It is just my area of the world or is it just slow?
We have not gotten a call in a few weeks and it is not fun. The bottom has fallen out for us-just no work going on right now. I have seen two new homes going up. So, me being me, I dropped in on the job site. The builder will install factory-finish flooring; they are getting it from a company that sells seconds...he is going to pick through the flooring.
They are still doing it off one wall, and I am not sure why they do it that way. I asked how long the wood has been on the job and they said two to three days...that is long enough? I just said, "Thank you for your time and have a good day." The next job has a crew that is going to install for $1/foot, with no plastic on the earth in the crawl space or concern for RH under the house. Okay⌠they just do not care and still say it does not matter.
The good news is I have been looking for a faster, better way to remove glue, drywall mud and just anything on the subfloor. I do not like to use the edger because it just screws it up. I was talking to Karl Stafflinger about some other matters, and we got on the topic of subfloor prep when he said, " Have you tried our tungsten carbide abrasive disc?" Well now, like my redneck mind can wrap around all that... So he then called it T-CAD. That was so much better Karl-it is best to know your customer. We went over what it can do and how best to use it. I asked to get one for a test run for a couple of tile jobs. We had to remove sheet goods, and as we all know, the glue and backing stick to the subfloor. I took out the "tungsten carbide abrasive disc T-CAD thing" and WOW is all I can say...it worked like he said, and from that day forth we now call it "The Teeth." Here are a couple pics of it:
It ate through the glue and backing like a soup sandwich. So we had a ton of stuff on a slab we had to get off on the next job for a tile install...yeah, we got out The Teeth. Dog if that thing did not make our task easy; I am not sure what you may want to call it, but you need to look at it if you do a bunch of subfloor prep. Plywood, concrete or whatever you need to prep, it will help your crews.
He also got me the disc for a right angle grinder so we can work tight areas and walls without killing our edger, but most of all hand-work with scrapers. Here it is:
Thank you for the help, Karl. Oh one more thing... Sorry if I misspelled your name...maybe we can call you T-Karl.
Well, we have to start early, this week we are helping Rodger Betty install some flooring. We are slow and he has 1,500 feet to lace in a water damage job, then sand & finish the total job-somewhere in the area of 2,000 feet. He is a flooring contractor about three towns over that we have helped a few times. He works alone and this is a big job, so, as always, friends help friends. You all be safe.
