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RedHerring2
I hope someone can offer some advice. Sorry about the long story.
We recently (beginning of July) laid the concrete slab in the house, about 60 square meters, 6 cubic metres of concrete. ( A renovation project in France).
I was going to lay slabs straight on the concrete but due to the unsatisfactory levels I thought a screed and tiles would be a better but less expensive job.
I'm confident of doing about 1 cubic metre a day but the screed would have been about 2 cubic metres and having asked around, an acquaitance, who is English, working here in France as a mason said he could do it in one day, I would do the mixing and shifting, and he would want 150 Euros.
Well, half way through the afternoon he took a phone call and he had to rush off for a delivery of materials on another job. So I finished off the bay that he had started, which meant that just over half the floor had been done.
He returned at about 5 PM and suggested that he'd return tomorrow to finish it. The whole idea of paying someone else was to do it all in one day.
He returned the next day at about midday and we completed the rest of the floor by about 6 PM.
It looked OK and I paid him. I damped it down each day for about 3 days before walking on it.
Now 1 week later the join of the two halves is very obvious and along this joint the two halves flex under foot differently. There's about 2 square meters of the second half that is not adhered to the concrete subfloor and about 1 square meter of the first half not adhered.
I realise I'm going to have to lift these sections and try to redo them.
The prospect of redoing them doesn't bother me other than it's annoying but advice on procedure would be appreciated.
We recently (beginning of July) laid the concrete slab in the house, about 60 square meters, 6 cubic metres of concrete. ( A renovation project in France).
I was going to lay slabs straight on the concrete but due to the unsatisfactory levels I thought a screed and tiles would be a better but less expensive job.
I'm confident of doing about 1 cubic metre a day but the screed would have been about 2 cubic metres and having asked around, an acquaitance, who is English, working here in France as a mason said he could do it in one day, I would do the mixing and shifting, and he would want 150 Euros.
Well, half way through the afternoon he took a phone call and he had to rush off for a delivery of materials on another job. So I finished off the bay that he had started, which meant that just over half the floor had been done.
He returned at about 5 PM and suggested that he'd return tomorrow to finish it. The whole idea of paying someone else was to do it all in one day.
He returned the next day at about midday and we completed the rest of the floor by about 6 PM.
It looked OK and I paid him. I damped it down each day for about 3 days before walking on it.
Now 1 week later the join of the two halves is very obvious and along this joint the two halves flex under foot differently. There's about 2 square meters of the second half that is not adhered to the concrete subfloor and about 1 square meter of the first half not adhered.
I realise I'm going to have to lift these sections and try to redo them.
The prospect of redoing them doesn't bother me other than it's annoying but advice on procedure would be appreciated.