How to hold a floor insulation on the balcony
Quality design lodge is unthinkable without a thermal insulation works. And you need to lay a layer of insulation on all the rough surface, if the owner wants to provide the optimal conditions. Needs insulation and floor. How to spend it?
1. Preparation of a draft surface
To guard against certain serious leakage of heat, must first remove the old flooring and check the condition of rough surface. Perhaps, it contains cracks. Then the cracks need to cover the concrete solution. Upon detection of large gaps use small sections of extruded polystyrene or izolona.
2. Laying the foundation for insulation and finishing
Of course, sometimes a thermal insulation material is laid directly on the work surface without performing preparatory activities. But it is much better if the owner of the first tuck of timber logs with thickness up to 10 cm. They can be placed every 50 cm, if the area is small loge.
3. Laying a heat-insulating material
There is a large variety of insulating materials. The owner must keep in mind that loggia - part of the apartment, which is characterized not the most favorable operating conditions. It is better to use an insulator, which is not afraid of high humidity and temperature changes.
For example, different qualities have ordinary concrete block. It needs to go to sleep so that it fills all space, present between joists. It is necessary to ensure that expanded clay does not rise above the plane of the logs. Otherwise it will hurt decorating.
4. Laying of the dry floor screed
To form a beautiful and reliable floor on the balcony, over the insulating layer is necessary to lay screed. It can perform using OSB or MDF boards. They are placed on joists and secured by ordinary screws. It is also possible to use a sheet of glass, which is characterized by a high insulation quality.
5. Finishing floors in the loggia
On such a basis is laid different floor coverings. Suit and ordinary linoleum. Where you can lay laminate flooring, cork tile adhesive vinyl tiles and so on. The main thing is that the material also has good insulating performance.
Perhaps all of these activities seem most owners quite complex. But, if the deal with them, you can get a floor with excellent insulating properties.