Screeding tools

After my hol next month I am getting some new screeding tools. Have spoke to a few people and have a few ideas.
So what do you use and why you use it?

I use laybond plastic buckets but am switching to the yellow gorilla ones
Have a big screeding trowel but not sure on make
I need a new drill an was looking at one from machine mart for a £100
I use cheap paint rollers for priming and dpm
And am getting the pin leveller, thanks sandy.

Any photos would be good guys.

 

I use fball buckets, fball spiked roller and I think its a 15" trowel and a little midget trowl for getting round toilets tight spots. I use to use those tuff tubs but the whisk I use seems to cut them

 

That Itools mixing station is the best I have recently invested in one and it makes mixing screed so much easier got mine from havwoods it is pricie but well worth it, I also invested in their stand up screeding trowel that to is awsome to put it simple terms it puts exactly 3mm of screed down in every application which is the recommended ammout with no trowel lines no overlap lines pricie again but put it like this I screeded 220m2 with it in less than 1 hour so a worth wile investment, the next night the screed was like a slab of glass. Havwoods sell the Itools gear check out their website I also ivested in their Berg 110v mixing drill again pricie but very good twin speed forward and reverse and has a slow start which can be gradually increased so your screed don't end up all over the walls, the speed is controled by a simple dial like the volume on your stereo, which in my opinion the Berg drill works very well with the Itools mixing station as you can start slow and increase as you add more powder.
The only down side of this gear is keeping it all clean it cost alot of money, so I have an ardex mixing bucket filled with water to dump the drill after each use keeping it clean and I clean up the trowel by just dunking it and brushing it off then when I'm finished with the mixing station I tip some of the water into there and brush it out.

 

It does look amazing that lads, I would get one if I did a lot of screeding put do mainly small builders jobs like kitchens bathrooms etc, an residential jobs in Karndean amtico etc.

 

hmm ive looked into this and am very interested in maybe purchasing one. do you lads use the upright screed trowel and if so which size?

 

I do its a bit strange at first and takes a bit of getting use to, I purchased the 430mm one and thought start small and work up once I was used to it. In the first use at 10pm on a sunday night at chelsea & westminister hospital I screeded 230m2 in under an hour if you include time cleaning itools mixing station and trowel 1 hour. Could anyone do that on ya knees I think not.

 

i,m liking the idea of this. anything that saves the knees and back sound good to me.
any links/sites/suppliers where i can get the best deal ?

 

Try Havwoods they have all the ITools gear mate.

 

What make pin leveller do you have lads.
There is one with 4 pins and one with 2 pins ?

 

I use a two pin Daz seems to work fine.

 

Is it the pajarito screed leveller Jay ?
That has 2 pins

 

My pajarito one has 4 pins

 

No Daz its the ITools one the best in my opinion. As it has a unique swivel joint that behaves exactly like your wrist so it makes standing up to screed much easier than the fixed versions.

 

Looks like some quality gear that, i just use the old paddle, bucket and float

 

Hi Owen good to see ya mate.

 

Hi bladerunner, you to mate, been working a lot so havent really managed to get on here that much, good to be back on tho