Laying A New Concrete Floor

Whether you are just thinking about a new concrete garage floor or ready to start planning a new one you probably have a lot of questions.

Laying a new concrete floor.

Position two or three 38mm battens depending on the width of the room on the concrete running in the direction you are working. Larger extensions often benefit from a suspended concrete floor almost all new builds are now built using this system as it is quicker you can walk on it sooner and it reduces any risk of damp coming up through the floor. As you did when laying the concrete work across the floor area completing sections about 600mm at a time. Call several contractors however.

In this video we show how we prepared it and laid it. The concrete slab needs to be made from a medium strength mix. As subfloors go concrete isn t the easiest to deal with and it can be somewhat difficult to know where to start when laying any type of flooring on concrete. Start at the wall furthest away from the doorway and lay the concrete in strips across the room of no more than 600mm wide.

Before laying the screed dampen the concrete floor using water and a bonding agent mixed in equal parts. Beam and block floors. So whether you go for vinyl or wood here is a handy guide to laying flooring on concrete. Concrete joists with lips on either side about halfway up are placed on the floor.

Part 3 of the build the concrete slab. Sure you might be satisfied to call a concrete contractor and let him tell you what you need.