Installing Stone Flooring
Al Carrell: Maybe you've been thinking about a new floor for some room in your house, and if you have, we've got a great one for you. This is a flagstone floor from Quikcrete and it's called Vengeance Creek Stone. It's easy to install, easy to clean and it looks great.
Randy Williams: Alright Kelly, you ready to mix up some mortar?
Kelly: Sure.
AC: My daughter, Kelly, and Randy Williams from Quikcrete are going to help me with the installation.
RW: What we're going to do Kelly is just add some water in, get it to a plastic consistency, real smooth workable consistency and we'll be set to put it down.
AC: Now, this is the way we get started putting down the stone, right?
RW: Right Al. What we've done is got our mortar mixed up and we're going to put it down at about 1/4 of an inch, 1/2 an inch thick and then we're going to take our stones and embed those right into the bed of mortar.
AC: Alright Kelly, you ready to get started?
K: Sure.
AC: Hey Randy, be sure we're doing it right.
RW: I sure will.
AC: As you work along, you want to be sure that you keep the floor level. You can either eyeball it or you can use a level, but you want to be sure that it's not going to be uphill. Laying the stones is a lot like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. You just look for a piece that's going to fit into the spot you need to fill. Now sometimes we have to make our own chips. Like here's one that'll fit right in here. Randy, how's the best to break that off?
RW: Well, like I said, the stone is a natural stone, but it will cut with just a hammer.
AC: Hey! Fits right in there. Kelly, you're really getting good at those little chips over there, aren't' you?
K: Well, sometimes you have to use the little ones to fill in.
AC: Randy, what about all this stuff that's slopped over here, this mortar that's off of the joints here?
RW: What we want to do, Al, is take a wet brush and we'll go back in on the sides and rake that mortar out. It'll put the mortar into the side joints and it'll also give it a nice finished look.
AC: Well, you can't have all the fun. You'll notice that we're using the same mortar to fill the spaces in between the stones that we use to adhere the stones to the floor. Hey Kelly, this thing is finally finished and it looks like a million bucks.
K: Yeah, but it was only $2.00 a square foot for the rock and the mortar.
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Episode 53 1997 - 98 Season
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