Homeliness is priceless. In any case, we never spare money for repairs. This is especially true for those cases when you buy an apartment or a house in the secondary market, in which the floors were laid back in very old times.
How to
level the floor of the house? There are several ways that can suit people with a wide range of incomes.
Chipboard
This is the simplest and most straightforward method. Particleboard will be inexpensive, and you can get them in almost every hardware store. What needs to be done before work?
Firstly, if the boards of the “native” cover are completely crooked and unsteady, then you will have to correct them by re-securing them on the lags. In this case, they will not creak, and the installed plates will not bend anymore.
Before leveling the floor of the house, it is necessary to install beacons, make lining of the bars in the right places. Be sure to check all stages of work carried out using the building level. Particleboard boards themselves can be fixed with self-tapping screws. Note that their hats should not come out of the cover, so it is necessary to cut the chamfers before twisting with a drill of the appropriate diameter.
GVL sheets
This method is not so common, but no less relevant. It is performed using gypsum fiber sheets. Of course, due to their low strength and tendency to bend, the idea of laying on logs will have to be abandoned.
To level the floor of the house, in this case you need to use some kind of dry bedding. Experts say that in this role ordinary claydite has proved itself to be quite good. Before filling it, you also need to carefully fix the flooring boards, screwing in additional screws.
The filling is made in such a layer that it forms a completely flat surface and has a margin of safety for subsidence or compression. Two layers of GVL (across each other) are placed on top. Often they are fixed only with skirting boards (around the edge of the room), and the seams are sealed with glue or sealant.
Screed
Of course, using both of the above methods, you can level the floor of the house, but they do not give a 100% guarantee of strength. Only the cement screed remains . In addition, if you plan to make a tile floor, you don’t have much choice.
To do this, you need a decent amount of cement and good construction skills, as otherwise your screed will be far from ideal.
Note that its thickness should be at least four centimeters, since otherwise the floor may simply crack, unable to cope with the differences in coverage. Before leveling the floor under the tile with a screed, you need to carefully repair all cracks and too large potholes, which can contribute to the cost overrun of today's expensive cement.
Bulk floor
Keep in mind that if there are relatively even floors in the apartment or house, there is no point in making a screed. If the differences do not exceed three to four centimeters, then it would be much more reasonable to use the technology of bulk floors.
Of course, before you level the floors in the apartment with this method, you need to properly calculate your budget, since the technology itself is not too cheap.