I'll be laying vinyl floor tiles using hand-spreaded adhesive. The pros use a hand roller to make sure the tales end up nice and flat. These are expensive hand tools to buy. has anyone found a cheap, easy way to make something that does the job equally well? I've heard of people using a rolling pin (the type with a handle at each end), but this is not ideal.
Thanks,
Al
Why not just use a wallpaper seam roller?
What size & weight roller do you want? A fair variety of rollers can be made from pvc pipe or steel drums with concrete fill.
So far I've used random weights, just whatever's round the house.
NT
"Phil L" wrote in news:rDHCs.964851$yH4.539108 @fx03.am4:
Hi Phil, That would definitely be an option - thanks! Ideally, though, it would be wider (say around 6"-9"), to obtain a better degree of flatness, I would have thought. The purpose-built rollers generally see to be about that width, I think.
Al
snipped-for-privacy@care2.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
The room to be tiled is a small loo, so a lawn roller or similar would not be suitable. A small hand-held roller that allows a lot of pressure to be applied, would be best. Here is a purpose-built one:
Perhaps an ink brayer would work - I have one about 6 inches wide.
Lol. That's why I mentioned plastic pipe
NT
S Viemeister wrote in news:ak2s4bF8opgU1 @mid.individual.net:
Amazingly enough, I actually have one of them...somewhere! I must try and find it! Thanks...
Al
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