What Is Floor Preparation?

What is Floor Preparation? Floor preparation is the process of preparing the existing concrete slab or timber subfloor to receive a new flooring system or coating while ensuring that your new flooring or coating will look great, lay flat, stay bonded, and not fail for many years to come.

You cannot skip proper Floor Preparation. Every surface needs to be clean, level, free of existing adhesives, and within moisture tolerances, for the type of flooring or coating that you will be installing.

Floor Preparation on Concrete Subfloors is the process of using Concrete Grinders to reduce the size of humps (high spots) in Concrete Slabs and a Floor Levelling Compound to fill in the low areas. This is done primarily to prepare the concrete slab for laying floor coverings with minimal tolerances.

Floor preparation on Timber Subfloors is also the process of Sanding Timber Subfloors to remove any residue that may be left from previous flooring systems. The Timber subfloor is then primed before the use of Floor Levelling Compounds to fill in the low areas to allow the successful installation of a new flooring system.

Without proper Floor Preparation, many problems can arise once you’ve installed your new flooring or coating. If you have ever seen:

– Failing Flooring Systems
– Uneven Floors
– Floors that creak when walked on
– Floor Coverings that peel up
– Concrete Coatings that peel up
– Coatings Bubbling and Delaminating

You will notice that the correct Floor Preparation needs were not met before the installation of the new flooring system or coating, resulting in it failing, which will also mean that insurance will not cover the costs, as you did not install the product to their specifications.

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