Self-leveling floors. Advantages and disadvantages.

Popularity liquid 3D floors with each year is gaining more and more speed, but before covering your floor with this coating, it is necessary to know all its pros and cons.

Pros:

We begin of course with the positives. By themselves, self-leveling floors look elegant in any room, regardless of its footage, especially if the color goes well with the furniture and walls. An example of such a design combination pictured below.

Another positive aspect of such floors is resistance and durability. Manufacturers give them an average 10-year warranty, and it is said that they are not so easy to spoil. Also worth noting is that the moisture and physical impact it is also not strashny- within reason of course.

Poured floors are absolutely perfectly adhere to any surface. For example, if you have a flat floor is covered with parquet or laminate, they do not have to shoot. Filling coating can be applied on almost anything and the result will be positive.

Poured floors are very easy to install, they just need to apply uniformly throughout the area of ​​the premises and wait for the complete drying. Accordingly, joints and seams on the floor will be completely absent, which is an advantage in aesthetic appearance.

Filling coating completely fireproof, even if you accidentally drop it burning paper or candle. Appearance of this, too, will not be affected.

The materials of which made self-leveling floors completely environmentally friendly and does not emit into the premises any toxic substances. This means that they are completely safe for your health, even if you have allergies.

Minuses:

Despite the growing popularity, the range of self-leveling floor is very poor, but I think that in the near future the demand for them will increase significantly and therefore species is much greater.

If the self-leveling floors are constantly interacting with sunlight, then over the years, they tend to gradually turn yellow. Of course it would be more discreet shade of yellow, but still it is a bit spoil their appearance.

Before buying the filler coating, it is necessary to measure the humidity in the apartment. Each apartment is different due to certain factors, so make sure you measure it and then gain coverage with identical markings on the packaging.

In general, self-leveling flooring excellent universal coverage, but of course very expensive.