Relatively new technology for creating a solid, reliable and smooth base for laying the finishing flooring today is the design of a floating gender. A number of preferential features and simplicity of installation contribute to the widespread use of this technology during construction, as well as the repair of residential and commercial buildings.

Advantages / Disadvantages of Floating Paul

The popularity of the floating floor device is largely due to its advantages over other types of roughing, including:

• high floor strength due to multi-layered design;
• high sound insulation indicators due to the lack of fixation to the walls and the base of the building;
• the finishing coating is not deformed in the process of shrinkage or diffusion due to the presence of a deformation seam made of dense insulation;
• invariance of the floor design with significant temperature fluctuations caused by a warm floor system;
• uniformity of the load distribution during operation;
• the lack of a screens caused by the lack of fasteners, which, through a short period of time weaken and come into disrepair;
• simplicity and high installation speed due to the lack of labor-intensive work;
• duration of operation.

Of course, like any construction, the floating floor has one significant disadvantage - a decrease in the height of the room. In connection with this circumstance, the installation of the floor is better when conducting overhaul.

Thus, the mass of advantages significantly outweighs the only negative design, which completely explains the promising interest in the population in the floating gender.

Floating floor structure

In most cases, the floating floor is created in the form of a multilayer structure comprising:

• vaporizolation;
• insulation, simultaneously performing sound absorption functions;
• waterproofing;
• the top layer of the floor, which contributes to the final alignment of the surface to lay the flooring on it, while ensuring additional insulation. The upper layer is performed by concrete screed, plywood, chipboard, sheets of gypsum and other materials. The main thing is that the material is solid enough and is able to withstand the weight of furniture, people during operation.

The design of the floor is far from randomly named floating, because its main feature is the absence of any rigid bundle relative to the bearing elements of the room. When installing the floor, any fixation of materials with the use of nails, screws, glue and other fasteners to the walls and base is excluded. In this case, materials can be bonded in any way. Despite the lack of fasteners, the floating floor has sufficient strength to withstand heavy loads characteristic even for industrial premises.

Currently, a fairly wide range of building materials, characterized by properties and purpose is used for the manufacture of floating structures. In this regard, the structure of the floor largely depends on the combination of a certain type of materials, forming the diversity of subspecies of this new technology.

Types of floating floor

The final variant of the multilayer design is formed and adjusted in each particular case individually, based on the type of materials used and the desired outcome results relative to indicators of noise and thermal insulation.

Due to the diversity of building materials and embodiments of their combination, the floating design is arranged by:

• concrete screed - created in cases where high sexual strength is needed exposed to extensive loads. This is the most durable design of all kinds. The concrete floating floor is characterized by high heat and noise insulation indicators, as well as resistant to temperature fluctuations. At the same time, the strength of the screed is largely determined by the quality and brand of concrete. The main disadvantage of such a design is the need for a thorough dryer of the upper layer;

• dry screed - used to align the surface for the purpose of subsequent laying of the floor type. When creating a floating floor screed, the main thing is to get a filling from the ceramisite, quartz or perlite sand as possible density affecting the durability of the entire design. From concrete floor, a dry screed is distinguished by a small load on the overlap, the lack of time on drying, which makes it possible to immediately begin the installation of the finish coating. A characteristic minus dry screed is bad moisture resistance. However, this problem is solved by applying high quality waterproofing material in the design. Floating floors are the easiest option from this category, the design of which consists only of snowproofing, waterproofing and sheet material (plywood, drying plates, chipboard) without the use of a rolled insulation. The simplified version is ideal in cases where it is necessary to do the floor with the device without a significant reduction in the height of the room;

• the coating is represented by floating wooden floors in the form of a tipped board, laminate, parquet. Installation of elements of this type of coating is carried out by means of a lock connection, the glue either according to the "spike-groove" technology. At the same time, the precast coating is placed on a special substrate without creating a multilayer design. Such imitation of the floating floor is more suitable in the presence of a perfectly level reason, since the operational period of the coating itself depends on the quality of the prepared base, as well as with a minor level of noise to be reduced. Of all the coatings of the team type, the caporic floating floating floor has the most effective noise and thermal insulation. In general, the combined floor is characterized by simplicity and speed of installation, a very low load on the bearing base and a low cost. However, in terms of sound insulation, it is significantly inferior to other types of floating gender.

