Recent content by redwellies

Right, I think I'm finally getting there! The house is 3 years old, not 3 weeks (sorry if I made a typo, I've been marking too many essays). I've read the product literature for the adhesive and it doesn't state the need for either a primer or leveling compound, but I guess ringing the...

So we've put on the painted DPM, do I need a leveler, then a primer, then an adhesive? To be honest, I didn't realise it was that complicated. I thought that the supplier would sell me what I needed and that it would be fairly straight forward, but I seem to get different advice from...

It gets better! Mapei say we need either Mapeprim SP or Eco Prim T Flooring supplier (who sold us the adhesives etc) now says that we don't need either of those, but we do need a latex barrier to put between the DPM and the Adhesive. He's even willing to put it into an email so that I have...

Dear all, Some advice would be greatly appreciated. We're trying to install a solid oak floor in our house... well, our carpenter is! We were sold Mapeproof ESM (http://www.mapei.it/Referenze/Multimedia/2912_mapeproof%20esm_uk.pdf) as a DPM and told that we needed 2 coats of that and then...