How to lay laminate flooring on uneven concrete floor

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Installing laminate flooring on a concrete floor with top tips to laying laminate flooring for each one who ask How to lay laminate flooring on uneven concrete floor - the work itself is not complicated. Much more difficult is the preparation of this work. Consider what measures have to take to get a good basis for a laminate board.

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The reference surface for lay laminate flooring :

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Laminate is placed over the substrate, which in turn is placed on a concrete slab or rough screed. The main feature of laminate flooring is that it is going from individual dosochnyh elements.

Between these elements are connected by a tongue and groove system. If the base surface contains even minor defects, in the life of the floor grooves with crests begin to break down, and a laminated splendor gradually transformed into a set of unrelated boards.

Laying laminate on uneven concrete base is only possible after a careful balance it!

On the methods of leveling floor for laminate

There are three ways leveling subfloors . The first of these is used, if the elevation changes do not exceed 2 cm It is based on the use of self-leveling mixture (level-mass).

With more severe irregularities (2 to 5 cm), the same leveling leveling mixture is poured over the concrete or screed. Screed needed in situations where you want to raise the floor at 5-10 cm

If you need to raise the floor level to a height of about 10 cm, used sheets of plywood or chipboard (the method of "dry" screed).

Consider how these three methods are applied in practice.

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Practical aspects of floor leveling

how to lay laminate flooring on a concrete floor or plywood base? 

Please note the following:

• before pouring the mass-level surface of the slab or screed carefully primed;
• leveling compound is prepared in small portions;
• the portions are interconnected by means of a needle roller;
• for making cement screed taken not less than 400 marks;
• pouring the concrete layer is performed at a pre-exposed beacons;
• topcoat after dialing solution contains the necessary strength;
• "Dry" screed is being built on top of damp-proof base;
• method of "dry screed" requires construction of floor joists.

Finally, we note that with laminate must use padded - laying laminate flooring on a concrete floor with a substrate provides a truly reliable and quality floor.

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