Floor Prep
What makes floor preparations so essential...
Preparing concrete surfaces for coatings, overlays, tiles, carpet or repair materials is a time-consuming task that many contractors perform begrudgingly or are tempted to overlook altogether. But if you've ever skipped this essential first step in the process, you undoubtedly learned the hard way how critical it is to the success of the finished job. Concrete floor preparation is essential and ensures a complete flat surface where the surface is clean and ready for new flooring. It reduces future quality issues with new laid flooring whether carpet, tiles, timber or other substrate. It rectifies holes, cracks and flooring irregularities. Surfaces are also prepared prior to various floor-coating installations in industrial, commercial, and institutional applications.
A meticulous process...
Although they look smooth to the naked eye, brand new concrete slabs are never completely flat. If you have just installed concrete as a foundation for other coverings, you’re going to need floor preparation. Following our meticulous process, your new surface will be perfect for the next stage of installation. Concrete floor preparation performs a range of functions. Firstly, it is a great way to remove any mess and debris left by other tradespeople, including plasterers and painters. Concrete surface preparation also removes the high and low points that naturally occur in the concrete pouring process. Having a completely flat and even surface allows for other flooring methods — like tiling, carpet, and floorboards — to more easily adhere to the concrete.
Whats involved...
Grinding
The initial stage of any floor preparation works is grinding of concrete surface to remove impurities and contaminants for bonding purposes.
Priming
Once the floor has been cleaned and vaccumed and made dust free, a primer is applied to create a bond between the concrete subtsrate and levelling compounds that will be applied.
Topping
After the cementitious overaly has been applied the floor is ready to receive a number of chosen overlays such as carpte, vinyl, epoxy and others.
