We create bulk floors
Almost every person who is at least a little familiar with such processes and will strictly comply with technological rules can do the bulk floor with his own hands in his house. Such a seamless coating, which has the second name "liquid floor", has a lot of positive qualities, so its popularity has recently increased significantly.
Benefits
It is fair to say that there are advantages to such a modern finishing method, and this is primarily:
- the complete absence of joints and seams on the floor in the toilet and bathroom, in which dirt usually accumulates and harmful microorganisms multiply;
- resistance to chemical compounds;
- high protective ability and antistatic properties;
- wide color gamut, allowing you to create an exclusive picture;
- dust removal of concrete screed;
- service life reaches half a century;
- resistance to mechanical stress and shock;
- elasticity;
- environmental Safety;
- the ability to lay a warm floor;
- high esthetic characteristics.
For the correct execution of the finishing process, there is a step-by-step instruction that gradually describes the sequence of work performed, and with its help you can make a truly unique warm floor in the toilet or bathroom.
Preparatory work
Do-it-yourself self-leveling floor, or rather its structure, begins with the preparatory work. Immediately make a reservation that you can make such a coating on top of tiles, concrete, cement screed or wooden flooring, the main thing is that the base is smooth. To check the evenness of the plane, on all the horizontals are passed a special staff-level. If the error does not exceed 4 mm, you can safely get to work and carry out the project in the bathroom, toilet or any other room of the house, and do it according to technology.
For high-quality preparation of a wooden base, it is necessary:
- dismantle skirting boards and the old floor heating system;
- remove the old paintwork with a grinder, putty knife, metal bristle brush or scraper;
- determine the permissible floor humidity (up to 10%);
- open each crack and grind the floor with emery with a large fraction to increase adhesion;
- remove dust and dirt from the surface using an industrial vacuum cleaner and apply a powder composition to disinfect the coating;
- putty cracks, for which use a special building mixture.
The concrete floor in the toilet and bathroom should be prepared as follows:
- check humidity (up to 4%);
- check for separation (over 1.5 MPa), as well as for compression (at least 20 MPa);
- withstand 28 - 30 days after pouring the screed (for a new base);
- to dismantle the old decorative coating;
- remove adhesives, mastics, paints and varnishes;
- thoroughly remove dust and debris;
- putty chips and cracks, using an adhesive composition containing special resins;
- align the base with a grinder;
- check horizontality.
For both wooden and concrete surfaces of the floor in the house, it is better to choose a leveling mixture to create a solid screed, which consists of a cementitious component and putty. If you will make a self-leveling floor on top of ceramic tiles, be sure to check the reliability of its fastening, as well as degrease the surface. All rough surfaces must be hard, dried, clean and have a continuous coating.
Primer
During this stage, a composition is applied using a roller or a wide brush to improve adhesion between materials with different structures, as well as to prevent the formation of air bubbles. You will also be able to achieve better spreading of decorative material, and the self-leveling floors with your own hands will turn out to be of high quality and beautiful.
Dried porous substrates must be primed in several steps with a break for complete drying of each layer, which will make it possible to remove pores. If the porosity of the floor is too high, it is recommended to make the primer of the floor with highly viscous materials. The concrete screed is primed with a two-component composition in which mineral components and solvents are not included.
Do not forget to ventilate the rooms in the house and maintain a stable temperature in it, otherwise you cannot avoid the appearance of bubbles.
How to make a mixture
Further, step-by-step instructions provide for the preparation of a mixture from which we will make self-leveling floors in the toilet and bathroom. First of all, it is necessary to observe the proportions indicated by the manufacturer in the product instructions. If you do not make the right consistency, the composition will not spread on the surface properly and the effect will not be achieved. As a rule, a self-leveling floor is prepared in the proportion of 25 kg of dry mix: 3.5 - 6 liters of water. All components are thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass is formed without lumps and air bubbles.
Do not be too lazy to check the prepared composition, but you need to do it this way: take a plastic ring with a diameter of 5 cm and the same wall height, and put it on a flat surface and fill it with the finished solution. When lifting the ring, the liquid should spread, and the diameter of the spot should be from 16 to 18 cm.
The process of filling the floor in the house
When you have finished preparing the mixture, you can do the bulk floor with your own hands in the toilet and bathroom. Such a procedure is carried out at a certain air temperature, and its optimal performance varies between +15 - + 25 ° with humidity up to 80%. The process itself starts from the far wall, and is poured into the floors within the same room without interruption in order to avoid level drops. We recommend purchasing special shoes with thin needles, in which you can step on the liquid mass without leaving any marks.
The decorative coating device, including the final finish on the warm floor, begins with the mixture being poured onto the substrate parallel to the wall in stripes, creating an even layer of 3-5 mm with a wide spatula. The thickness of the layer is usually controlled by a squeegee. To remove air bubbles and make the floor surface in the bathroom or toilet more uniform, use a needle roller. Further, the process is repeated, and the device of the floor in the house continues according to the same technology. The prepared composition must be worked out within one hour, and do not take breaks of more than 10 minutes between filling each next portion.
To achieve uniform drying and prevent dust from settling, the flooded bathroom floor is covered with foil or foil.
We cover the jellied floor in the bathroom with varnish
After the mixture is completely dry, it is recommended to cover the floor in the house with varnish based on polyurethane. Such a simple technique will increase the quality and performance of the decorative coating, as well as create a glossy film with a beautiful sheen on the surface. This completes the step-by-step instruction, and it is possible to fully use the flooded floor no earlier than after 5 days, while neatly stepping on it is allowed after 12 hours.
Experts recommend turning on the warm floor after a week after the self-leveling bulk floor is created.
As you can see, the device of the bulk coating in your home is quite within the power of everyone, the main thing is to choose a high-quality composition for the corresponding purpose, and not only professionals can do this.What will you receive in return for your labors? You will have a high-quality decorative coating that will fit perfectly into any interior and will make it possible to forget about repairing the floor for many decades.