After the construction of the house or the renovation of the apartment, the floor begins to be made at the very last moment in this lesson, we will assume that such a moment has already come. So below, we will learn how to make a dry floor screed with our own hands and disassemble the benefits of screeding concrete floors.
Advantages of dry screed before cement
Advantages of dry floor screeding before wet or concrete pouring are very significant. The main advantage is the simplicity of the screed and the time resource. After all, the dry floor screed is done in just a few hours, provided that it will be performed by people competent in construction.
A concrete( wet) floor screed is made mainly by specialists in the construction industry and the main drawback is that it will have to leave the apartment for several days, because concrete must "Grab" - to steep for several days and dry for a good quality screed.
In addition, it has long been known that the floor screed with expanded clay, and also with the presence of a damper tape for the floor screed will improve the sound insulation of our floor at times compared to concrete pouring.
Also, with concrete pouring of the floor, a sufficient amount of cement and sand is needed, which complicates the task if you are going to do floor screeding in the apartment, and not in the house.
Step-by-step process of floor screed
Step 1
First remove the old floor and align it with an ordinary trowel and cement by covering all the holes that may further interfere with us.
Step 2
In the second step we will lay a polyethylene tape or parchment on the floor - this will allow us to make a vapor and a void that will prevent the swelling of our flooring in the future.
Laying a polyethylene film on the floor
If you lay a film or parchment on a wooden floor, then use special materials for flooring on wood or chipboard, this is done so that when water leaks from the washing machine or for some other reason you do not swellfloor in the future, well, for concrete, polyethylene film is quite suitable.
At the edges and near the walls we advise you to lay a damper belt, which is an excellent help for eliminating problems with soundproofing of the room, and when the laminate heats up it will not allow it to expand.
Step 3
The third stage will be the laying of loose sand or expanded-clay swarf, which will allow you to lay loose materials in an even layer, which will serve as an excellent support for problems with soundproofing. Accordingly, the more noisier the neighbors, the more it will be necessary to lay a layer of expanded clay - usually it is laid about 6 cm.
Laying bulk materials
surface leveling process Step 4
After you level the surface, we advise you to lay a layer of chipboard or plywood in addition an excellent surface for levelingwill serve asbestos-cement slabs or styrofoam layer.
The flooring of the slabs on the mound will need to be laid from the door and continue to the wall that is opposite, but note that if you lay the insulation boards, then lay them against the wall that is just opposite the door, this will preserve the integrity of the backfill.
The process of laying slabs on a mound of expanded clay
