For a flat, smooth, level surface, floor screeding should always be your number one choice. However, there are numerous different types to choose from, so make contact with your floor screed contractor, as it’s important to ensure you’ve considered all of the options that are available. Selecting the correct type of floor screed can make an enormous difference to the end result of your project. See below for a few of the different options available from JCW Floor Screeding, along with their benefits.
Fibre Reinforced Floor Screed
The top floor screeding contractors recommend fibre reinforced screed for floors. It consists of polypropylene fibres mixed into traditional screed which helps to reduce cracking due to shrinkage or pressure. It’s extra tough and boasts increased flexural strength and fatigue resistance, ensuring that your floors durable beneath finishes.
Fibre-reinforced floor screeding can be applied in the following ways:
- Directly in contact with solid concrete ground floor slabs, or with a suitable damp-proof membrane between slab and screed
- Over an insulating layer to isolate the screed from the base
- With precast concrete units or beams
- With in situ suspended floors
Higher Strength Floor Screed
The expert floor screeding contractors at JCW Floor Screeding regularly recommend strengths of 30 Nmm2 for buildings that see a great deal of foot traffic. It is particularly effective when employed to combat the effects of high point loading or on floors that rarely see any let-up from the pounding of feet.
One excellent attribute of this type of floor screeding is that it dries quicker than standard, so the floor in question need only be out of action for a comparatively short amount of time before a floor covering may be laid.
Higher-strength floor screeding can be applied in the following ways:
- Directly in contact with solid concrete ground floor slab with suitable damp proof membrane Between slab and screed over an insulating layer to isolate the screed from the base
- With precast concrete units or beams with reinforcement
- With in situ suspended floors
- As a topping to lightweight screeds based on lightweight aggregates
Quick Drying Sand and Cement Floor Screed
If your project requires a very quick turnover, we highly recommend our quick-drying sand and cement floor screed. Depending on the conditions of your site (temperature, humidity etc.), your floor screeding may be ready to receive any covering after only five days.
Despite the impressive speed at which it works, this type of screed still offers a superb level of strength and can withstand heavy foot traffic and point loading.
Quick-drying sand and cement floor screeds can be applied in the following ways:
- Directly in contact with concrete ground floor slab with a suitable damp proof membrane between slab and screed
- Over an insulating layer to isolate the screed from the base
- With precast concrete units or beams with reinforcement
- With in situ suspended floors
- As a topping to lightweight screeds based on lightweight aggregates
All of the products from JCW Floor Screeding conform to the requirements of BS EN 13813. Our specialist floor screeding contractors successfully install approximately 400,000m2 of floor screed per year, so you can rely on us to completely understand your project and deliver the quality of service you require, to whatever deadline you specify.
For further information about the types of floor screed we offer, or to learn more about our services, all you need to do is call our floor screeding contractors today on 01204 387 029 or your our handy online form to get in touch and receive a quote.
