For a long time, the days have passed when the population did not mind living in a house with an earthen floor, and the inhabitants of the cities rejoiced at any, simplest, floor covering. The gender of a modern house should not only satisfy the aesthetic requests of any person, but also be reliable, convenient and practical. In addition, it is worth noting that modern gender often hides various communications that require periodic maintenance, or elements of the “warm floor”. Therefore, modern industrial floors should not only hide various communications and elements under it, but also ensure their normal functioning.
One of the most modern types of floors are floors based on polymer coatings resembling ordinary linoleum. However, unlike linoleum, which is simply to tend to the constructive flooring of the floor, polymer coatings are precisely coatings, and after its application they make up a single whole with the floor. Such a coating carries not only a decorative function, but also allows you to protect the constructive basis of the floor from abrasion and the destructive effects of water, steam and aggressive detergents that are actively used in everyday life.
However, in order for your bulk floor to serve you for many years, it is necessary to approach it thoroughly. At the first stage, you need to decide on the thickness of the future bulk coating. For apartments and private houses with even, horizontal and high -quality concrete floor of a fairly bulk coating with a thickness of only a few millimeters. If the floor has flaws and a small slope, the polymer thickness should be increased to compensate for defects. For rooms with high patency, regardless of the quality of the constructive floor base, it is necessary to use bulk floors up to 1 cm thick.
After you have decided on the thickness of the future sex, you must proceed to preparation of the surface. Regardless of what material the basis of your gender is made of, at the first stage it is necessary to clean it from pollution. After that, it is necessary, if possible, to eliminate the detected defects of the floor. To eliminate the irregularities and large defects of concrete floors, you can use construction solutions made on the basis of cement-sand mixture. Small bumps can be sealed with a working solution serving for filling the bulk floor, in which a small amount of sand is added.
Unlike concrete, the preparation of a wooden base is somewhat more complicated. As in the case of concrete, it is necessary to clean the surface and eliminate all defects of the wooden base. After that, it is necessary to ensure the tightness of the base, to close all the cracks and holes.
After that, the surface of the future floor must be thoroughly primed. The surface of the wooden base must be sequentially primed several times in order to prevent seeping not hardened polymer for coating. It is necessary to primer the surface immediately after the completion of the preparatory stages in order to prevent its pollution. To increase polymer adhesion, it is necessary to use primers with the addition of small sand.
Having completed the application of the primer, it is necessary to ensure the conditions under which the liquid base of the bulk floor to lose the opportunity to spread throughout the apartment. To do this, in the doorway of the room it is necessary to build a kind of «dam», the height of which will several times exceed the thickness of the future coating. After all the preparatory work is successfully completed, you can proceed to fill the polymer.
Prepare a working mixture immediately before applying. Immediately after preparation, the polymer mixture is applied to the surface of the structural base of the floor. In the process of application, it is necessary to monitor the uniformity of spreading the applied coating and eliminate them using aeration rollers and spatulas.