Level Basement Floor
3 8 cm thick in one pour and seeks its own level in minutes.
Level basement floor. Rent a concrete grinder from your local home improvement center. Clear the basement completely removing everything such as furnishings or stored items from the floor s surface. Remove any baseboards as well because the height of the floor will raise after you level it.
This tape is helpful both at leveling the compound in the next step and at strengthening the new surface of the floor. For this project we used 27 bags of self leveling cement to cover 430sqft 40m2. If the uneven floor is due to floor joists that have warped or twisted over time or were incorrectly installed the only way to level the floor is to remove the subflooring and shim the joists.
Compound can correct sags and dips as deep as 1 1 2 inches. Put on safety. Remove all of the furniture appliances and baseboards from the room.
Slip shims under the low end of the 2x4 rail until it s perfectly level then use a scribing tool to transfer the. Clear off your basement floor. Match the scribe bottom to the surface of the floor.
Use expansion tape to lay a perimeter around the basement floor. To resurface an uneven concrete slab begin by laying a long straight 2x4 wooden rail across the concrete slab floor. Leveling with a concrete grinder 1.
In this video we show how to level the floor with the self leveling cement. If you have access to the basement or crawlspace it is possible to jack up saggy joists until they are level and then sister them so that they remain straight after the jacks are removed. Take everything out of the room so that the floor is completely clear.