If you do not like it when the floors of your home are covered with carpets, which you should constantly monitor, warm floors can be the way out. Choosing warm floors, you can always walk at home barefoot without fear of colds. If in the warm days of the year your structure will warm up well with the rays of the sun, then you can easily turn off the floor heating thanks to the technologies used in their installation.
The main heating element in warm floors is water, constantly circulating according to a specially laid pipe system. Such underfloor heating systems are in constant demand due to their practicality, and the fact that such floors have long been used in overhaul and construction have made their installation technology well -developed, which affects the amazingly long period of their service.
Swallow screed
The worst and economical of all ways is to fill with concrete. This will be a minus – short -lived, due to the fact that concrete is not a durable solution. The second method is similar to the first, but an adhesive mass is added here, thanks to this this method becomes more reliable and convenient. Minus – for drying it takes more than a month.
The most optimal way of filling is an integral of two ways. Its meaning is like this – the first layer is poured from the concrete mixture, and then the leveling mixture is already coming. This method of screed is guaranteed to last longer than the rest and betray your floor the best sound and hydro-isolation.
A more modern screed – the floors of the bulk price for which are not very high. For bulk floors, moisture protection will also be required. Film is glued to protect against moisture, and foam is placed under it. The screed then dries in ten days. Plus such a screed that the process is facilitated and will not take much effort. Thanks to the thickness of the screed (25 millimeters), it is more popular.
The principle of floor screed:
Before starting work, the surface should be cleaned from all kinds of garbage. Glue the surface for better adhesion to the screed. The mixture after kneading should be quite thick. In 2 hours you need to do work with a screed. After, where the bubbles accumulated to pierce the air to come out.
Drying lasts about 2 weeks. All this time you need to moisturize the screed. If a gun is used, then quick drying can lead to cracks.
