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Concrete screed on wood floor

  • 26-10-2007 9:00am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12


    Apologies if this is a stupid quiestion.
    I am making final arrangements for my 2 storey uber-extension. The upper floor will consist of plywood on timber joists. I would like to put a wet room on this floor. I was thinking of pouring a concrete screed directly onto the plywood, maybe 4 inches thick. Advantages:
    1. Step up into wet room.
    2. Slope to drainage trap at one end.
    3. Can install underfloor heating.
    4. Can incorporate traps/Ubends/pipes etc. into screed as much as possible rather than going through plywood at several points.
    For finish, I am considering painting screed with resin paint. The partition around the wet room will be glass blocks and/or stud partition built up on the edge of the screed.
    Is this madness? Will the concrete crack due to movement of the timber floor? Any thoughts would be appreciated.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    100mm concrete will over stress your timber floor strutcure

    If you dont mind step , do a "step over " at the door . Use tilting fillets on the floor joists to make falls - like as with a flat roof .

    Use Acrylicon -- looks like vinyl floorcovering , but it is a site wet applied system gives - jointless finish that can be "coved" to the wall , that is turn up the wall to provide a skirting . Carefully select a good floor drain . So long as you well wrap the drain pipes for sound insulation no big deal to run in floor ( dont butcher the joists , of course - think about pipe / joist directions )

    Use an electrical mat form of underfloor heating ( Devi Mat is one brand name )


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 509 ✭✭✭bertie1


    The concrete will crack as the timber expands & contracts with the temperature difference.


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