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I am going to have glued parquet installed in the living room. The subfloor consists of boards with quite large gaps between them, and the flooring installer has said that we should use a self-leveling compound to raise it a few millimeters to achieve a good level and a suitable surface.
To my question:
Should the largest gaps be filled with regular filler before using the self-leveling compound? I read about this in some kind of construction magazine, but I thought I'd ask the all-knowing forum to be on the safe side.
What would the advantages be?
/Elin
I am going to have glued parquet installed in the living room. The subfloor consists of boards with quite large gaps between them, and the flooring installer has said that we should use a self-leveling compound to raise it a few millimeters to achieve a good level and a suitable surface.
To my question:
Should the largest gaps be filled with regular filler before using the self-leveling compound? I read about this in some kind of construction magazine, but I thought I'd ask the all-knowing forum to be on the safe side.
What would the advantages be?
/Elin
Seal it!
I have a couple of acquaintances who hired "craftsmen" to tile the hallway floor, and these bunglers floated it on the old wooden floor, causing the geothermal pump in the basement to break down. It leaked straight through the joists
I have a couple of acquaintances who hired "craftsmen" to tile the hallway floor, and these bunglers floated it on the old wooden floor, causing the geothermal pump in the basement to break down. It leaked straight through the joists
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Yep, just as Fasting65 & ByggaNytt say, you have to seal ...and not just the largest but ALL gaps.kloka_elin said:
...the advantages should be that you keep the filler where it should be.
Ok, I get the hint! Thanks for all the answers.
They weren't exactly gaps, but rather grooves between the tongues, but certainly a liter or two of filler could have run down there... I thought that self-leveling compound was more expensive than regular filler, and therefore should ideally only be used for the actual leveling and not to fill in angles and corners, but see how one can be mistaken.
Now it turns out that it's probably better to lay a subfloor of masonite, so the self-leveling problem is out of the question for this time. But there will surely be more opportunities to test my newfound knowledge!
/Elin
Thanks for all the answers.They weren't exactly gaps, but rather grooves between the tongues, but certainly a liter or two of filler could have run down there... I thought that self-leveling compound was more expensive than regular filler, and therefore should ideally only be used for the actual leveling and not to fill in angles and corners, but see how one can be mistaken.
Now it turns out that it's probably better to lay a subfloor of masonite, so the self-leveling problem is out of the question for this time. But there will surely be more opportunities to test my newfound knowledge!
/Elin