Durable and flat concrete floor in a private house

You do not have to be a master to make a concrete floor in a private house. The main thing is the right amount of necessary materials.

Houses, built with their own hands, often distinguish the original design. After all, their owners are trying to do repairs themselves, without calling specialists.

Concreting is more popular than laying a wooden flooring.

The tree can be damaged by rodents, and reliable concrete will last for many years, ensuring the absence of moisture in the building.

Durable and smooth, it will become a platform for ceramics, parquet or laminate.

Advantages of concrete floor:

• Concrete guarantees durability and dryness in a private house, regardless of showers outside the window and passing years;
• Correctly laid floors remain smooth( without curvature);
• Concrete floor is combined with any other coating;
• The main plus of concrete is safety. Does not smell, does not release hazardous substances. Because it is so in demand during construction;
• Concrete is unpretentious in use, external influences will not damage it.

But, to all known fact, concrete is cold. In addition to it, additional materials will be needed that keep the heat within them.

The process of concrete insulation also has its own characteristics.

Preparing for pouring concrete

Do not rush to immediately pour concrete in the building.

Initially, measure the height of the floor, compact the soil, make a so-called pillow and conduct waterproofing. Otherwise, the device of the concrete floor will be flawed.

You will need:

• Vibrating ramm;
• Construction level;
• Polyethylene film / roofing paper;
• Polyfoam / expanded clay / basalt;
• Restrictive slats;
• Reinforced mesh.

The first step is to determine the zero level. This must be done to avoid unevenness.

So, starting from the wall with the entrance, along the perimeter of the house draw a line of more than a meter in height or stretch the cord. Describe the line will help level or level.

If in the base of the house already laid concrete, then the previous layer is beaten with a hammer. Specialists do not advise placing the liquid floor directly on the old one.

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When the ground under the house is bumpy, it is smoothed and pressed to a depth of 5 cm. The surface should be as straight as possible.

Then begin to compact the soil - the concrete will be used sparingly, the floor will not settle, no crevices will appear.

Primer is rammed with a broken brick with a vibrating rammer. If this device is not found among your tools, you can compact the small area with your own hands.

When preparing to lay concrete, do not forget to build a pillow - a kind of reservoir for communications, laid out on the floor. Wires and pipes are pre-covered in a box.

The device of a pillow with their own hands begins with the laying of gravel with a layer of 5 cm. It needs to be leveled and moistened.

The next layers will be easier to fall asleep, using pegs driven into the gravel( then they are removed).

Sand is poured onto the gravel, the thickness of the layer should be about 10 cm. The layer is again rammed and poured with water.

The last lay another 10-centimeter layer of gravel, slightly sprinkling it with sand. The cushion will drop by one third, becoming below the laid layers after a permanent seal.

To ensure that the concrete floor serves no objections, waterproofing is carried out. From moisture protect different construction materials.

A film-membrane or polyethylene is suitable as a barrier against groundwater.

Material is more reasonable to impose approximately 2 cm. It is better to stitch it with a 20 cm overlapping, gluing the film webs with polyvinyl chloride tape. Waterproofing of concrete floors in the toilet and bathroom is mandatory.

To waterproofing, carried out by own hands, was thorough, instead of polyethylene often take ruberoid. With it the waterproofing will be ideal.

If there is no doubt that the brooks will not leak into your house, limit yourself with polyethylene. When a building needs waterproofing, it all depends on your finances and wishes.

Waterproofing does not always require material. It is good enough to glue the boundaries of slabs and cracked mortar. An unseen crack will cause the floor to leak, try to be more careful.

How to produce a high-quality fill?

If the waterproofing is done, the next step is pouring concrete.

You have to make the laying yourself starting from the angle opposite the door. Going to the exit is desirable in shoes with spikes, climbers call it "cats".

Equally pour concrete to help placed the restrictive slats. The thickness of the concrete layer when constructing the floor of a private dwelling is 7 cm according to the rules.

The figure should be such, even if the floor in the future does not experience heavy loads.

The final layer is reinforced with a metal frame. If the concreting of the house is carried out with their own hands, then they use simple rabitsa.

The reinforcing device assumes that concrete completely hides the reinforced mesh. It is pulled on pegs, connected, and not welded.

Under it lay stones, so that it does not shine through the concrete. So the floor is more stable when pouched, protected from impacts and mechanical influences.

The process of leveling the floor with your own hands will facilitate the beacons that are sent to make the fill at a distance of zero level. The guides are mounted on the cardboard, fixed with plaster.

The first beacon is put through the level, the rest are focused on the first. Between them, a gap of 70 cm is retained.

Straighten the surface when the concrete floor is installed with a needle roller. It is better to make one batch of solution - the floor will be more homogeneous.

To not prepare liquid concrete several times, use a large container with a capacity of 20 liters.

Gulf all the space, cover the fresh concrete with a film - there it is forbidden to walk up to the absolute desiccation. It is recommended to slightly water the concrete with water twice a day for two weeks.

It freezes a long time, it can take two to four weeks. The strength of the brand of concrete flooded floors will be acquired after a month.

How to insulate concrete floor?

The device of the concrete floor is already behind - it's time to insulate it.

Insulation is the guarantee of a comfortable environment in the house. What it is necessary to undertake, that the house year-round was warm?

Concrete floor can be insulated with different materials. Each insulation is characterized by its pluses and minuses.

Choosing a heater, focus on a specific floor.

Materials to insulate the floor:

• penofol;
• expanded clay;
• basalt;
• isolone;
• polystyrene foam;
• polystyrene.

You can take a reliable expanded clay, polystyrene foam. The house will be warm, if you use and already obsolete glass wool.

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Accurately calculate the required number of materials, otherwise repairs will be expensive.

What should I do if the basement is freezing?

If the house is with a basement, then first it is worth taking measures for the dryness of the underground room.

To make the space under the basement ventilated and dry, make the ventilation holes. The earth below is strongly compressed and sprinkled with sand for 20 cm.

Instruction for the insulation of the room above the basement:

1. To the logs along the entire length, we beat the cranial beams. On them fasten the boards, mounting them tightly to each other;
2. On the mounted roll, we put a film that performs water repellent functions;
3. Then it is necessary to warm the structure( it is correct to use a heater with fiberglass and basalt - they let in air);
4. We build the floor under the basement: prikolachivaem to the ceilings bruski made of wood, chipboard, not edging boards. Between the floor and the wall leave a small gap of 1 cm, which is sealed with a plinth.

Final stage

If desired, compact the concrete with a leveling mixture of cement and water in the consistency of liquid porridge.

You can do it easier and buy such a solution in a specialized store.

The screed acts on the principle of the roller, bringing the surface into a perfectly flat condition. It precedes the laying of floor coverings. After it lay linoleum, parquet, laminate.

If you are not mistaken in anything, the floor will be warm and will last without defects for a long time.

From all that has been said, we conclude that pouring strong and even concrete, warming it and giving the house the right design with your own hands is real. Absolutely nothing prevents to make a warm basement.

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We advise you to purchase high-quality materials, the result of the work done directly depends on it.

The process of pouring concrete with their own hands is not complicated. The construction of a concrete floor does not oblige you to make a hasty repair.

Take time for this, arm yourself with patience, diligence, and soon enjoy the fact that your house has its own original design.