Screed for a perfect finsh at the Ultimate garden room

[@Southernscreed]

We would like to say a massive thanks to you Robin for giving us (Southern Screed) the opportunity to appear in on one of your videos. It has been great working with you on this project and we look forward to seeing the finishing product! Thanks again from James, Dan and Claudia

[@bearhauscubly]

Great job, incredibly neat and tidy!

[@Thespecialone1970]

Very neat job guys. True professionals.

[@bradwhelan4466]

Tilers dream about floors with that flatness and quality.

[@Paul_Holmes]

😂 Robin, makes me laugh that you are a master carpenter and you are impressed by the skill of a lorry driver 🤣

[@ukconstruction]

Respect where it is due!!! I do get excited by that sort of thing!!!

[@Paul_Holmes]

@@ukconstruction Lovely attitude

[@billrimmer5596]

@@ukconstruction I think that is one of the reasons u have a great relationship with all your subcontractors. Obviously, u have to pay them, but treating people with respect and dignity endears them to u. Even if it’s someone who loads your dumpster. I think u guys call it a skip. That garden room is going to b amazing!! Can’t wait for u to fill the pool. I imagine u will heat the pool with the refrigeration system. Of course natural gas is faster and maybe cheaper. But your pool will b so well insulated that it won’t cost much to heat it year round. Dehumidifying the room the pool is in is essential for everything to last. Also, u don’t want to over chlorinate the water. The vapor coming off the pool can b very corrosive. The pool will get very little dirt in it. Just what your guests track in. Some people have their dogs in the water. Over the years, I have serviced some indoor pools for customers in Bel Air and Beverly Hills and so have experienced first hand what I am talking about.

[@peterwooldridge7285]

Just a joy to see tradies who take pride in their wotk an equipment

[@Oli_Hudson]

Great job!! You're the king of personalised number plates - spotted the plate on the Porsche!! 👌

[@ukconstruction]

Shhh!!

[@TheNorthernmunky]

What an awesome chap James is, very professional and a great finish!

[@ukconstruction]

It's great to have guys like Dan and James providing no fuss services to such a high and professional level in the UK Constitution industry I am lucky to know them!!

[@eddjordan2399]

Had these guys at my job after seeing them on your channel. They did a really great job. Perfect in fact. Nice to see them doing well.

[@magicsilence]

Nice job Robin, you seem to genuinely respect their work, which is so refreshing to see, I got Southern Screed to quote for a big job I did a couple of years back, and they came back a fair bit more expensive than others, but the quality is definitely there.

[@Southernscreed]

We would love the opportunity to quote for you on any future projects, we are always happy to discuss our prices so please drop us a line if there is anything we can help you with.

[@michaelfrench5252]

Preparation is everything. Fail to prepare ,prepare to fail.😊

[@MegaBambooboy]

All good guys at southern screed, with the patience of saints (i know how annoying i can be) bent over backwards to help me out with my monstrosity of a house.

[@garyhollywell2112]

Brilliant Robin what a quality team of guys and an amazing finished product....great watching

[@ukconstruction]

Thank you Gary!!!

[@liviurabet7326]

Amazing floor and I think is gonna be a strog floor at the end. Keep up the good work...

[@fardastevie2827]

yes robin your project is taking on leaps and bounds lovely job cant wait for the finnish result

[@pking9966]

These lads are great, they did my place a year or so ago after seeing your video. I was chuffed I got the A team too.

[@simonstones1918]

I can remember knocking up 10 ton of sharp sand back in the 80’s for my boss. You don’t know how easy you’ve got it now days! 😂

[@rjtjtckt3998]

An area that big and no expansion joints, impressive. Another good video.

[@samposton9101]

Looks fantastic Robin. Coming along nicely 👍🏻

[@ukconstruction]

Cheers Sam

[@paulward9151]

Wow... How interesting and informative was that!!.... Thanks for the upload and series.... Top job Robin.

[@POLOLOUS3]

Looks like a dream to tile. I have seen gypcrete done in the states many times and this operation with one guy looks so much easier and smoother. Although the gypcrete can be walked on and worked on much sooner.

[@skiathosmobi]

Great video, great respect to all involved 👍👍

[@Petertronic]

Very interesting indeed to see how this type of floor is done, satisfying seeing the end result too.

[@JoesGuitar]

Just watched “The Box” video and the first thing I thought was… What is that floor!? Looks ace Robin. Can’t believe how wet it goes down! Oh… that Hikoki battery table saw is a nice bit of kit as well!

[@jonnystella]

Nice job, so therapeutic too!

[@stuartjones2242]

nice job Robin, I had a similar product on my house extension flooring the end result was fantastic with no more than a 3 mm drop after it had dried out .

