When you start doing repairs in a house or apartment, pay particular attention to the floor. Ideally, it should be flat, without cracks and holes. On such a surface, you can safely lay parquet or floorboard. But this is not always the case. Sometimes residents are faced with the need to level the floor before repairs. And if you think that this process performs an exclusively aesthetic function, you are deeply mistaken. It is easy to imagine how the furniture would stand there, and what shape parquet or laminate would be. In this article, you will learn how to level the floor with your own hands.
How to detect irregularities
To understand whether the floor is even or not, a human eye will not be enough. The most effective way to determine irregularities is to use a building level, or even better, a laser (it is he who determines the deviations of the surface with an accuracy of 0.01 mm). You can also use the proven grandfather way - pull the thread. But here you need to be very careful, because even the slightest inaccuracy can significantly affect the future state of finishing materials (laminate and so on).
How to level the floors? Surface preparation process
No construction process is complete without a preparation stage. So it is in our case. So, in order to thoroughly level the concrete base, you need to clean its entire surface from unnecessary objects (dust, stains and paint). Also, one should not forget about cracks. If they are, before aligning them you must definitely hurt
otherwise, this will lead to leakage of material.
How to level the floors? Main stage
After our surface is prepared for repair, you can safely begin construction work. The next step is to install all the beacons, the height of which further we will pour concrete on the curved floor. The best option as beacons will serve as plasterboard sheets, which can be found in any nearby store. Why choose drywall? The whole secret of this material lies in its perfectly flat surface, which will contribute to the most accurate measurements. After purchasing such sheets, you need to lay them out around the entire perimeter of the surface so that the distance between them is at least 50 and not more than 80 centimeters. The main thing to consider is the correctness of their location. That is, drywall must be placed so that it is 100 percent equal in leveling, otherwise, after pouring concrete, the floor will still remain crooked. And in order to check the accuracy of the location, you can use a conventional plywood board (the main thing is that it is not deformed) along with the building level.
Then we fix everything with screws and proceed to pouring.
How to level the floors? Final process
We proceed to the last stage using leveling mixes for the floor. Between the attached guides, pour cement together with sand, after mixing them together. Everything must be done very carefully and evenly. After the concrete has dried, you can safely begin laying parquet. Now you know how to level the floors in the apartment.