Flooring Editing and Proofreading Services

The floor lifts in March. The manufacturer says the subfloor was too wet, the contractor says it was tested and dry, the client says nobody told them the heating had to be run for three weeks first. Everybody is partly right, and the argument is settled — or not — by a single sheet of paper recording what the moisture meter said, where, and when.

We edit what flooring contractors and suppliers produce — subfloor moisture test records and their reporting, site condition and acclimatisation requirements, installation method statements and specifications, warranty documentation and its conditions, pre-installation checklists for clients and main contractors, screed and substrate preparation specifications, adhesive and underlay documentation, expansion and movement provision guidance, maintenance and cleaning instructions, remedial and inspection reports, and quotation documents and their exclusions. Our editors work on the record the warranty depends on.

The moisture test record and the site conditions around it are what decide who pays when a floor fails, and their failure is a single reading with a tick beside it. We work through these so the test is recorded with the method used and its units, since a surface reading from a pin meter and a relative humidity reading from an in-situ probe measure different things and only one of them tells you about the moisture below; so every reading is located on a plan rather than described, and the number of readings relates to the area, because a single reading in a two-hundred-square-metre slab is a sample of one; so the probe's equilibration time is recorded, given that a hood or sleeve read early gives a comfortingly low number; so the ambient temperature and humidity at the time are logged, as the acceptance figure depends on them; so the conditions the installation depends on afterwards are stated as obligations with owners — who runs the heating, from when, at what temperature, and who confirms it — since this is the condition most often breached and least often written down; so any reading outside the acceptable range is recorded with what was done rather than retested until it passes; and so the warranty document lists the conditions in the same terms as the test record. Records written this way end the argument in an afternoon.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including test records, specifications and client information. We are editors rather than flooring, screed or moisture specialists, and we offer no view on test methods, acceptance criteria or product suitability. What we can do is make the record match what the warranty requires.