Is there more than one way to skin a pig?
Well with floor preparation, quite often there is. Here are a few ways in which you can prepare a floor prior to applying a coating.
Well with floor preparation, quite often there is. Here are a few ways in which you can prepare a floor prior to applying a coating.
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...
‘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...
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...