unusual flooring job

[joiner1970]

Hi all, not had a chance to look at the website for dinesen but yes you are right that's who supplied it all. Apparently the client has this stuff in his shops. Had fun today we had to fiddle about ans swap around the two boards we laid yesterday we weren't happy with the setting out. Now its dead square etc and were happy [big grin]. 4 of us today and we managed to fit all the longest boards out into the entrance hallway so now its just the shorter main room boards to lay. I've gotta cut in a floor socket box tomorrow should be fun.

The boards feel really dry but I don't know the exact moisture content. I know one thing they are beautiful and really well machined, they knock together really nice and are dead straight which I didn't expect.

Unloading tools this morning and the client spotted the festool boxes and said oh that's good you've got festool you MUST know what you're doing  [big grin]

Will post another pic if I have time later.

 

[Deansocial]

looked at the site and they do an oak with all te splits stitch which looks nice

 

[joiner1970]

The client told me that they can supply these boards even longer but they have to be tapered because of the shape of the trees. I haven't got a clue what finish it is they are using that's not my forte, I had a look and it says on some bottles "soap" others say "lye"  ??? anyway we are not sanding or finishing that's down to someone else.

These pictures don't do it justice it really is a stunning floor I bet it will look amazing when its sanded and finished. Im not looking forward to putting in all the pellets  [scared]  [laughing]

We've only fixed at the ends and centre at the moment and will drill the rest at approx 700 centres using a string line when we are finished laying it all

 

[Hookie]

Nice, large, but down to earth job Chris... You are doing well there. Just keep 'plugging' away.  ;D

I would be 'board' stiff myself, but really my knees wouldn't cope!  [not worthy]

Cheers

Wurth Loadsmore  ;D

 

[tiralie]

These pictures don't do it justice it really is a stunning floor I bet it will look amazing when its sanded and finished. Im not looking forward to putting in all the pellets 

Chris:
Amazing floor and boards. Thanks for the introduction to the company. The photo's of interiors on their website are beautiful.
Tim

 

[joiner1970]

We are on the home straight now most of the large boards in now now it narrows down into a small corridor. Couple of pics one of the whole floor and one of the floor socket I had to cut out on Friday. I used my ts55 and a jigsaw to cut it out and managed to keep the cut out piece to fit into the flap/cover so the grain matches. It looks a bit wobbly in the picture but take my word for it the edges are perfect [big grin]. The full fitting cannot be fitted until the floor is fully sanded so it can be set up flush with the floor. You can see how crisp the pellet/plug holes are in the second photo the drills supplied with the floor are really good quality (don't know what brand).

Another thing to note with this floor is that all the loose knots have been fixed with some sort of resin at the factory so no worry of them falling out.

 

[joiner1970]

We have finished laying most of the floor now just one small cupboard/room but we are waiting for a floor access/man hole cover that we have to fit in that bit. Today we finished laying in the main room and started sanding off the plugs with my Metabo ROS they sand down really nice and almost vanish after all the fuss we made string lining all the holes  [laughing].

Photo below of the floor socket almost finished, down to the floor sander/finisher now to do his bit now. When its all done the client has promised to email me some photos.

 

[Rob-GB]

Very nice work, love the socket detail (grain match) I have tried to do this on clear finished floors when having to cut around rad pipes etc, you know dovetail cuts with a fine saw, but the shadow line/gap on the socket fitting looks right. Can I please borrow that pic to show future clients?

Rob.

 

[joiner1970]

No worries Rob, I cut it out with my ts55 so that I wouldn't damage the centre peice so the grain matched. It's not finished either it will look sweet when its fully fitted. The socket is made up of a back box which I cut into the chipboard below the wood floor. Then the socket part fits into that with 4 bolts that act as legs, you wind these down into the back box to level it all up then the top flap part and surround screw to this.

Really nice floor I'm glad I got the chance to fit it makes a change from the usual hardwood floors we do.

 

[promhandicam]

That really looks the mutts Chris - well done!

 

[JLB builders LLC]

Thats would take a lot of Dominos  ;D

 

[joiner1970]

Had to go down and finish off the floor today, one job was to fit a nice manhole cover to a small room/cupboard. The cover supplied was the type that you normally screed in, it was deep with angled sides. Anyway with a bit of fiddling about I managed to fit it and trimmed the off cut to fit into the lid same as the socket above really but bigger.

I got to use my new toy I treated myself to last week, a PS300 jigsaw. I had to bevel the back edges of the 35mm flooring by about 20mm so it would drop in to the cover. I find usually when I do this with a Bosch or similar you never have a perfectly straight bevel but I was surprised today the PS300 cuts really well on the 45 absolutely perfect in fact  [big grin]. The PS feels much better in the hand to my Bosch GST 150 CE which I got last year. Its smaller and the switch is easier to shut off one handed if you have to which is good, I found with the Bosch you really needed to use both hands.

As soon as the floor is sanded and finished hopefully I will get some photo's from the client and I will post them here.

 

[JLB builders LLC]

Great, Thanks for fueling my Festool jigsaw gas  [smile]