Use of Leveling Compounds When Installing Ceramic Floor Tile

Leveling compounds are ideal for smoothing out a subfloor surface prior to installing ceramic floor tiles. To ensure your ceramic floor tiles will not crack over time, it is critical that they be installed on a rigid and level subfloor.

Leveling compounds are cement based and are easy to apply. They will adhere well to both concrete and wood surfaces.

When preparing a floor for the installation of ceramic floor tile, additional material is typically installed on existing base in the existing home base. The existing ground is usually constructed of concrete, 3/4th inch OSB or plywood. Concrete, backerboard, or exterior plywood is usually on the ground, to have increased the stiffness of the floor area. The more rigid on the ground and is to crack, the less likely the ceramic tiles.

To ensure that the bottom surface layer and stiff, is a leveling may be necessary, the levelingConnection can be added to the ground to adjust a dips or bumps in the ground. Dips and humps can occur because of defects in the concrete slab or floor joists, or by faults in the base of the subsoil.

The substrate must be clean and free of dust, before applying a leveling compound to your subfloor. If it is not, you can create a connection between the poor and leveling the subsoil.

To apply leveling, you can use a trowel, broad knife and / orLength of 2 "x4".

Use the length of 2 "x" 4, to see how much leveling you need by viewing them on the surface of the subfloor to see how much of a dip or hump you have to do.

Note that leveling compounds set up quickly. Therefore, it is best to make small batches at a time.