Hi there,
I have had a new 4.5m x 4.8m extension on the back of my house.
The old outside wall is now gone leaving us with a lovely open plan living/dining room....we are really happy with it so far.
But........
The floor levels are hugely different....over 20 mm between where the old and new floors meet at one point...perhaps a little more !
The new floor was a "latex screed" that my builder raved about.
"rock hard"...."dries harder than concrete !" he said....who was i to argue !!!
The screed was a white milkshake type consistency laid by a 3rd party and was approx 2-3 inches deep i would guess...perhaps more / perhaps less. He was chuffed to use it as he openly admitted that it saved him a stack of time putting a traditional concrete screed down.
This was poured (and then jiggled around with a long metal contraption !) onto a concrete base with reinforcement.
So questions....
1 - Latex screed.....are they any good / will it last ?
2 - What should i expect my builder to do to correct the floor level ?
He knows we planned a wood floor and speaking to an expert wood floor company, their preperation would be as there is a BS standard is that over a 2 metre span, the acceptable difference is the thickness of a £1 coin !
Should he / would he need to PVA it and then use a levelling compound ?
Is a levelling compound ok to be that sort of depth ??
I'm not unreasonable or was i perhaps expecting a little too much for the floor levels to be a lot better than that. I'm just disappointed that having to put something else on top just seems a little bit poor.
I know the carpenter who is to put the floor down was shocked.
Thanks in advance to anyone who has the time to shed some light on the latex screed and how best to sort the levels.
Thanks in advance.
I have had a new 4.5m x 4.8m extension on the back of my house.
The old outside wall is now gone leaving us with a lovely open plan living/dining room....we are really happy with it so far.
But........
The floor levels are hugely different....over 20 mm between where the old and new floors meet at one point...perhaps a little more !
The new floor was a "latex screed" that my builder raved about.
"rock hard"...."dries harder than concrete !" he said....who was i to argue !!!
The screed was a white milkshake type consistency laid by a 3rd party and was approx 2-3 inches deep i would guess...perhaps more / perhaps less. He was chuffed to use it as he openly admitted that it saved him a stack of time putting a traditional concrete screed down.
This was poured (and then jiggled around with a long metal contraption !) onto a concrete base with reinforcement.
So questions....
1 - Latex screed.....are they any good / will it last ?
2 - What should i expect my builder to do to correct the floor level ?
He knows we planned a wood floor and speaking to an expert wood floor company, their preperation would be as there is a BS standard is that over a 2 metre span, the acceptable difference is the thickness of a £1 coin !
Should he / would he need to PVA it and then use a levelling compound ?
Is a levelling compound ok to be that sort of depth ??
I'm not unreasonable or was i perhaps expecting a little too much for the floor levels to be a lot better than that. I'm just disappointed that having to put something else on top just seems a little bit poor.
I know the carpenter who is to put the floor down was shocked.
Thanks in advance to anyone who has the time to shed some light on the latex screed and how best to sort the levels.
Thanks in advance.