MIND = Make It No Danger It is that wonderful time of the year again. Playful snowflakes, the smell of pine from the Christmas tree, the festive spice of cinnamon, the suave flavour of oranges, stockings hung by the chimney…Yes, the Christmas break is approaching quickly and everyone is excited, including Santa, his reindeers and...
Do you need to lay or are you worried about large format tiles placed directly over cracked screeds? Have you heard about crack inducement joints? Read on. As you can see large format tiles are being placed over cracks Not dealing correctly with cracked screeds is one of the main causes of tile floor failure. Keep...
The Screed Scientist website is great for expanding your screeding knowledge. And this month nearly 6000 visitors used it to help them with their projects. Some of our most popular articles have been related to Underfloor heating with many of our readers looking for detailed information on how to make sure that their underfloor...
Once your old floors are stripped of their floor covering, it is important to make a thorough assessment of the remaining substrate to make sure it is in a suitable condition to take on the new flooring. Some of the basic aspects that need to be looked at before laying the new floor finish...
The quality of the screeding material plays a major role in determining the final strength and quality of a screed. Though one of the major ingredients, Portland Cement is a quality assured manufactured product, careless handling and storage often leads to deterioration of its quality and wastage. Similarly, aggregates should also be stored and...
Is it Christmas already?? 2014 has absolutely sped by. Our mission to be informative, helpful and educational in all matters screeding, continues unabated. With the approaching Christmas shutdown the screed scientist wants to remind you to make sure your screed and screeding materials are well protected before you go away. Winter brings with it freezing temperatures,...
Over the last couple of years, we’ve received a lot of positive comments about our articles. SO over the next couple of weeks we’ll be going through our archives and grouping our articles together in a series of “what you need to know” guides.
Following on from Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 1 – 3 we present tips 4 -6. 4. Screed Mix Check that the raw materials and the mixing of screed are correct. The ideal mix proportion for normal cement/sand screeds is - 1:3 to 1:5 – that is 1 part Portland Cement ( which complies...
Is seems there is much confusion in the industry around the concepts of the “flatness of screed” and the “levels” of screed. In an attempt to demystify these two very different concepts we have created some diagrams to explain the passing and the failing conditions. See below. Surface Regularity Fail Departure from Datum Fail To see the...
Following on from Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 4 – 6 we present tips 7 -10. 7. Finishing Check that the finishing technique is appropriate for the final floor finish that will be used. Wood floating followed by steel trowelling can produce a smooth surface which is found to be satisfactory for most...
