There are many types of floors, including rubber floors, ceramic floor tiles, and solid wood floors. Each floor has its own unique characteristics. For example, rubber flooring, do you know about rubber flooring? Rubber flooring is also called sound-proof rubber flooring, gym rubber flooring, and can be used indoors and outdoors. Here are the precautions for rubber flooring installation.
Precautions for rubber floor installation
A) The installer should understand the following details or obtain relevant information
- Does the construction unit have lifting equipment available for use?
- Is the storage or construction area isolated and locked from other areas?
- Is there water supply, electricity supply?
- Staged design for installation or interruption of installation.
-Special obstacles: such as installation in a room where other workers are working, particularly high temperature and poor ventilation during installation, etc.
- Type and condition of the subfloor, whether priming or leveling is required.
- Whether there is screed for underfloor heating.
- Non-general requirements or special tasks for flooring, e.g. office chairs on wheels, trucking, chemicals, electrical insulation, conductivity, etc.
-The shape of the connection with the adjacent part in the building.
- type and number of openings for pipes, etc.
- Is there any other shape of floor on the outside of rectangular, obtuse or round surfaces, stairs.
-Issuing invoices according to on-site measurement and accurately marked drawings.
- Connection of slabs or bricks to skirting boards.
- Is there a damp-proof layer in rooms without a basement, or above rooms with high temperature (such as boiler rooms, laundry rooms, etc.)?
B) When an order has been placed, the following points must be kept in mind:
- Check the dimensions of the room on site - maybe a difference of a few centimeters decides whether a whole slab or brick is suitable (cutting off the material is not economical).
-Selection and supply of required auxiliary materials (eg primer, screed adhesive, joint compound, heat welding rod, type pieces).
C) Before installing --
The installer should check that the subfloor is suitable for installation. If you notice any of the following, write them down:
1. The subfloor is very uneven
2. Cracks in the surface of the subfloor
3. The subfloor is not sufficiently dry
4. The subfloor surface is not strong enough
5. Subfloor surface is too rough or porous
6. The surface of the subfloor is dirty or stained, with oil, wax, paint, lacquer, etc.
7. The height of the subfloor is not suitable for the height of the adjacent part of the building
8. Indoor temperature or ventilation conditions are not suitable
Test/Correct Weaknesses/Prepare
1. The subfloor is very uneven
Measure with a spirit level and bubble level. The following deviations are allowed:
The allowable value of distance deviation between measuring points (in centimeters) does not exceed 0.1m 1.0m 4.0m 10.0m 15.0m 2 4 10 12 15mm
The leveled subfloor cannot be walked on for at least 3 days after the surface treatment is completed, and building materials cannot be piled up even after 3 days. Generally speaking, it takes 21 days for the subfloor to bear any load.
People will complain if the surface of the floor is covered with ripples.
If the subfloor surface is uneven or rough, level and smooth it with screed or filler material. Stone or ceramic floors are generally very uneven. Then it is necessary to repeat the leveling operation several times.
2. Surface cracks
A distinction should be made between hairline cracks or fine cracks (≤0.3 mm) and larger cracks. If hairline cracks affect only the surface of the screed subfloor (no vertical movement of the screed), such cracks are negligible.
Larger cracks (above 0.3 mm) usually penetrate the entire leveling layer, which will cause the leveling part to move vertically when the layer is stressed, especially when dynamic tendons are used.
Reasons for this may be, for example, insufficient or uneven thickness, too fast drying, insufficient force to the protrusions, recesses and edges of the columns, or incorrect composition of the leveling mortar.
Such cracks must be repaired properly (this is usually part of the screed installer's job. When repairing, sprinkle quartz sand over the crack while it is wet to ensure a firm bond with the screed.
3. The subfloor is not dry enough
Excess moisture is often the cause of damage. This very important measurement is most reliably made with the tried and tested CM instrument (Moisture-Gas Manometer).
If the atmospheric humidity is always high, the equilibrium moisture of the subfloor is increased, and the screed can also be laid if the humidity of the screed is increased (consult the adhesive manufacturer). Note that subfloors take a little longer to dry. It can also be tested with an electrical meter. The test should be done in the wettest place such as the least ventilated corner of the room or where the screed is thickest (if known). The cure time of a subfloor is difficult to predict as it is affected by many factors such as screed thickness, air temperature, ventilation, atmospheric humidity, etc. The age of the sections will tell, but assume the supporting substrate (eg concrete layer) is fairly dry when the screed is laid. (Before laying the leveling layer, in order to prevent the remaining moisture in the concrete from rolling to the leveling subfloor, lay a layer of plastic film).
4. The surface is not strong enough
Before laying floor coverings, check to see that the screed, primer or adhesive is firmly bonded to the subfloor. There are no reliable portable gauges and gauges for this purpose. But test it with a sharp knife, nail or similar, quickly scratch the surface, if sparks occur, then it is hard enough.
If marks or grooves are scratched, people will have objections. In this case, is the primer used to harden the surface or is the soft layer mechanically removed.
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