[@gdfggggg]

3mm!!?! You could go skiing on that 👀

[@Shane_O]

Great job!

[@mjg6966]

Great job, how long did take from first pour to finish.

[@adamazzazi9453]

Amazing video but if the level of under screed is not level and higher points not match the door level what to do

[@bikerchrisukk]

Nice bit of video'ing Robin, definitely a method that makes more sense on some site. James and Dan seem like good eggs too👍 I'm in Kent, so will definitely make note - although I think I've seen James face on site before.

[@Southernscreed]

We would love the opportunity to send you a quote so please do get in touch 🙂

[@bikerchrisukk]

@@Southernscreed Will defo keep you in mind 👍

[@petemoring67]

Soooo satisfying to watch a wet screed flow .... Thinking of back in the day, knocking up the sand'n'cement by hand - Just Me, My shovel, trusty wheelbarrow and a few lengths of 4x2's to get an 80yd house screed finished in a day - A bit of a back-breaker being a Plasterer, rather than a full-time screeder 😄 .... Is the cost an issue though? it looks expensive 🥴

[@tlangdon12]

It looks like they have their new lorry operational with their new FLOWCEM products.

[@ukconstruction]

Yep it's on the road!!

[@grzegorzbiernacki6260]

It will be nice to see some sort of video with those two products to see how they compare

[@markallen8097]

Benefits of anhydrite far out weigh cement based products until you get to the point of fitting a floor, then you start to loose some of the time and money you've saved due to the grinding and prep required to get it ready for flooring

[@TheLife0025]

Please tell us the pipe name. Pert al pert is not easy to handle and bend on 150mm.

[@CardiffGuru67]

What do you do with the perimeter edge strip? Do you cut it down to screed level after it's dried and tile over it, or leave it and put tiles down the cut it at tile height?

[@BerkeleyTowers]

Always gobmacked that the solids remain in suspension for such a fluid mix......... Hope you can keep any animals out!

[@gdfggggg]

Very impressive. So much easier than lugging concrete. Under that screed is it type 1, sand blinding, dpm, 100mm nsulation and then another dpm? Cheer Rob.

[@mikehunt4375]

How are you managing the drains in your shower area, nice sized bungalow with pool

[@Pistol_Knight]

Always freaks me out just how 'wet' it is!!!!

[@simonamoldovan3715]

Hi. How much the underfloor heating will raise the level of the floor? I already have a concrete floor and I am worried about the doors

[@ukconstruction]

Have you seen my low build underfloor heating video? we used a system that only added 25mm

[@mrboyban]

What comes first plastering the rooms first or laying the liquid screed?

[@ukconstruction]

You Can do it either way, I have done it before and after depending on the overall job program etc

[@brianhewitt8618]

👌

[@MrHydyr]

I have a question. I see that you have your timber frame, and wall insulation in place, as well as sheathing and gypsum boarding. THEN, what do you do with this excessive expansion band at the corner, and even if you cut it, wont it still be like 6-7mm gap? Or and even if you cut it, won't then the water get in (in case you spill something at the wall corner?)

[@ukconstruction]

Well its covered by skirting boards, if there is an escape of water then yes possible it could migrate into that space after seeping under the skirting

[@MrHydyr]

@@ukconstruction Thank you Sir. I'm an architect, and was trained in reinforced-concrete buildings. Timber frame is more of western hip,. Buy, I'm very curious, because, I guess that there shall be something to do with that.

[@cuebj]

With that huge floor, does the screed follow the curvature of the earth?

[@scotland2256]

The earth is flat Stephen

[@scotland2256]

Water is level.

[@daveyboytunes]

So can you put a polished concrete floor over this ?

[@ukconstruction]

Hi David, some people polish this, or you could potentially Micro Cement over it as a finish subject to the correct application and product

[@goober-ll1wx]

Dunno why that just looks like an inordinate amount of underfloor heating?!

[@gdfggggg]

“Inordinate”, nice wordage my brotha.

[@Gaddman01]

Amazed no expansion joints or reinforcing on external corners. It always cracks

[@ukconstruction]

This screed needs minimal expansion joints in small areas like this, it is super strong even at thin thicknesses

[@Gaddman01]

@@ukconstruction yea we have laid a ton of this stuff and use Cemfloor, you can lay up to 150m2 without expansion joints. But we always out expansion joints in doorways and reinforcing at external corners as the slab always wants to crack at these points. But we still have some cracking. Will be interested to see when you commission the heating if you have any cracking.

[@dolmarf411]

50mm???? thats thick. 25 is normal.

[@Kosmonooit]

I don't know how he could concentrate on the job with all that chatting going on.

[@blloodstone8762]

How much roughly was the underfloor heating

[@ukconstruction]

This system would be about £2.5k and then about 1k for the labour to install and commission