Crumbly Floor Screed

When we started to pull up the mdf we noticed some kind of underlay screed that had been painted green but with a red core.

Crumbly floor screed.

A rotary hammer drill would be overkill if the screed is crumbly a lump hammer and a cold chisel sound like they would easily do the job. Instead of looking smooth shiney it was rough powery however much they trowelled it. The screed is incredibly crumbly and looks like. After a 10 days it is also cracking by the doorway.

I am reasonably handy but never done any tiling before. So i thought it would go off. Therefore a suitable type of cement shall be selected and sand needs to be free of deleterious materials. We are currently renovating our kitchen in a 1930s flat.

Hi i laid a new concrete floor and laid the screed on thursday i went back today and found the screed to be like crumble towards the end we laid last. Hi i have hired a tradesmen to screed a floor. The tradesmen completed the work but the surface is left crumbly and edges corners came lose and have now separated from the rest of the floor. User 25416 4189 posts.

Mix ratio of sand and cement screed for floor varies based on the intended use of the screed. Some would advise that your floor situation would be ok under laminate flooring my advise would be to remove all the tiles back to bare concrete latex screed in english the floor and have peace of mind on completion that a its not crumbling as you walk on the laminate and b the floor is solid and level to except the laminate. Laundry has a waste in the centre of the floor. My problem is now 4 weeks on the floor is very dry crumbely.

It was drying for a week and there was no traffic on this floor. As i have removed the floor tiles in the laundry the screed below has come up in places and is pretty crumbly in others so i have removed the lot and am just back to the bare slab. In 11 patches the hoover has sucked out over 2inches of the crumbely screed. The screeders 20 yrs experience worked really hard but said it was the worst screed they had ever seen.

Floor screed is composed of cementitious materials and sand blended based on a suitable mix design and applied to provide a leveled surface for the floor finish which is introduced to the surface of the floor screed. There is an aluminium angle in the doorway and a metal. It was delivered quite dry and by the time we had finished seemed even worse but it trowelled up o k. So floor screed is.

And the entire floor is just as weak and crumbly as that point if not more some parts i can literally break away with my fingers.