Hi.
I am new to this forum, and my home suffered a flood last October.
My house is around 30 years old and has a concrete raft foundation with a floating floor on top... Visqueen sheeting, 50mm polystyrene, and 22mm chipboard Caberfloor.
Recently an area of the floor lounge/dining room has been checked, and the floating floor has been impacted by the saturated concrete raft slab, although the dry cert was issued back in early Feb. 2025, so we have one half of a house nearly finished reinstatement-wise and the other half as of this evening with the floating floor stripped out and now looking at the concrete raft slab.
The slab is now considered dry by the investigating guys.
The insurance company builders are now considering what type of screed to lay as time is now of the essence.
The final floor covering will be carpet.
The screed depth will need to cope with anything from 72mm to around 90mm at worst.
My shopfitting days head screams bring in bagged sand & cement screed with a drying accelerator added, and the heroes who work on their knees with the long straight edges will know exactly how to give me as flat a floor as possible but also deal with the irregularities.
The builder has suggested Anilhydrate.....sorry about the spelling...pumped liquid screed, but now he is worrying about the drying time.
Carpets were due to be laid around 24th July and skirting s, etc., and decorating works before that.
So I am pretty clued up on my shopfitting work, but any advice would help ref what would be a good approach to screeding these two areas of my home as I need to have an understanding of this ref dealing with our builder, as the last thing I need after all this time out of my home is moldy carpets.
Sorry for the long post.....cheers
Dave
I am new to this forum, and my home suffered a flood last October.
My house is around 30 years old and has a concrete raft foundation with a floating floor on top... Visqueen sheeting, 50mm polystyrene, and 22mm chipboard Caberfloor.
Recently an area of the floor lounge/dining room has been checked, and the floating floor has been impacted by the saturated concrete raft slab, although the dry cert was issued back in early Feb. 2025, so we have one half of a house nearly finished reinstatement-wise and the other half as of this evening with the floating floor stripped out and now looking at the concrete raft slab.
The slab is now considered dry by the investigating guys.
The insurance company builders are now considering what type of screed to lay as time is now of the essence.
The final floor covering will be carpet.
The screed depth will need to cope with anything from 72mm to around 90mm at worst.
My shopfitting days head screams bring in bagged sand & cement screed with a drying accelerator added, and the heroes who work on their knees with the long straight edges will know exactly how to give me as flat a floor as possible but also deal with the irregularities.
The builder has suggested Anilhydrate.....sorry about the spelling...pumped liquid screed, but now he is worrying about the drying time.
Carpets were due to be laid around 24th July and skirting s, etc., and decorating works before that.
So I am pretty clued up on my shopfitting work, but any advice would help ref what would be a good approach to screeding these two areas of my home as I need to have an understanding of this ref dealing with our builder, as the last thing I need after all this time out of my home is moldy carpets.
Sorry for the long post.....cheers
Dave
