You'd better not become a star

The following weeks I am going to install a floating hardwood floor in my home.

Have not done this before, but I think it will be a breeze compared to the prep work.

I got an angle grinder to cut away the marble skirtings of the existing floor. You will not believe the dust it creates! It is like standing in front of an industrial fan and throwing flour in the air. That foggy. Now I have to fill the voids with quick setting mortar.

Give me a gig any time.

They make wet saws for that. With attached vacuum for spillover. Keeps the dust to a minimum, but you should still wear proper filter mask to avoid inhaling that stuff.

I learned a long time ago that if any job starts getting to be out of hand like that, I stop and research what it is that I'm doing wrong. The pros can tell me what particular tool they use, etc.

Anyway, damage done, project moving on, take your time and have fun with it, do a great job!


--Mac

If it doesn't have a remote control, I pretty much leave it alone. My wife started a project re-doing our kitchen. We, mostly she, have replaced the stove, microwave, dishwasher, counter tops and still re-doing cabinet doors. It's going on a year now. We generally start something, realize we need help, and call an expert to finish it.
I'm waiting right now for an insurance guy to come and assess damage from floods a couple of weeks ago. Looks like we'll get new carpet.
October set an all-time record for rain here, with around 30 inches, most of it in a week.
Boo, you could come down here and build a brick wall around the back of the house is case that ever happens again. We put out sandbags or it would have been much worse.
We were actually lucky as a lot of the nearby neighborhood was hit by tornadoes that week.
After a week of beautiful weather, we're having an extreme cold spell now. Temperatures won't get much about 60 today.
DonM

I know. but these things are designed to cut stone, marble etc and you have to move the material TO the cutter, not the other way round.

The problem was that the marble skirtings were attached to lowest side of the wall. They are like strips, about 2 feet wide at the the most, 2,5 inches high and less than an inch deep. About 1/3 of their depth is inside the wall. The wall is brick, and has a mortar coat comprised of a mixture of sand, cement and white marble powder, and painted on top.

So I cut about 1/8th of an inch above the skirting, to "break the bond with the mortar above, and then with judicious use of a hammer and scalpel, the skirtings come out easily, without damaging the wall above.

Our existing floor is called "mosaic" and is exactly like this photo from the web, only the stuff between the white stones is black, you can also see the marble skirtings on the side. You will see detailed photos when I finish.



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