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Poured Concrete Floor Levels

  • 18-02-2008 11:04AM
    #1
    Ted10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭


    I'm sure this has been asked many times but I couldn't seem to find a definitive answer. Do people pour the screed at different levels in order to compensate for different floor types.
    I intend to tile my hall and kitchen and put solid wood floors in my study and sitting room and I wonder how to compensate for the changes in levels. I don't want to have a noticeable step up.
    Would using different depths of insulation in the different rooms allow me to still have the same depth of screed while giving me the difference in levels or how is it done ?


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  • #2
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Ted10 wrote: »
    I'm sure this has been asked many times but I couldn't seem to find a definitive answer. Do people pour the screed at different levels in order to compensate for different floor types.
    I intend to tile my hall and kitchen and put solid wood floors in my study and sitting room and I wonder how to compensate for the changes in levels. I don't want to have a noticeable step up.
    Would using different depths of insulation in the different rooms allow me to still have the same depth of screed while giving me the difference in levels or how is it done ?

    What we did was pour the finished flor all the one level. Like yourself we intend to put down a combination of ceramic tiles and wooden floors and my builder / brother in law has suggested that all our wooden floors be nailed down (he recons its a job for life compared to modern flooring techniques). So we will be laying plywood to nail the floor boards down to and then bringing uo the other floors with a screed to have all a uniform height. Hope that answers your question.

    Daniel


  • #3
    Ted10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭Ted10


    Did that hold you up much having to pour concrete a second time ?


  • #4
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Ted10 wrote: »
    Did that hold you up much having to pour concrete a second time ?



    We haven't poured it yet, but it will only be a sand and cement screed, troweled and floated. He recons he'll do it in a few hours. Also, it saved us powerfloating the floors when we poured the readymix.


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