Floors & Floor Coverings Feature
Interiors
Timesaving solutions for flooring installations
Flooring installations in social housing settings often face pressure to be completed as quickly as possible. Fortunately, certain processes and combinations of innovative new products can dramatically cut the time this takes. Neil Sanders from F. Ball and Co. Ltd., offers solutions for installing floorcoverings in time-critical situations.
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ore than ever before, flooring contractors face pressures to complete flooring installations to ever-shorter timescales without compromising on finished results. Tis is frequently because
the pace of modern construction leaves a small window in which to install floorcoverings, or areas can only remain off limits for short periods. In these situations, it is useful to be aware of procedures and product innovations that can speed up each step in the floor covering installation process – from making sure the floor is smooth enough to receive floorcoverings to finally securing floorcoverings using an adhesive.
MOISTURE MANAGEMENT Te first step in any flooring installation should be to check that the subfloor is suitably sound, smooth and dry, including conducting a moisture test to determine subfloor moisture levels. Where a moisture test indicates that relative
humidity (RH) levels within the subfloor are above 75% (65% if wood floor coverings are to be installed), a moisture management solution will be required to prevent floor failure. For these situations, single coat waterproof surface membranes are available
that will fully cure in as little as three hours to isolate residual construction moisture or rising damp where RH values are up to 98%. Two-coat systems can create a barrier against residual construction moisture
where there are RH values of up to 95% in less than two hours. Te first coat requires 15-20 minutes curing time; the second requires a further 30 minutes to cure.
LEVELLING COMPOUNDS A levelling compound is recommended to create a perfectly smooth base for the receipt of floorcoverings. Levelling compounds, in particular, have seen
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