Installing a kitchen

creedp

We ordered the kitchen about 10 weeks before the original date for the pouring of my screeds as the kitchen was being discontinued. However, we had a 6 week delay in pouring the screeds which are now poured with 6 weeks. My kitchen supplier is putting on the pressure to deliver and fit kitchen as it is now almost 6 months since we ordered and he wants his final payment and wants to increase his storage for new kitchens coming in. The ground floor screed is 100mm and will have been poured for 8 weeks before the proposed date for delivery. I know that strictly speaking I should wait for 100 days prior to laying flooring to ensure that screed is completely dry but I was wondering would an 8 week old 100mm screed be too moist to install a kitchen - would it damage the kitchen?

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muffler

Unless you had a burst pipe or the likes in the last few weeks then I wouldn't see a problem. Any residual moisture in the screed would be rooted at the bottom.

BryanF

creedp wrote: »

We ordered the kitchen about 10 weeks before the original date for the pouring of my screeds as the kitchen was being discontinued. However, we had a 6 week delay in pouring the screeds which are now poured with 6 weeks. My kitchen supplier is putting on the pressure to deliver and fit kitchen as it is now almost 6 months since we ordered and he wants his final payment and wants to increase his storage for new kitchens coming in. The ground floor screed is 100mm and will have been poured for 8 weeks before the proposed date for delivery. I know that strictly speaking I should wait for 100 days prior to laying flooring to ensure that screed is completely dry but I was wondering would an 8 week old 100mm screed be too moist to install a kitchen - would it damage the kitchen?

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how longs the heat on?

Do-more

Personally speaking I wouldn't see a problem, presumably the kitchen is standing off the slab on plastic legs so will not be in direct contact.

I would leave off the kick boards for the moment and keep the room well ventilated, the moisture will be coming out of the slab at a relatively low rate at this stage and as long as the room is well ventilated the RH cannot build up.

The biggest problem I see for you is setting the height of the kitchen correctly if your floor finish isn't applied yet, but if you know what that will be that shouldn't be a problem either.

Poor Uncle Tom

Do-more wrote: »

Personally speaking I wouldn't see a problem, presumably the kitchen is standing off the slab on plastic legs so will not be in direct contact.

I would leave off the kick boards for the moment and keep the room well ventilated, the moisture will be coming out of the slab at a relatively low rate at this stage and as long as the room is well ventilated the RH cannot build up.

The biggest problem I see for you is setting the height of the kitchen correctly if your floor finish isn't applied yet, but if you know what that will be that shouldn't be a problem either.

Exactly that,
Leave off the kickers until your floor coverings are on and dried out.

If your kitchen is solid timber, it also needs to be left acclimatise in the room for a few days before fitting.

Max Moment

You could do a moisture test on the screed to see if it is within an acceptable range for fitting the floor covering (your floor supplier should be able to advise you on this).

Depending on what the floor covering is you could alternatively apply a liquid DPM on to the screed before the floor covering is applied if the moisture content is still too high. This will let you lay your floor straight away.

creedp

Do-more wrote: »

Personally speaking I wouldn't see a problem, presumably the kitchen is standing off the slab on plastic legs so will not be in direct contact.

I would leave off the kick boards for the moment and keep the room well ventilated, the moisture will be coming out of the slab at a relatively low rate at this stage and as long as the room is well ventilated the RH cannot build up.

The biggest problem I see for you is setting the height of the kitchen correctly if your floor finish isn't applied yet, but if you know what that will be that shouldn't be a problem either.

I won't have a floor finish to install as I have a polished concrete finish in the kitchen which has already been done. So kitchen is going in at ffl. Good news about being able to go ahead .. will check with kitchen suppliers about acceptable moisture levels to be on safe side. Presumably the fitting of the kick boards should not present too much of a problem even for the likes of me:) At least its only the screed that can be giving off moisture at this stage as the house was plastered and skimmed in March last.

On the Q of heating .. it hasn't been turned on downstairs because of the fear of cracks in the polished concrete finish but I suppose now after 6 weeks that shouldn't be a problem. I might turn on heat downstairs for a week before kitchen delivery so help dry out screed as much as possible. However, the heat has been set to come on at 20c upstairs for last 2 weeks but because of warm weather it has only been coming on for a max of a 2 - 3 hours at night.

Thanks for all comments/advice.

Do-more

If the concrete has been polished it will have a very tight surface finish which will inhibit drying out but this shouldn't really pose a problem for you.

Thinking about it further (it was very early, when I posted this morning;)) the only area that could pose a problem is any end boards or a larder unit where the open chipboard is sitting directly on the ground but the amount of moisture that is likely to migrate into them is probably very low. What you could do if you are concerned is to run a small bead of silicon along them and skim it off spreading it over the entire surface of the open chipboard that should inhibit any moisture.

As for the kick boards, have your fitters fit them so that they are all lined up correctly and then take them off again, it'll only be a matter of clipping them on them when you are ready to move in.