Self-leveling floors in an apartment

Before each owner doing repairs, sooner or later the question arises: what floor to make in the apartment. You can make a wooden way in the old fashion, you can cover with linoleum, laminate or parquet. And you can make a modern coating - bulk polymer floors in the apartment.

The floor is a special polymer coating. To fill this floor in the living rooms, polyurethane is used. The surface of the filling floor is made perfectly smooth. Using a wide variety of designs and colors, you can make an original floor, which will perfectly match the rest of the interior of the room. Equip such a floor can be absolutely in all rooms: in the living room and children's room, kitchen and hallway, bathroom and toilet. And thus each room will be unique and original. And by making liquid floors with a 3D effect , you will achieve an amazing visual effect.

Self-leveling floors in the apartment: advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of self-leveling floors include the following:

1. Self-leveling floors have exceptional impact resistance and hardness: they can not be scratched by thin heels or any other sharp objects.
2. This polymer coating is not exposed to water, acids, alkalis and other chemicals. If it is heavily soiled, it can be washed with any detergent. Therefore, self-leveling floors are well equipped in the bathroom or toilet.
3. The inlet floor is exceptionally fireproof. It can withstand temperatures from -35 ° C to + 65 ° C. Therefore, the floor is ideal for use in the kitchen, especially as the reviews on such kitchen floors are only positive.
4. This coating always remains perfectly smooth and shiny.
5. In addition, self-leveling floors are very durable, and the ratio of their price and service life is today the most optimal in comparison with other types of flooring.
6. The use of such a coating is environmentally safe: after full hardening, the floor does not emit any vapors harmful to humans.
7. This coating is completely monolithic. It has no seams, which greatly simplifies the care of such a filling floor.

Disadvantages of liquid floors are also available.

1. The need for a very careful alignment of the entire surface under the filling of such a floor. Classes are quite time consuming.
2. Be sure to remove the slightest droplets of moisture, otherwise pouring in damp places will exfoliate from the base and may appear cracks in the jellied cover.
3. Liquid mixture for floor pouring is toxic, but when solidified, all harmful substances evaporate, therefore, during work, care must be taken, and at the end - it is good to ventilate the room.
4. To work on the creation of a bulk floor, experienced and qualified masters are required, in addition, such works are quite expensive.

Filling technology

Before installing the floor, clean and level the base underneath it. Even if you have wooden floors, then you can mount the self-leveling floors and on such a covering.

After leveling and priming the base, a solution must be prepared, mixing the various ingredients in the form of dry mixtures into a homogeneous mass. Adding additional mixtures to such a solution, it is possible to make transparent filling floors colored and patterned, white and marbled.

Then spread the resulting mass on the prepared base, starting from the furthest corner of the room. After this, the solution must be leveled with a special needle roller. In addition to creating a flat surface, the roller helps to get rid of air bubbles. The surface should solidify well, and after that it is necessary to apply a finishing transparent coating, which will make the floor shiny or matte.

Want to create an original exclusive interior of rooms - make in the apartment liquid floors!