How to fill the floors in a private house

Do you want to fill the floors in your house yourself?? This might work great for you.

All that is required of you is the preparation of the necessary consumables, as well as their preliminary calculation. Otherwise, the repair may turn out to be almost “golden” for you. After that, the process of pouring the floor with concrete begins, which does not require special skills from you. The main thing is to try to make the floor as even as possible, then you can easily lay ceramic tiles or lay linoleum.

Pouring concrete floors

We start by preparing the base surface for the future concrete floor. We remove the top layer of soil to the required depth. We try to make so that there are no dents and bumps on the surface. The next step is to put out the surface with gravel or broken brick, using a vibro -traffic. Not everyone can have such a tool at hand, then you have to do it manually. But, this can take a lot of time, especially if the area of ​​large sizes. Therefore, it is better to look for a vibrrambox, maybe one of your friends will borrow it to you for a while.

How to fill the floors in a private house

The second stage of the floor filling is the heat and waterproofing device. In this case, the roofing material is good material in this case. Although, if you are sure that your home is not afraid of underground waters, then you can save a little on the family budget. Having laid the usual polyethylene film in several layers. Here we do not insist on any one material, it all depends on your capabilities, preferences and desires.

After waterproofing, we proceed to laying the heat-insulating material. In the role of it can be foam boards or expanded clay.

How to fill the floors in a private house

The first option is already quite outdated, but it can still be used, just like glass wool.

So we come to the very pouring of the floor with concrete. You need to start pouring concrete from the far corner of the room, gradually moving towards the door. First you need to set the level of restrictive rails. It is important that in this step the final layer is under the reinforced metal frame. As reinforcement, you can also use an ordinary chain-link mesh. Thus, the top layer will become more impact resistant.

The final stage of laying the concrete floor. It is necessary to make a neat screed using a leveling layer of pure cement, which is diluted with water until a liquid slurry is obtained. There are even special leveling compounds for these purposes.

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After the walls and partitions were erected in the house, we align the floor, the so -called “filling method”. This operation begins with the installation of guide beacons, which will be a certain guideline for leveling the floor. What are beacons? These are thin long sticks that are installed over the entire area along the room. The 1st beacon is installed against the wall at a distance of 20-30 millimeters from it. 2nd and subsequent – at a distance from the last 1000 – 1100 millimeters. Beacons are installed on a cement or thick gypsum mortar. After that, using the “Rule” tool and the building level, we check what is the horizontalness in all directions. Then we wait until the beacons dry and proceed to pour the floor with cement mortar.

We make the solution from dry mixes for the floor and water. We start pouring from the corner, gradually filling the entire surface.

How to fill the floors in a private house

Using the rule, we level the surface, that is, we make sure that its even edge moves along the guide bars, as if on rails. After leveling the 1st portion of the solution, prepare the second and so on. If the consistency is different, then convex joints will form, which should not be allowed.

The time for drying the floor poured with concrete is from 10 to 30 days.