Level Garage Floor With Screed

There are several different types of self levelling screed that includes latex self levelling floor screeds and acrylic emulsion mixed with a powder made from limestone silica.

Level garage floor with screed.

A floor screed is usually a cementitious material made from a 1 3 or 1 4 5 ratio of cement to sharp sand. It is typically applied by trowel and roller and the adequate method can be chosen depending on the. In this video we show how to level the floor with the self leveling cement. The second option and probably the most widely used of garage floor coatings is what is called a self leveling floor screed.

First the floor may be so out of level that the garage floor does not meet the bottom edge of the door. However an out of kilter garage floor may require leveling when two critical scenarios happen. If the current garage floor screed needs an overlay perhaps to level or repair then we are generally looking at a thin levelling compound. For this project we used 27 bags of self leveling cement to cover 430sqft 40m2.

It may be applied onto either a solid in situ concrete ground floor slab or onto a precast concrete floor unit. Second and far more critical is when the garage floor has begun to tilt backward toward the house. Primers are used for pre treating floors and are often applied prior to leveling materials or floor adhesives to create a base and assure good bonding of upper floor layers.