dB floor

Preparation

Substrate preparation - depending on substrate:

• Improvement of defective substrates where applicable
• Removal of loose material and basic cleaning of the substrate
• Rough levelling and improvement of defective substrates where applicable

Clean substrate with a broom; all dust and debris should be vacuumed from the surface. Smaller holes and height differences can be smoothed with weberfloor base rapid 4360.

Surface slabs

Should a cement-based material be used, weberfloor 4945 glassfibre mesh must be laid out on the surface. When laying out the mesh, ensure that the edges overlap by 50mm. If a calcium sulphate screed is used, no reinforcement mesh is needed.

As a load and heat distribution layer, 3 different self-levelling screeds can be used within the dB-Floor Concept:

• weberfloor fibre 4310 (normal drying) or weberfloor fibre rapid 4320 (self-drying) fibre-reinforced, flexible cementitious screeds with a high polymer content. The minimum thickness is 25mm but it can be pumped up to 50mm. 
   
• weberfloor base rapid 4360 (self-drying) economical fibre-reinforced cementitious base screeds designed for floating floors up to 80mm thickness. The minimum thickness is 35mm offering a sufficient point load capacity and a good sound reduction at moderate costs. 

Please note: If the final floor covering is PVC or linoleum, a finishing layer of weberfloor smooth 4150 or weberfloor smooth rapid 4160 is required prior to application of the floor covering.

Further recommendations

The floor covering may be applied once the drying conditions are suitable. The indications referring to the readiness for covering apply to a dry substrate, a room air temperature of 20°C and a relative humidity of 50%. Air dehumidifiers, draughts and too high temperatures must be avoided.

Normal apartments can usually be done without any joints. In the case of unfavourable geometry (narrow long corridors or big areas where the uniform slab is "cut" by partitions), we recommend creating a "dummy joint" by cutting the slab approximately 5mm deep at such critical places. If the slab is to crack, it will crack in a controlled manner at these places but it will still be held together by the glassfibre mesh. If the floor covering requires a seamless and crack-free floor, these dummy joints can be injected as soon as the shrinkage stresses have ceased, i.e. when the screed material has dried out completely.

Dilatation joints in the building do not necessarily have to be adopted as this surface slab floats complete freely, independently of the building's dilatation joints. On the contrary, we can offer a seamless floating screed floors that also enable the tiling of large areas without joints and cracks.

Please note that small hair cracks may occur due to the building shape or the substrate. These are purely optical flaws and have no influence on the floor's adhesion or loading capacity.