Laying hardwood floor

[namtrak]

The floor looks great - winner!!

More pics when its all done and dusted

[Wongo]

Pic 1 shows the subfloor space.
Just make sure that there is plenty of sub-floor ventilation. If water gets under the floor and can't get out, or if there is no air flow to dry the water, you will have all sorts of problems with cupping and board expansion.

FIL did point out that the soil was a bit damp. Maybe I will get under to have another look on the weekend. Thanks for that mate.

I am going to do another 2 bedrooms and get someone to sand and oil it.

[Gaza]

Scot,

That floor turned out great for liitle out lay. Nice Job.

I would be putting vents in ASAP if the soil is wet as the floor will pick up the mosiuter and expand lifting the bearers and joists up as it goes.

Hope you have recovered by now after your 3 days of hard labour.

[Fuzzie]

Hi Wongo,

Did you really mean to say 'oil it'? I'd suggest water based poly would be a better option for an indoor room. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished result, it looks like you had quite a time patchwork quilting the good bits of flooring!

[Wongo]

Did another 2 bedrooms on the weekend. Amazingly I am still alive. The timber is WA Karri.

All the 3 rooms will be sanded and polished this Friday by a forum member. I can’t wait.

[Wongo]

It is all finished. I had Larry McCully and John over to sand the floor on Friday. What a great job they did. Thanks Larry.

I put a coat of sealer and 2 coats of AquaMax water based Satin finish myself. I am very pleased with the outcome. The floor looks a million dollars.

[Gaza]

toby aquamax is one of the best water based finshes you can buy it goes on realy thick and gives a great hardwearing finsh. a lot of sanders dont like to use it as it goes on to slow being thick.

you should go to synteko at chastwood and buy SWBO a nice mop to look after your handy work.

The NSW mixed hardwoods look great it makes the WA KArri look a bit simple.

[Dusty]

Nice looking floor there, Wongo. You must be rapt!

Great work. Larry (and John) It's always good to have a squizz at someone else's hard work. Keep up the high standard. The industry needs it.

[Dusty]

toby aquamax is one of the best water based finshes you can buy it goes on realy thick and gives a great hardwearing finsh. a lot of sanders dont like to use it as it goes on to slow being thick.

you should go to synteko at chastwood and buy SWBO a nice mop to look after your handy work.

The NSW mixed hardwoods look great it makes the WA KArri look a bit simple.

I've heard some good reports regarding this waterbourne product (Aquamax) and it's worth the effort with the application. Although, it couldn't be any worse than applying an Oil Modified Urethane on a hot day and it's starting to go off.

By the way, what's a SWBO? Sheila With Body Odour. ??

[Gaza]

I've heard some good reports regarding this waterbourne product (Aquamax) and it's worth the effort with the application. Although, it couldn't be any worse than applying an Oil Modified Urethane on a hot day and it's starting to go off.

By the way, what's a SWBO? Sheila With Body Odour. ??

Dusty,

You have to stop using those old school finshes come over modern side, we are now using waterbased 85% of the time now and synteko classic in place of poly, classic is a two coat two part system that goes hard as nails when it drys does not leave any air bubbles in coat and does not require wet edge, it just flows on really smooth, you can apply two coats in one day.

old school poly and oil modified are killing you with thoese fumes even just driving aroung with them in your van.

up here we are doing very high quality work for top designers around and my guys know what we expect, they are now using the same products on there standard private jobs because the result is always first class.