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Posted by matt4557 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 11, 09 at 16:52
| I have my kitchen down to the wall studs and have a scheduling problem. I have a friends house I can use for the next week so that I can move my family out of the house while I finish the new floors. The problem is that all the city inspectors are on a several day seminar and cannot inspect the electrical work and allow me to close the walls up. It will cost me near $1,000 to move to a hotel not to mention pet boarding. So, I am considering going ahead with the floors before insulation and sheetrock.. They are pine with waterlox as a finish. I can see the obvious problems involved in this schedule but a hotel stay will break the budget and I have no family nearby. Any suggestions on how to protect against the dust that will be made as I move on to sheetrock? Words of advice/encouragement? Thanks. |
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RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| I would get a very cheap rubberbacked carpet, in the range of less then a dollar a sq. ft. Loose lay the carpet upside down in the kitchen. Dust from drywall is not going to be as great a problem as traffic from workmen's boots and mud slopped on the floor. When you're all done roll up the carpet and sell for 25 cents a foot. |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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We would offer up two choices...
1. Pine needs 4 coats of Waterlox. Put 3 of the 4 coats down. Allow it to dry for 48+ hours with heavy ventilation to aid the drying. After waiting, cover the floors with rosin paper. Buy some quarter inch masonite and cover the work areas with that. Make sure all the workers work on the masonite so that ladders, tools and scaffolds don't dent the floors. Once everyone is completely done, pull up the paper, clean the floors with Spin-n-Span, and apply the final coat. We do this all the time.
2. Be patient and wait for everyone to be done. If you apply the coats early in the AM and ventilate well all day, you should be able to sleep there at night. The only toxic part of the project is the solvent. With proper ventilation the solvent is gone in the first 2-3 hours. Any odor you might have after that is the tung oil itself. Tung oil comes from the Tung nut tree and is therefore a vegetable oil and is non toxic. Again, we do this all the time. There really is no reason why you would need to move out for a week. We would not suggest the rug remedy mentioned by another post. The workers could exert enough weight on the upside down rug and it might imprint into the floor. Please call us at Waterlox to discuss this further if this does not answer your questions and concerns...800.321.0377 |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| Hawklox: Thanks for all the info. I was considering the move out just to be on the safe side with my 9 month old but as you say it may not be such a big deal if we can just get out for a couple of hours. I have an entire 3 day weekend to let this dry before I move back in and start working again. This makes me think it is all the more possible. Thanks. |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| I would wait to finish the floors until after the sheetrock is finished. WAY too many things can damage that floor - unless you plan to cover the entire floor with masonite - and watch the edges. You don't even want to think about mud from the drywall dropping down onto the edge and getting on your floor. I would definately wait. |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| As my GC put it - Sheetrock is always a messy job - no doubt about it. Sheetrock subs are not used to needing to be careful. I was prepared and still kind of shocked. I would never want to trust newly finished floors to survive that scenario. |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| The carpet covering might be a good option. We use cardboard sheets(not old boxes, we get 4' x 6' double wall sheets). We tape the seams and it is easy to cut to fit into corners, bump outs, nooks, crannys, etc. I am doing things out of order as well due to scheduling and budgeting issues. |
RE: Finishing floor before sheetrocking?
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| I have followed the suggestion made by Hawklox. Luckily I was able to allow the floor to dry for a week after the 3rd coat went down. We shall see in a couple of weeks what happens. |
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