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Advice on Floor Level Compound

TheCeltictiger · 2022-06-24 00:31:11

Hi there, I need to put some levelling compound on a screeded concrete floor in advance of laying a lamented timber floor Do I have to apply a primer or will damping the floor suffice? How many bags of compound for a 6m x 5m floor that is level and but needs compound only to remove the marks from screeding. Any advice or…

24-06-2022 12:31am

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TheCeltictiger

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Hi there,
I need to put some levelling compound on a screeded concrete floor in advance of laying a lamented timber floor
Do I have to apply a primer or will damping the floor suffice?
How many bags of compound for a 6m x 5m floor that is level and but needs compound only to remove the marks from screeding.
Any advice or tips is appreciated

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#2 24-06-2022 3:02pm

ARGINITE

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Damping the floor should be enough. at a guess 8 to 10 bags should cover it.
What I learned while doing our floors is that self leveling compound isn't very self leveling and over working it is easy to do resulting in lumps that I ended up havng to sand down once it was dry.

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