The flooring is finally underway. The last little bit of sub-floor to complete (the landing) …
… is now complete.
Looks like patchwork? Well, that’s because it is. The kitchen sub-floor is done except for the skim coat. (The giant NO states to not add screws to this area as it contains plumbing.)
Skim coat, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a thin coat of cement added to the surface of the floor to fill in any cracks, knotholes, screw holes, etc. so that the flooring has a smooth surface to be glued upon. Here’s the bathroom skim coated.
Next, after the skim coat is tried (and, if need be, smoothed) is the glue.
What kind of glue? Blue glue! The last glue I had was green. This is ‘pressure sensitive’ flooring adhesive. Why? It allows the end user to pull up a piece of flooring and lay down another, such as when a tenant damages the floor with metallic spray paint while painting stolen bicycle parts to sell to get narcotic money or with burn marks from God-knows-what. The adhesive remains tacky so that the flooring can be replaced. The landlord remains equally tacky with his online comments.
This is the first flooring laid. Why the bathroom? I really wanted to install a working flush toilet. Lo and behold, after buying six #12 1-1/2″ screws from Canadian Tire for $4.00 to mount the toilet flange, the toilet was put in. Hurray for flush toilets!
Next comes the rest of the bathroom so that the shower can be installed. I was apprehensive of the shower connection. As it happens, I was about 1/16″ of an inch out. Luckily, the plumbing is a little flexible over several feet. In the mean time, I’ll let the flooring adhesive dry – usually 20 minutes to tacky.
But, I have a question about a seemingly Canadian company, the one who made the shower drain assembly. Did anyone attend grammar class?
Once the flooring is in place, a temporary fit of the shower pan and stare at it for a while.
