Screedo, easy screed - Worth buying?

[PATRICK C]

First time using site so bear/bare? with me, have refered to it loads of times but never posted. Just wondering if any of you guys have used Screedo easy screed before, normally I screed free hand using various spirit levels, and sometimes 25mm bar if I can find straight ones in the unit that havent been used as pry bars etc .Just landed a job to lay approx 650 sq mtrs of Brett Alpha and thought id treat myself to new kit, would appreciate any feedback if anybody has used them. Also, many thanks for a brilliant website.

[Dave_L]

For the money, doesn't look a bad bit of kit.

No experience here, anybody else?



EeziScreed by Screedo

[Tony McC]

It's a product that's been around under various names for a number of years. Personally, I think it's expensive for what it achieves, when you think that you can get 100m of 20mm conduit for under 100 quid, but I know Nigel Walker, contractor up in Cumbria, bought a kit off them back in the Spring and was initially delighted with it.

[Nigel Walker]

Yeah I got the kit a few months ago. The lads on site thought it was good and used it to good effect.
Now, 5 months on the lads have reverted back to the tried and trusted method of 20mm steel box in 2.4m lengths and timber straight edges. The screed kit is in the lock up gathering dust !!!
I cant tell them that they have to use it so i suppose its one of those 'live and learn' experiences we all go through.
Thats not to say that other people wont find the kit useful - it does come in handy carrying tubes and it does work - but just not for my lads !

Nigel

[PATRICK C]

Thanks for the replies, know what you mean about kit gathering dust, bought a pointing gun about 2 years ago,used it once and got fed up of spending more time filling the gun than the joints, reverted back to trowel and jointer! Like you say, looks a handy piece of kit for the money, was more interested in the straight edge screeders themselves than the rails, but the'yre doing a deal on the full kit, and they do a 3m length which is longer than my big level.

[slimdotjim]

650m2 that's a large job, Have you thought of investing in a Probst telescopic screed or maybe hire something similar if you can.

[PATRICK C]

Priced the Probst and am looking at the thick end of £600.Eaziscreed seemed a pretty good deal, obviously doesnt look as sturdy as Probst, but have never used either so not sure. As said before did'nt want to shell out hard earned on something that would get used a couple of times and then end up at the back of the unit, agree with you about hiring but dont seem to be able to find a firm that lists them, best be gettin on the phone methinks!

[lutonlagerlout]

i use a 2.4 and a 3.5 m aluminium straight edge for screeding
plus various bits of cls for smaller lenghths
the standing up bit looks good ,but its nice to get close to the work
have tried a roller on a couple of sub bases but it tends to create waves in the sub base ,the wacker gets it nice and flat
any ideas?
LLL

[msh paving]

nothing can compare to a probst easyscreed, i have the who set off them from the .6m to 3m and a few bundles off 20mm galvanised conduit, no wet knees no holes in jeans easy to use my 3m teliscopic unit is 5 years old still perfect,it pays to buy the best you can afford

[Tony McC]

If I was still contracting, I'd not hesitate to use the Probst EasyScreed. It's far more ergonomic, and as Mark says, no wet knees and holey breeches, but more importantly, it allows you to use the strongest muscles in the body (the quadraceps in your thighs) rather than rely on those iffy muscles around your lower back.

And don't think the benefit of keeping your knees out of damp sand is not all that important. Ask any flaggers or block layers in their 40s and 50s which bit of their body aches most and it's nearly always the knees. All those years kneeling on damp sand is the perfect way to encourage arthritis - in your 20s and 30s it's all too easy to think it won't happen to you, but once in your prime, it can and does cripple far too many highly experienced contractors who are then forced off the tools.

LLL is right about the benefit of being close to the work, but you develop a working method with the EasyScreed that allows you to remain intimate with your laying course, and there's always the inevitable titivating to be done in corners and at edges where the screeder won't reach, so you are never completely divorced from the sand.