Hello! Domestic question for 1950s house, my carpet started to get bumps beneath, rolled back and found pink screed cracked and delaminated from concrete subfloor. Can this stuff be leveled and have laminate or lvt put over it? Causing us a headache as don't want to decorate if the floors got to be ripped up!
Magnesite must be completely removed It has to breath to survive Dig it all up (Its possibly up to 50mm thick) Then lay DPM/Visqueen sheets tanked up the walls and lay new concrete or use an epoxy liquid DPM tanked up the walls and lay a deep base screed
Sorry but you can't screed magnesite or remove it...usually full of asbestos. You can lay laminate/engineered wood over it or the new SPC rigid click. If you want LVT then best to use jumpax dual sytem for sub-floor prep and glue it down (click lvt is a bit poor)
No you can't lay anything on it bar carpet but if its swelled its already taken in moisture it's failed. The fillers in it are sawdust and wood pulp Asbestos is possible Also there will be no mechanical DPM under the slab underneath it It must be removed Get it tested for Asbestos first
Unfortunately these are the answers I've been dreading. Neighbour tested his for asbestos and came back clear. Removal and relaying of screed, is this the the type of thing a decent general builder would be capable of?
Why is it if you get a leak you get a plumber. An electric problem you hire a spark. Decorating you employ a painter but when people need a floor done they get in a builder Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk
