Floor Tile Leveling System

Posted by Acufloor on December 16th, 2020

Nice looking floors are extremely important for every home or a commercial building.Such floors not only add to the aesthetics of your home but also make significant impact on its real estate value.Efficient flooring can make your home look more attractive and luxurious.

When it comes to choosing flooring for your home, you have a wide variety of flooring options to choose from, such as:

• Carpet
• Tile
• Hardwood
• Laminate
• Vinyl

 Although flooring preference is a matter of personal choice, yet irrespective of your flooring option, you will be required to create a perfect flat floor before installing the chosen flooring material.

Changing flooring with tiles or any other flooring material is a technical job and preferably should be done by experts as it requires a perfect floor leveling. By employing the best tile leveling system, expert technicians can help you get an attractive and long lasting tiled floor.

Well laid ceramic or big sized vitrified tiles are the assurance of safety and durability and that can be achieved by using the best floor tile leveling system that help in achieving a solid well-leveled tiled floor.

Floor leveling compounds

For creating a new floor, you will be required to remove the chipped floor and remove the unevenness of floor. In order to accomplish the task, floor leveling compounds are used on concrete sub-floor.By filling low spots and cracks in a concrete subfloor with mortar, any other concrete patching compound or self leveling concrete; the desired floor leveling is maintained.

Self- leveling concrete

Self-leveling concrete is polymer-modified compound or cement that requires only a small amount of water, for creating a flat, strong and smooth surface.

There are two main types of self-leveling compounds that are available as a powder that comes with a latex liquid in a separate container. When powder and latex are mixed, self-leveling compound is formed.

The other type of self-leveling concrete or compound comes in a bag containing powder mixed with the latex compound. In order to use it, you will be required to mix it with water.

Apart from offering the most smooth flat floor surface,self leveling concrete/ compounds offer benefits like time saving, being quick to set and easy to install.

Tools used for floor leveling

The floor leveling tools usedin the best floor tile leveling system that help in creating a perfectly leveled tiled floor include:

• Multiple numbers of Wedges – which are slid under the tile to lock the tiles in place and are taken out when mortar sets
• Clips – to hold the wedge
• A set of pliers- for tightening the clips

Another significant floor leveling tool is the floor spacer which allows you to have straight and even grout spacing on floor. Floor spacers are used for placing tiles and maintaining equal tile joint despite dimensional variations in tiles.

Floor spacers help in camouflage those variations and achieving better symmetrical finish as well as improved aesthetic appearance. The most significant advantage of use of floor spacers is the protection of integrity of the tile floors.

When you wish to renovate floors of your house, rely on expertise and customer caring approach of Acufloor.

Using best tile leveling system and by virtue of highly professionaltile work, Acufloor is the most referred company for all kinds of tile and floor leveling assignments.