Often a person is ready to waterproof the bathroom floor on his own, because… The area is small. The main thing is that it is reliable, convenient, and environmentally friendly. Single-component liquid rubber and primers meet these criteria. They are applied with a brush or roller. No special skills are required.
For automated waterproofing the bathroom floor, special equipment, and another material are required – two-component liquid rubber. As a rule, it is used in laundries, washrooms, and showers, i.e. where the floor area is larger than in conventional bathrooms.
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Manual waterproofing of bathroom floors
First, you need to prepare the base (concrete floor slab). If necessary, install a screed and level the surface. It should be taken into account that the floor in the bathroom must be lower than the floor level of the rooms adjacent to the bathroom (or the bathroom and the adjacent room must be separated by a threshold).
Clean then the surface and make it dust-free. After which it is necessary to carry out priming with PazPrimer or Technoprok.
An hour after priming, you can begin applying liquid rubber. It should be remembered that the material is applied not only to the floor, but it is imperative to extend onto the vertical wall, approximately 150…200mm. The consumption of any brand of liquid rubber for coating waterproofing a bathroom floor should be at least 3 kg per m2.
After the coating has completely dried, install a thin screed. However, if the floor was initially flat and the surface is small (bathrooms are rarely large), then it is possible without a screed, i.e. The tiles are laid immediately on top of the waterproofing using tile adhesive. To better see what it looks like, click on the photo, it is clickable.
Bathrooms and showers often require caulking and painting.
- Technoprok polyurethane sealant is indispensable if reliable sealing of cracks, joints, grooves, and junctions is required.
- Acrylate (rubber) paint Technoprok is indispensable if a vapor-permeable waterproofing coating is required for the walls and ceiling in the bathroom.
Machine waterproofing device in the bathroom
As for the use of “classic” [two-component] liquid rubbers for waterproofing floors, this method makes sense if the room is large or there are many rooms in a new building.
Therefore, it is rare to see the automated application of two-component liquid rubber when waterproofing bathrooms or toilets. This is new construction when waterproofing is required at the stage of starting and finishing work.
The next photo shows just such waterproofing of a bathroom floor. Liquid rubber Rapidflex is spray. Work completion time 1 min. 20 sec. Area – 3m2. For comparison, if you use the manual version with Elastomix or Elastopaz mastic, then even an experienced master will do this work in at least an hour.
Here, the automated application was used because the floor was waterproof throughout the entire apartment. If it was necessary to waterproof the floor only in the bathroom, then we would use Elastomix or Elastopaz mastic with preliminary priming with PazPrimer or Technoprok primer.
