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Method Statement For Installation of Pre-Finished Engineering Flooring and Skirting

The document provides a method statement for the installation of pre-finished engineering flooring and skirting. It outlines 9 key steps: 1) proper handling and storage of materials, 2) ensuring the job site meets conditions like dryness, 3) testing the slab, 4) installing vapour barriers, 5) laying plywood sub-flooring, 6) laying and fastening the pre-finished floor strips, 7) protecting the new flooring, 8) fixing the skirting, and 9) other attendance required from the main contractor like controlling water and providing ventilation. The method statement aims to thoroughly prepare the site and install all flooring components in the proper sequence to attain the best results.

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Method Statement For Installation of Pre-Finished Engineering Flooring and Skirting

The document provides a method statement for the installation of pre-finished engineering flooring and skirting. It outlines 9 key steps: 1) proper handling and storage of materials, 2) ensuring the job site meets conditions like dryness, 3) testing the slab, 4) installing vapour barriers, 5) laying plywood sub-flooring, 6) laying and fastening the pre-finished floor strips, 7) protecting the new flooring, 8) fixing the skirting, and 9) other attendance required from the main contractor like controlling water and providing ventilation. The method statement aims to thoroughly prepare the site and install all flooring components in the proper sequence to attain the best results.

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Method Statement for Installation of

Pre-finished Engineering Flooring and Skirting


1.

Handling and Storage

Floor Strips & Skirting


The storage area provided by the Main Trade Contractor (MTC) should be
weather tight in conditions and well naturally ventilated, with sage custody
facilities.
Other materials
Other materials such as polyethylene film, plywood sub-flooring, nails, etc
should be stored on site under controlled conditions similar to normal practice
for storage of general building materials.
2.

Job Site Condition

Weather tightness
Before commencement of the flooring works, the building fabric should have
been completed including window and glazing, external wall finishing
including cleaning, T & C of air-conditioning units, etc. It is also important
that the water test for all openable and fixed windows (after glazing
installation) should be completed and passed, rectification of failure have also
been finished as well.
Dryness of slab
The concrete structure, masonry works and in particular concrete slab and
cement sand screeding should be thoroughly dry before flooring material is
delivered to individual flats.
Completion of preceding trades
In order to attain the best result of wood flooring, it is important to schedule the
work such that the laying of wood floorings is the last finishing work.
Therefore the following trades (but not limited to) should have been completed
prior to the commencement of wood flooring works:
a)

Wet trades within the flat including tiling, plastering, stone threshold, etc.

b)

Wet cleaning of sanitary wares and tiling of bathrooms and kitchen.

c)

Testing of drainage system of air conditioner and ensure there will be no


overflow.

d)

Window board including painting

e)

Patching, sanding, filling process of painting, which involves wet material.


(Small scale touch-up of final coat of wall painting to be executed under a
stringent controlled manner may be done after wood flooring work)

f.)

Door installation including architraves and hardwares.

g.)

Setting out line for final finished floor level to be provided by Main
Contractor.

Screed and wall line corner


The MTC shall ensure the wall line corner is right angle, straight, neat and
clean, remove any excessive mortar at the corner so as to provide the required
space for the wood flooring to expand laterally toward the wall lines in future.
Wall plastering, no matter on block wall or drywall, shall be straight, flat and
sound before commencement of skirting installation. Maximum tolerance of
wall lines is +/-2mm over 3 meter span.
Availability of vertical transportation facilities
At least one passenger or fireman lift per block and accessible to every floor
and the storage floor should be provided for the uplifting of the flooring
material to individual storey. Also such facilities should be free of charges.
Availability of electric power
Electricity power point at least every alternate floor of each block. The power
point should be minimum 60 Amp for single phase or 20 Amp for three phase.
The simultaneous consumption of electric power per block will be maximum
120 Amp for single phase or 40 Amp for three phase. Also, such supply
should be free of charges.
Identification of routing of concealed piping and conduit
Even though the embedded depth of concealed piping and conduits being
considered and should be more than the length of nails for wood sub - flooring
and skirting fixings, it will have tolerances for those concealed piping and
conduits during installation process. To mitigate the potential damages of nail
punching on concealed piping, MTC should instructed the plumbing and the
electrical package contractors to provide identification of the routing so as to
avoid such issue.
Screed level under door swing
For the engineering flooring, sub-flooring and finishing flooring, no pad and /
or shim can be used to adjust the finished level, especially at the doorways,
therefore, the package contractor should check the floor screed before
commencement so as to avoid any contamination on floor by others which will
affect the installation of sub and finishing flooring.
3.

