Bit of DIY advice if possible chaps: Am laying some cheapy wood textured Linoleum to the bathroom floor which is currently concrete, and it says on the packet to seal concrete flooring with PVA beforehand. What kind of ratios should i use? 50:50 - pva:water? How logn should i leave it before laying the lino, as it doesnt say on there! few hours? few weeks?! lol Should the pva be dry or tacky? Thanks in advance
yh pva is common to seal it, thickness is up to you, 25/75 will be fine i would have though or thinner if your short on pva wont take too long to dry, depends on breeze ect, i'd say few hours most with a window open and it will dry, dry not tacky
Well i dont think we'll be short of PVA so i'll probs make it a bit thicker. Is it a problem to leave it overnight to dry or will it go bad?! :-s sorry, im an idiot :-p
But is it possible to leave it TOO long? Say if i apply it at 9pm, and then lay the lino the following morning, is that ok? or is there an optimal time that i should be laying the lino after the PVA has dried?!
nope not really, i'd do a dead watery 1st coat then once it's tacky put on a richer mixture for a 2nd coat. However i have no scientific reason for this
Thats exactly what we did in the end. Slapped it on a bit thick though so it took ages to dry! never mind, flooring all down now and looks s****y(ish). Cheers chaps.
reason being if you put a to heavier coat on first it doesnt tend to sink into the screed allowing a second to stick properly, all you`ll be doing is puttin another skin between screed and lino glue, just like putting paint on new plaster if no watered down base coat paint will advently come off, unless its paint for new plaster of course, i`d do as prof said ****y first 50/50 second
