I had an apartment bldg that had a fire.many units are being redone.
One area of job progression I have questioned and see as improper.
They put down underlayment in kitchens before drywall trim and paint,
the floor was real dirty so I made them wash and prime it before doing
the Vinyl, and they still finished it before a lot of other major
work. Parts of floor failed as glue said "stay off for 72 hours" They
didn't , they didn't even use the extra underlayment sitting around to
protect it.

Now they want to put underlayment on a rear hall, before door and
window trim and paint, in rear hall no trim hits the floor, so doing
the floor last to me is logical, Isn't this stupidly backwards,
putting my floor again in jeopardy of damage, should I let them do it
this way or stand my ground and tell them Do Floors Last. I think they
just schedule however they feel when guys are free.

On May 23, 3:40*pm, ransley wrote:
*I had an apartment bldg that had a fire.many units are being redone.
One area of job progression I have questioned and see as improper.
They put down underlayment in kitchens before drywall trim and paint,
the floor was real dirty so I made them wash and prime it before doing
the Vinyl, and they still finished it before a lot of other major
work. Parts of floor failed as glue said "stay off for 72 hours" They
didn't , they didn't even use the extra underlayment sitting around to
protect it.

* Now they want to put underlayment on a rear hall, before door and
window trim and paint, in rear hall no trim hits the floor, so doing
the floor last to me is logical, Isn't this stupidly backwards,
putting my floor again in jeopardy of damage, should I let them do it
this way or stand my ground and tell them Do Floors Last. I think they
just schedule however they feel when guys are free.

Ok I forgot this, they said they needed the underlayment in the
kitchen to put down trim, is this true. Can't underlayment be butted
to trim later.

On May 23, 3:57*pm, ransley wrote:
On May 23, 3:40*pm, ransley wrote:

*I had an apartment bldg that had a fire.many units are being redone.
One area of job progression I have questioned and see as improper.
They put down underlayment in kitchens before drywall trim and paint,
the floor was real dirty so I made them wash and prime it before doing
the Vinyl, and they still finished it before a lot of other major
work. Parts of floor failed as glue said "stay off for 72 hours" They
didn't , they didn't even use the extra underlayment sitting around to
protect it.

* Now they want to put underlayment on a rear hall, before door and
window trim and paint, in rear hall no trim hits the floor, so doing
the floor last to me is logical, Isn't this stupidly backwards,
putting my floor again in jeopardy of damage, should I let them do it
this way or stand my ground and tell them Do Floors Last. I think they
just schedule however they feel when guys are free.

*Ok I forgot this, they said they needed the underlayment in the
kitchen to put down trim, is this true. Can't underlayment be butted
to trim later.

It works much better to trim on top of the floor

On May 23, 10:51*pm, "hr(bob) "
wrote:
On May 23, 3:57*pm, ransley wrote:





On May 23, 3:40*pm, ransley wrote:

*I had an apartment bldg that had a fire.many units are being redone.
One area of job progression I have questioned and see as improper.
They put down underlayment in kitchens before drywall trim and paint,
the floor was real dirty so I made them wash and prime it before doing
the Vinyl, and they still finished it before a lot of other major
work. Parts of floor failed as glue said "stay off for 72 hours" They
didn't , they didn't even use the extra underlayment sitting around to
protect it.

* Now they want to put underlayment on a rear hall, before door and
window trim and paint, in rear hall no trim hits the floor, so doing
the floor last to me is logical, Isn't this stupidly backwards,
putting my floor again in jeopardy of damage, should I let them do it
this way or stand my ground and tell them Do Floors Last. I think they
just schedule however they feel when guys are free.

*Ok I forgot this, they said they needed the underlayment in the
kitchen to put down trim, is this true. Can't underlayment be butted
to trim later.

It works much better to trim on top of the floor- Hide quoted text -

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I agree. Flooring always goes first, then molding on
top. If I were doing the work, I'd paint the ceiling,
walls, etc before putting down the floor. No need to
protect the floor that way or worry about accidents.
But if it makes scheduling work better, to do it the
other way around it's really not a big deal.