Testing Slab

What to be tested
It is required to test the dryness of slab of individual flat. It is also required to
test the cement sand screeding to ensure the screed is reasonable sound, hard,
free from loose screeding/excessive sand and is bonded well to the concrete
slab below. Tolerance for screeding will be +/-3mm within 2m.

Proposed testing methods


It is proposed to use Delmhorst Moisture Detector or similar means which is
designed to indicate moisture levels of concrete floor. The merits of using
Moisture Detector are:
A. Result is known simultaneously.
B. Common tools for checking screed hammer and nails are required for
moisture checking and they can reflect problems of screed, if there is any,
when the electrode nails are driven to the screed.
Record of testing
The Subcontractor should record the results in writing and submit to the MTC
for record of the test. The MTCs representatives are welcome to witness the
testing at their discretion.
4.

Vapour Barrier
Proposed system should ensure moisture does not reach the finished floor, with
proper vapour barrier system, consisting of:
1st Vapour Barrier
Lay one layer of 0.12mm thick polyethylene sheet covering the entire area
including turn-up at wall line behind skirting, lapping edges nominal 75mm.
2nd Vapour Barrier
Minimum 15 1b asphalt/bitumen felt to be laid between the engineering
finishes floor and plywood sub-floor and allow nominal 75mm lapping edges,
butt ends.

5.

Plywood Sub-floor

Plywood
Use nominal 15mm thick plywood. Plywood in size of 2ft x 8ft or 4 x 4ft
panels for easy vertical transportation, easy handling and allow more movement
joints between panels. The plywood panels shall be nailed by 38mm long
nominal size concrete nails at 450mm centres.
Application
Before nailing sub-flooring, roll out the 1st vapour barrier over the finishing
floor slab.
Loose lay plywood panels on polyethylene film over entire floor and at right
angles to the finished flooring besides the finished flooring is at diagonal
direction. Keep nominal 15mm space at all wall lines and between panels.

6.

Laying and Fastening Prefinished Floor Strips

Direction of finish flooring


Lay the finish flooring in accordance with the layout of the approved shop
drawings.
Starting
Place a mark nominal 8 to 10mm plus the width of flooring on the end wall near
a corner of starting wall. Place similar mark at opposite corner and insert nails
into each mark. Pull string line between nails and set the line. Nail the first
strip with its leading edge on this line. Use finishing nails and drive them into
the top surface of the first row strip. Keep the starter strip aligned with the
string line. Blind nail starting strip through the tongue according to nailing
schedule.
Rack the floor
Lay out seven or eight rows of flooring end to end in a staggered pattern with
end joints at least 150mm apart.
Nailing Schedule
32mm long T-shaped staples to be used for the installation of the finished strip
flooring. Nails should be nominal 250mm apart and minimum 2 nails per strip
of 25-75mm near the ends.
Nailing the floor
Use staples nailing machine to drive nails pneumatically.
through the tongue of the flooring at the proper angle.

Staples are driven

End up nailing at the far wall with the same nominal 8 to 10mm space allowed
on the beginning wall.
Avoid end of finish floor meet over a subfloor joint.
7.

Protection
Right after the fixing of flooring, protect the floor by laying corrugated plastic
protection board or equivalent onto the flooring and plastic sheet to skirting to
prevent from damage.
Remove the protection only when instruction is given by the MTC, the Architect
and Client to do so.

8.

Skirting Fixing

Sequence
Skirting will be prefinished in factory and fixed right after the commencement
of Wood Flooring works.

Fixing
The top edge level of the skirting shall be the theoretical design level plus 3mm
positive tolerance. The joints of skirting shall be butt, fit and tight with mitre
joint at wall corner. The skirting shall be fixed onto the wall by 25mm long
concrete nails maximum 500mm centres, approx. 25mm away from the edges.
Nails should stagger from top and bottom rows such that each fixings centre
shall be no more than 300mm apart.
Nail heads shall be touched up by Furniture Repair Pencil of which colour
should matches with the finish of the skirting.
9.

Other Main Contractors Attendance


a) The valve for the water supply pipe to cisterns W.C. and basin or the like
shall be shut off all the times until handover of timber flooring.
b) Extra site patrol staff should be provided to ensure that there shall be no
unauthorized use of water on site, windows are properly closed after
working hour and when there is rain, and in case there is any water leakage
it will be attended at the earliest time possible.
c) Adequate ventilation should be maintained to individual flat from
completion of the flooring work until the handover of individual flat owner.
d) No plant shall be laid directly over the finished flooring. If plants such as
trestles, ladders or steps have to be used, the part/ foot resting on the
flooring or flooring protection should be covered with protective padding/
cushion to avoid damages to the vulnerable pre-finished flooring.

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