The three options available are – Grinding – very this layers or resinPCD (scratching up) 1 – 4 mm resin or screed Scabbling – 2 – 8 mm resin, screed or asphaltScraping – lifting up with a blade. There are no fixed rules so the above are very rough guidelines only. The best solution will be dependent upon the consistency, make up and texture of the material that is down as well as its bonding to the base surface. In this article we’re...
If yours is a profitable limited company, there is a good chance you will end up paying corporation tax. Something to look into, and maybe avoid a big tax bill is Rishi Sunak’s Super Tax Deduction scheme. Basically, if you buy equipment, you’ll be eligible to claim corporation tax relief that will come to about £2,470 for every £10,000 you spend - not to be sniffed at! If you could get your hands on new flooring machines and surface preparation equipment,...
Concrete, cement and dust from other construction materials contains crystalline silica which is recognised as the cause of several conditions, including silicosis, tuberculosis and lung cancer. The problem is that even low levels of dust inhaled over a long period of time can have devastating health consequences Lung disease – the dust enters the lungs and the fine minuscule particles embed themselves, and over time cause scarring. The immune system reacts but being unable to effectively attack the dust it inflames the...
You can be sure your customer has invoiced and been paid by the main contractor but will he pay you? Bad debt incidents like this can hinder or even derail your business’s progress. You must defend your business and in situations as described above, often the best form of defence is attack! In normal times a vigorous credit control regime with statements, emails, phone calls and text messages will put you at the front of the queue of your customer’s...
We can help you make small and med sized jobs very profitable. They tend to have bigger margins anyway without a long list of tenderers eating each other on price, completion and other sweet promises to land the job. More easily managed, less hassle and hic-ups and less strain on the cash flow. The downside risks are that costs can double with a short delay, particularly labour costs if you're having to pay digs. If a stubborn floor really needs a machine...
‘This machine just isn’t up to the job!’ Is a cry that we hear all too often. Rarely there may be a fault with the machine or a problem with the site’s power source but more often than not, when we delve a little bit deeper and ask the operator to describe the job that they are trying to undertake, it is patently obvious that they have got the wrong machine altogether. We are not decrying small machines, they do have...
Site power can be the bane of the flooring contractor’s life. 110 volts (or 240 volts dropped down to 110) has its limitations. For the really heavy duty jobs 110 volt machines lack the guts or the power to do the job, and even where they can just about get by, they can add many expensive man hours to the cost of the quote. For this reason, right at the beginning of the process, when assessing and compiling your quote make...
Across our hire fleet we have a good mixture of both new and old machines. We believe that machines well maintained are more reliable and out-perform badly maintained new ones. Sometimes, we are asked by customers and machine dealers to service and repair equipment they have purchased at ex-hire auctions, and if you saw the state of them, you’d have to feel for the poor guys who last hired them. Too many in the hire industry fail to maintain and just...
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