Align the base with a screed on the beacons

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Align the base with a screed on the beacons

The floor screed on the lighthouses is necessary in order to level the base, both during the construction phase and during repair.

Equally, this technology is suitable for homes and apartments.

Today, almost all floor coverings require the installation of perfectly flat surfaces, which at one time and their own hands can be difficult.

A beacon device easily solves these problems.

The main thing is to know the sequence of actions and responsibly approach each stage of work.

Do not think that for a design and a visual impression of the appearance of the premises, only the equal walls matter - the floor here plays no less important role.

Not only that on an improperly made base any kind of parquet or other covering will very quickly start to rise or sink, so also the aesthetic integrity of the room will be disturbed.

Therefore, when planning repairs, it is worth paying attention and installing lighthouses, as they will help make the floor as smooth and smooth as possible.

Contents:

  • Important preparatory stage of works
  • Correct marking - the key to successful laying of
  • How to perform the installation?
  • Seeding: Sequence and nuances of

Important preparatory stage of work for

Before any preparation for work and setting up beacons, any floor requires preparation.

Preparatory work affects the quality of the future flooring. Screed, which will last for many years, is possible only on condition of a firm foundation.

If there is an old coating, then you can not install new materials on top of it. It must be removed from the floor with a perforator.

If the installation is carried out for the first time on the concrete floor, then first all the cracks, chips, depressions must be cemented with cement.

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After all, the coating should be not only smooth - it must be warm, do not allow drafts.

Suitable for such purposes and tile mortar, which is fastened to panels or tiles. Any glue here can provide sufficient waterproofing.

Depending on how the floor screed will be connected to the base, the following types of coatings are distinguished:

  • bonded screeds that are firmly and inextricably connected to the floor;
  • if the room has increased insulation requirements, then another intermediate layer is made between the base and the floor screed;
  • "floating" design at least a few centimeters thick and reinforcing mesh.

The latter type is used when it comes to the most durable floor covering, which is used for enhanced waterproofing.

Correct marking - the key to successful laying of

To properly conduct the installation of beacons and other stages of work, you need to make a floor marking. First you need to draw a horizontal line.

For this purpose, you need to use a level or water level. The accuracy of both instruments is about the same, it's easier to work with the first one.

On the walls of the room at the same height, you need to make the same notes. Between them, a level horizontal should be drawn.

You can use a pencil, but you can stretch a dyeing thread, which is easy to move on the surface until you get the desired result.

The task here is the following: determine the highest point and the lowest point on the given floor. To do this, use the tape measure from the points and the line to measure the distance to the cover.

Technically, you can measure the entire floor and determine at what height to do the screed. For convenience, you can mark this height directly on the walls, so as not to get confused.

You can see the video, which shows how to properly markup in a sample room.

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Next, directly on the floor you need to draw lines that will point to the lighthouses under the screed. It is important to observe many nuances. For example, the leveling of the screed is a rule of metal.

It is best not to take long products, not more than a meter. Many are interested in the question, what should be the approximate distance from the lighthouses to the walls? There is no definite answer, it all depends on the area.

But the best option is to choose about 10 centimeters. Also it is worth remembering that the coupler is made in the direction from the far corners to the exit from the room.

The beacons themselves are chosen approximately 10 mm, metal, with the expectation that they need to be displayed with a margin.

How do I perform the installation?

Before starting all work, you must first put beacons on the floor for fitting. They put them on the planned lines, mark the places of joints on the floor.

Holes for them make a puncher and insert dowels, into which then self-screws will be installed. We twist them so that the hats are on the same line.

It is best that the hats be adjusted along a line that is drawn on the wall, as a blank for the future screed.

Next, between the screws, you need to lay out cakes of tile glue or other fixing material in the range of about 15 centimeters.

The beacon should be placed on the glue, and pressed using a rule that rests on the screws of the screws. Also, the whole surface of the lighthouse must touch it.

In the photo you can see how the beacons should be properly installed.

Installed Beacons

Consider options for what to do if you need a more complex design. When the bound screed is carried out, it is also possible to do without a primer.

Any compositions are suitable here, one must proceed from personal preferences and the type of waterproofing.

Often, when installing such beacons for floor screeding, choose the traditional for many houses option - cement-sand mortar.

Today, the market also sells dry composition for floor screed, which must be diluted in the right proportion of water.

The dry material includes special components to improve the properties of the coating, in addition, such a solution is easy to prepare by hand.

If the solution is prepared independently, then special attention should be given to the sand. It is necessary to choose washed sand, without impurities of clay and other substances.

Sand with cement is mixed in a ratio of 1 to 3. Also, although in the dry mix, even in the cement mix, you need to add plasticizers that improve the quality of the entire coating.

Also with them it will be easy to pull beacons from a hardening coating. Plasticizers help to reduce the proportion of water in the composition, which reduces the waiting time for drying.

In the section you will find a video on which the entire process is demonstrated in detail.

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Also, if you want to make a warm floor in the future, you can not do without fiber. It can be either polypropylene or basalt.

Since such a coating is associated with the installation of heating elements, and therefore with high temperatures, such a fiber will help to cope with thermal loads, and will protect from the cracking of the surface of the floor screed.

Floor pouring: sequence and nuances of

You can familiarize yourself with the sequence of filling the floor by watching the video. It is necessary to understand that the quality of the prepared solution plays an important role.

When choosing a dry composition, special attention should be given to mixing, so that in the end, no lumps remain in the mixture.

To make a solution at home with your own hands, you need to use a concrete mixer.

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Of course, you can mix in the trough with a shovel, but there is no guarantee that such a floor screed will be of high quality. Therefore, you must use a special device.

To level the feed solution, you need a rule, putty knives, grater. The main thing is to achieve a level surface.

If the structure is connected, then a layer can be applied that will be applied with a notched trowel. If you want to add fiber, then mix it into the dry mix.

For every 50 kilograms of cement or mortar, approximately 15 liters of water flows.

Pouring the floor starts from the far corners, it's much easier to implement this plan with your own hands than to put special bridges to move around the room.

Ideal screed

First make one strip between the lines of the lighthouse, then the second. The level of the poured solution can be made above the hats of the lighthouses, the main thing is to achieve uniformity.

The flooring is leveled and checked by the rule. The rule should be perpendicular to the beacons. Surplus can be removed by cutting.

The lack of adding the blades and leveling. Then the floor is left for about a day. Inevitable small irregularities and depressions - they can easily be corrected with a primer.

It is also necessary to wipe the entire surface of the screed. In the section there is a photo of the finished work.

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