Current technologies and materials help to carry out some types of home repairs on their own. To lay, for example, a floor covering (laminate), you do not need to look for laying specialists. You can easily do this yourself. When mastering the nuances of this business, the work for you will turn into folding a small designer on special latches. In passing, you can acquire some building skills for the future.
How to level floors for laminate flooring?
To begin with, look and evaluate the condition of the floor surface on which it will be necessary to lay the laminate. The maximum tolerance for its unevenness should be no more than 2 mm per 1 meter. Do not ignore this rule. If the floor curves above this value, cracks will appear on the new beautiful laminate in the near future.
Do you need that headache? Not? Then figure out how to properly level the floor, and you will not need to bitterly recall the expression that the miser pays twice. Just imagine that you will need to redo what has already been done, and you still have to level the crooked floor.
How to level the floors under the laminate if they are wooden?
Eliminating irregularities, it is necessary to pay attention to the bending and bending of the floor, as well as its creakiness. If these defects are present, they must be eliminated. Insufficient rigidity of the floor will entail its replacement completely or partial repair.
Attention, advice!
Do not use chipboard to level the floor. This material does not have a sufficient level of environmental friendliness, formaldehyde may be released during use.
Now consider how to level the floors under the laminate, if they are concrete. With such floors, the “headache” is much less. If the floor is very uneven, you will have to make a cement screed. The proportion of sand and cement is 4 x 1. Small flaws in the floor are leveled with self-leveling self-leveling mixtures. They are bred in the proportion indicated on the package.
To prepare the mixture you will need:
- Drill.
- Needle roller.
- Special mixer attachment.
- Tara for preparing the mixture.
Before laying the laminate, the screed must dry completely. A completely hardened mixture is not the fact that it is completely dry! Drying time is affected by the thicknessleveling material and temperature. You can improve the leveling properties of the mixture and speed up its drying time using a plasticizer.
Well, we also figured out how to level the concrete floor. It's time to lay the laminate.
Before laying the laminate flooring, it should be kept for a couple of days in the room where the flooring is supposed to be. This is done to adapt the coating to the temperature conditions of the home. Even if the floor is flat, it is still necessary to put a soundproof underlay on it and only then lay the laminate.
After reading this article, you have an idea of how to level the floors under the laminate. The result of following the above tips will be a laminate flooring that will last you an incredibly long time.
