"anthony james" wrote in message
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"Jim S" wrote in message
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I think you are worrying to much.

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Maybe, but we rented a garden roller anyway. On reflection i'm not
sure it was required. We were laying DaVinci tiles with the 'contact'
adhesive and i'm amazed how easy it was - the tile laying went really
well.

The latex levelling compound however.... certainly didnt self level
and we failed to work it enough to get the trowel marks out. We woke
on Sunday to a floor that was significantly worse than it was when we
started on Saturday morning. 4 or 5 hours troweling on Ardex Feather
Finish sorted it out, improved our trowel skills and left us both with
blisters. We ended up with a very smooth floor with slightly gentler
undulations than we started with. Next time we'll just use the
feather finish.

Agreed on the "contact" adhesive.

I've laid Karndean flooring in two bathrooms now. You can see one example
result at
http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.str...orfinished.jpg

The first one (in the picture) used the old "high temperature" adhesive.
This was VERY wet and VERY messy and, like you, I hired a garden roller as
it seems nobody has heard of a proper metal sectional floor roller here. I
spent most of the time wiping off excess adhesive. It think I probably used
the wrong trowel.

The second one (using "planks" rather than "tiles") was more recent. They
had introduced the new "pressure sensitive" adhesive and that was an
absolute pleasure to use. I got the proper special trowel this time from my
local flooring supplier. I just used a small hard hand roller in places but
I didn't feel it was really essential. No signs of lifting yet and there are
plenty of pointy "corners" as it was laid in a diagonal arrangement.

Regards,
Simon.