DCS Flooring come to the rescue at BSS HQ

DCS Flooring come to the rescue at BSS HQ

DCS Flooring are a leading stockist, supplier and installer of luxury vinyl in Leicester and the East Midlands.

We supply the leading brands like Amtico, Karndean, Moduleo and Polyflor, but we ensure that we can cover all budgets.

Luxury vinyl repair at BSS HQ.

In March 2016 we were asked by the main contractor Oliveti Construction to do a luxury vinyl repair at BSS HQ (Travis Perkins).

BSS had a leak that had flooded the ground floor over the building. The first floor has raised metal flooring throughout. Water had gone underneath the raised floor and damaged the electrics.

In the canteen area the flooring had to be taken up in an area of 14m x 1m down the centre of the canteen.

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Once the flooring was taken up the raised metal floor was taken out to access the electrics.

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This wasn’t good as this then broke up all of the latex under the floor and the planks that were taken out had latex and old glue stuck to them, thus, meaning that they could not be re-used.

Problems that could occur with a Luxury vinyl Repair.

In this instance we had to re – latex majority of the uplifted floor, the problem with this is that if we raised the floor by as much as 1mm the floor planks that were uplifted would not line back up and this could cause major issues and result in the uplift and replacement of the whole floor at a cost of up t £10000.

We stressed to BSS that we would take as much time as it would take to get the preparation right so that we could avoid this problem.

LVT planks / tiles are heat sensitive, they potentially expand in heat and contract in the cold, this is in terms of mm’s but when you are doing a repair this is a major problem.

Im not going to beat around the bush but a LVT repair is a horrible job, but we knew that BSS had only been in their new building 6 months and we really wanted to help them save their ‘new’ floor.

The next major problem that we faced was stock of the floor, we were able to find what floor was used and we needed to order more packs to replace the flooring that had been uplifted and had old glue and latex on the back.

The flooring used was Tarkett ID 70 and to our amazement Tarkett had no stock and did not have a production date for any new stock, unbelievable.

So, we had 1 option, sit and scrape all of the old latex off the back of the boards so that they were like new, not a nice job but one that we done as it was the only option.

Performing the LVT Repair.

The hardest and most time consuming part of this job was the preparation, as with any job that we do preparation is key. 

Once that preparation was complete, the boards were cleaned the job then became quite straight forward.

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WOW it looks like the floor fairy has been in.

We were able to repair this floor because we are experts in our field, we will take as long as it takes to get our tasks done to the highest standard whatever the circumstances are.

Our contact at BSS stated before we started that this could not look like a repair, with all respect to him he had not dealt with us before so he was not aware of the standards that we set for our selves.

If you require any LVT Flooring in Leicestershire or the East Midlands feel free to call the team on 0116 2395847.

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