Yes and to get the quality of the wooden floor right for the circumstances, the underlayment right if need be, the installation method right, the width of the expansion gap right, the thresholds right, the undercutting of the architraves right, the "education" of the client right in regards of how to maintain the floor and their house climate, the "education" of carpet fitters right (they seem to think they can stretched the wood like they can the carpet) and I'm sure I left out a few other smaller bits. For the rest, yes a doodle ;-)
You missed out the main thing woody! MOISTER. reading moister in subfloors! reading moister in the product to be installed! Room humidity! Room temperature! And then understanding how all these work together to predict what the flooring will do. Anyone can fit a wood floor, but only a few people can fit a wood floor and take in to account what will happen 6 months along the line. Basically will the flooring to be looking as it should or will it of failed!
im still reading the intructions on the B&Q packs of wood i have here, hoping to install my first wood floor next week LOL
LoL - how about just measuring the floor area and then not adding saw-waste ;-) (Seen it happen) Matty, moist was tackled by Ian himself: getting the floor prep right - and I did mention house climate ;-) And I think there's no difference in taking note/care of moist with any type of floor-covering - don't think anyway lays a carpet, vinyl on a brand new concrete floor? But of course you're right: every thing starts or falls with proper preparation, including moist checks
LOL, you would think not but i would say 90 % of fitters do so. All new builds for instance now tend to come with fitted carpets and vinyl. I am yet to see a Surface DPM used. !
Going out to sites every day to watch fitters install flooring for there NVQ's! You will be amazed what i get to see. I take it your in the 10% who use dpm's bladerunner?