Thus, each type of floating floor is inherent different from other manufacturing technology, as well as the materials participating in this process.

Floating floor creation technology

Along with a variety of species and structures of the structure, the unified technology for creating floating floors does not exist. This is due to the diversity of grounds for which the floor is mounted and materials that are made on its manufacture.

Regardless of the selected type of floor, you must first prepare the base by following the following operations:

• dismantle the old coating;
• seal deep cracks with cement mortar;
• get rid of speakers from the base of elements with the help of a grinder or other tools;
• clean the surface from the accumulated garbage and dust.

Stages of work on the creation of a floating floor with their own hands depend on the type of chosen design.

Concrete band screed

When creating a concrete floating floor, the technology of work is largely similar to the operations on the flooring device on the cement-sand tie:

• laying the vapor barrier material is carried out so that the edges of the film enter the wall to the height of the estimated level of the floor. If the width of the material is less than the width of the room, then the pitching of the seams is carried out by 15-20 cm, after which the joints are sampled by scotch;
• on top of the vaporizolation, mineral wool is placed or a foam indentation from walls in 1 cm;
• the gaps formed between the walls and insulation are filled with the same insulation to the height, slightly exceeding the level of the finished floor. If the surplus of the insulation when installing the plinth will be interpreted, they can always be cut;
• laying the polyethylene film is carried out similarly to vapor barrier;
• to increase the strength characteristics of the entire structure, it is desirable to use a reinforced grid, which is pre-placed above the insulation, to a height of 1-2 cm, after which the floor is filling with a thickness of 6-8 cm. For uniform drying of a layer of screed, after a day, the surface must be mixed Water and cover with cellophane, leaving so complete drying.

Laying the finishing coating, as well as all the layers of the design, is made with a gap of 1 cm after 14-20 days necessary for complete rejection of the screed.

Plinths are attached only to the wall in order to prevent sound transmission bridges. At the same time, the floor to the lower edge of the plinth should also remain free space 1-2 mm. At the end of the work, this clearance is embarrassed by silicone sealant.

Dry floor screed

In most cases, dry screed includes 3 layers:

• parosolation - stacked only on the base, without bending the ends of the film on the wall;
• the damping strip of mineral wool or foam plastic thick up to 1 cm - is installed throughout the perimeter of the room;
• failure from the ceramisit or sand - recalls with the help of a flat layer rule on a predetermined level;
• Chipboard, plywood, gypsum fiber sheets - are placed on top of frustration in 2 layers. At the same time, the second layer falls perpendicular to the location of the sheets of the first layer to overlapping the pitching seams. Between the plates are connected through adhesive compositions intended for drying.

As a result, it turns out perfectly evenly and thin, but at the same time a durable surface, ready for laying the finishing flooring and the subsequent installation of the plinth, as with a device of a concrete screed floor.

This is the easiest option of the floor floating unit. In addition to the above layers, the foam or mineral wool can additionally be placed on top of the backfill, which increase both heat, sound insulation several times, and the strength properties of the floor.

Precast coatings

Installation of precast coatings is performed either on a special elastic substrate in the form of foamed polyethylene, or on top of the floor, made using a floating floor technology along a dry screed.

Thus, all types of floating gender in one degree or another differ from each other in many criteria. However, with a concrete floating floor device, the sound insulation reaches 50%, while the installation of the floor using a dry screed or a precast coating does not allow to overshadow the limit of 25%. Based on the above, the choice of a certain type of construction depends on a number of factors, largely determined by the purpose and the load on the mounted surface.