The floor on the balcony do it yourself

When the need arises to repair the floor on the balcony, it is important to know that there are quite a few ways to do this work.

One of the easiest is to call a call to the house of masters, who in the shortest (or not) terms will carry out the necessary repairs. However, this would entail additional costs comparable to the price of the material that is required for this. Therefore, if you want to save money and practice your skills, you can make a floor on the balcony with your own hands. This process is relatively simple from a technological point of view and requires only minimal skills in handling the tool and the tools themselves. About what options for performing the task exist, and will be discussed further.

Task description and action plan

First of all, it is necessary to assess the scale of the current situation, and already on the basis of these considerations, choose a strategy and tactics for further actions. In other words, if the floor on the balcony collapsed completely, then the actions will be alone, and if there is a face-lift, then others. In any case, you need to be prepared for the fact that you have to work carefully and slowly.

In addition, you need to prepare a set of tools that will be required in any case - it is a hammer, a screwdriver, a measuring tape, a building level, and others, depending on the type of work.

In order to make a decision on how to make a balcony floor, it is very useful to familiarize yourself with the options for solving this problem.

Cement strainer

One of the most simple and at the same time effective options for manufacturing the floor on the balcony is the implementation of cement screed. Works can be divided into several stages:

• First you need to completely free the room and dismantle the old coating, if it takes place. Most often, if we are talking about such work, you will have to deal with the same cement screed, but made a few decades ago. Armed with a perforator, you need to maximize the base, freeing it from the upper layer of the screed.
• Then beacons are installed on the base. As these, segments of metal rails of the required length are quite suitable. First you need to determine the height of the future floor, make a markup and prepare a certain amount of sand-cement mixture, which must be spread out along the surface of the balcony with knolls. The bottom line is that these mounds will serve as the basis for the lighthouses, set on existing marks at the desired height.
• After installing the beacons, the space between them is filled with mortar (cement and sand are mixed in a ratio of 1/3 and diluted with water to the consistency of sour cream) and the mixture is leveled using the rule.
• When the mixture grabs and acquires sufficient strength to walk on it, the lighthouses are removed, and the place where they were located is filled with a solution and leveled.

The result is an even and solid base under any coating, and you can leave it in the form in which it is.

Bulk floor

If the floor needs to be made also beautiful, then the self-leveling floor technology will come to the rescue. Bulk floor easy to use and has good performance. The mixture is diluted with water, stirred and poured onto the base. Uniform distribution of the mixture is carried out using a special needle roller.

Wooden floor

Another solution to this problem is a wooden floor. Its installation is also quite simple.

1. First, the base is leveled. It is not necessary to achieve perfect equality, but it’s worth getting closer to.
2. Then the boards (not less than 5 cm thick) are sawed to the required length and laid on the base, leveled by level and attracted by anchors.
3. Plywood sheets are laid over the boards and fastened to the boards with self-tapping screws.
4. It is important to note that materials from wood must be treated with special antiseptic compounds in order to avoid mold.

In conclusion, you can add that to put the floor on the balcony with due diligence and desire under the force of almost everyone. The room is rarely large areas, and therefore the work can be perceived as a workout and skill skills.

It is worth reading:

• how to choose electric underfloor heating under the laminate;
• how to fill the floor with your own hands;
• how to paint a wooden floor on the balcony;
• how to level a concrete floor under a laminate.

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