13May

How to Screed a Floor: The Complete Guide to a Smooth, Level Surface

Screeding a floor is a vital step in any flooring preparation process — whether you're installing tiles, carpet, vinyl, or other flooring products.   A professionally screeded floor ensures a level, even, and durable foundation that prevents issues with floor finishes later. In this guide, we cover everything you need to know about how to screed a floor, including traditional and self-levelling screeds, floor grinding, curing, and the tools that help get it done right.

Step 1: Preparing the Subfloor for...

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CFJ Awards 2024
12Sep

Contract Floorer’s Journal (CFJ) Awards

I’m Ellie, and my responsibility is to maintain Multi-Hire’s social media platforms.On Friday the 5th I had the privilege of representing Multi-Hire at an amazing awards ceremony on Friday, 5th September hosted by the Contract Floorer’s Journal (CFJ).There, I met some lovely friends and to top it all off; we won an award for ‘flooring in retail locations’ alongside our dear customer, Veatu Flooring for a contract they did in Leeds in which we supplied the flooring equipment.The CFJ don’t...

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Flooring Machine Delivery
06Jul

Deliveries, collections and why don’t we have more branches. 

Wow what a busy June, but then June’s supposed to be. But it was fraught with machines down awaiting weeks on end for parts, so quite a challenging month. Floor grinders were the flavour of the month, for several days we were almost ‘grinderless’. From large 3-phase, even to our ever-popular HTC450 Floor grinder which is the most popular 110-v floor grinder on the market.About 8 years ago, a management decision, stick with the one branch in Warrington, Cheshire. Being...

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Hire Flooring Equipment
21Dec

5 Advantages of Hiring Tools and Equipment

Those towering buildings in the city, the houses in the suburbs, and every establishment you step on will all just be deconstructed materials without the right tools and equipment. That is why individuals, companies, and contractors make sure that they have access to the proper construction tools before starting a project. The thing is, some of them find it hard to decide whether to buy the needed equipment or resort to tool hire.This article enumerates the advantages of hiring equipment...

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19Mar

Better to Repair or Replace Your Machines?

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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