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"FLOOR LAYER"
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Job Description:

  • 1) Applies blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative covering to floors, walls, and cabinets: Disconnects and removes obstacles, such as appliances and light fixtures.

  • 2) Sweeps, scrapes, sands, or chips dirt and irregularities from base surfaces, and fills cracks with putty, plaster, or cement grout to form smooth, clean foundation.

  • 3) Measures and cuts covering materials, such as rubber, linoleum or cork tile, and foundation material, such as felt, according to blueprints and sketches, using rule, straightedge, linoleum knife, and snips.

  • 4) Spreads adhesive cement over floor to cement foundation material to floor for sound-deadening, and to prevent covering from wearing at board joints.

  • 5) Lays out centerlines, guidelines, and borderlines on foundation with chalkline and dividers.

  • 6) Spreads cement on foundation material with serrated trowel.

  • 7) Lays covering on cement, following guidelines, to keep tile courses straight and butts edges of blocks to match patterns and execute designs.

  • 8) Joins sections of sheet covering by overlapping adjoining edges and cutting through both layers with knife to form tight joint.

  • 9) Rolls finished floor to smooth it and press cement into base and covering.

  • 10) May soften area of floor covering with butane torch to fit materials around irregular surfaces.

  • 11) May lay carpet.

  • 12) May be designated according to type of floor laid as Asphalt-Tile-Floor Layer; Cork-Tile-Floor Layer; Linoleum-Floor Layer; Linoleum Layer; Linoleum-Tile-Floor Layer; Rubber-Tile-Floor Layer.

 

 

 


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DOT:   864.481-010

Job Number: 4122