Bump)

Good luck to you & hubby and bump :T

nelly_2

the easiets way to lay self leveling is this and believe me I'm a lazy bastage so I know.

Pva the floor 1st leave it half an hour then do it again, leave it another half hour.

This does 2 things

1 it makes for good adhesion

2 It stopps the concrete absorbing the water out of the self leveling compound,so it can move around for longer.

Now mix the SLC as thick as Heinze tomato soup <-- I'm not kidding, then tip it on the floor and with a sweeping brush (preferably a soft one) push it into the corners and just generally make sure everywhere is covered and then just watch it do its thing. Sometimes if the floor is really crap you have to go over it twice after the 1st lot has set.

nelly_2

Kuztardd wrote: »

is this the kind of stuff?
http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/240707&bklist=

Yeah it is but you only need about 1 litre