I tend to shy away from skimcoating OSB or chipboard floors. The moisture in the leveler can make the wood swell sometimes and you wont see it happen until after the leveler has dried. A light primer can solve the swelling problem sometimes but not all the time. Like many others in the comments, I have never put leveler down with a notched trowel. I like to dust the floor and use my 20 inch float trowel backwards holding down on the trowel ridge to sweep the floor and it usualy only takes once to get up tile residue. As always good video Reuben!
Great video! A couple years ago I had to do this over a plywood floor that connected to a concrete floor. One nice thing is that it is not that physical of a task. We had the same type of situation as you where we could Busy ourselves in other areas while floor patch dried. Keep up the good work
Sprinkle a little dry patch on the floor before you scrape and sweep. The dry patch helps with tacky old glue. Glad to see you vacuumed under the walls. And it looks like you are using a larger trowel now. Way to go In the end we would have coated the floor for a 3rd coat after the sanding. Just to get a glass like feel. Also we have to use a vacuum with a hepa filter and a shroud around the buffer. Its awkward at first but it does control the dust in the air. But a good job as always
Usually , we toss a peice of 1/4 " mahogany over chip board with staples ever 4 inches and every 2 inch on seems. Patch all seems 2x and your done. None the less Reuben, this is a great idea. I see your logic.
Wow..never thought.we just throw lil powder down.gets rid most the sticky..then scrap an sweep an float an float.gonna have to try..thanx..great video, an idea..
The old-school way to prep a floor with sticky tile adhesive is to though dry floor patch all over the floor. sweep the patch into the floor next scrap a small area with a carpet spreader then sweep the scraped area and do the whole floor like this. It will get the floor clean and deactivate the tile adhesive. Finish up with a wet coat of floor patch.
shawn moore it sure would, and I would love to do that, however people around here do not like to pay for underlaymentfloor prep is $.35 a foot with the floor patch included, so I do not have to buy the patch and it’s only $.35 rather I put two thick coats or 5 thin coats
@@FloorsbySouthernboys So, are you saying you only get .35¢ per sq. ft. for skim coating the floor whether you put down 1 coat or 5 coats? Or, are you saying you get .35¢ per coat?
@@FloorsbySouthernboys $.35 sq ft for floor prep?? That room is 340 sq ft.....So you only made about $120.00 and still had to come back the next day to do another coat of mud? Did you buy materials out of your pocket? What's the point of being in business for that little money? After you factor in your business expenses you're making less money than a fast food worker. You should be making at least around $500 - 800 a day or $60 - $100 an hour regardless if it's prep or installation. You're a business, not an employee.
will inthearea I hear you, no I did not buy the mud out of my pocket, and yeah definitely didn’t make no money on that prep, but nevertheless it Hass to be done
I just installed vinyl Thursday in a second story apartment and had to remove the old vinyl and it picked up a lot of the g creek and i had skim coat it like 4 times do u recommend this for g creek
I actually install in Phoenix, and i know you did work in tucson. Just curious to see if theres a price difference from here in az to where you are now
David Cates certain things are less and certain things are higher paying ,However I am not making the money that I was in Tucson, the money is definitely better in Arizona
I apperciate the reply. I would love 1 day to maybe pick your brain and learn prices more. Im pretty wet behind the ears still and do nothing but apartment complex units. Im a small company thats employed 4 guys so far all family. But were installing 1200 sq ft of laminte click/glue down plank and 400 linear feet of base a day
not sure i have been working on this job for 5 days prob about 1.5 to 2 hrs not counting the dry time, i have let it dry overnight both times since i have had plenty of other things to do on this job
I only use ardex feather finish for patching. I wonder what the price difference is between this much floating and this many bags of ardex opposed to mereply( mohogany) underlay .
