The floor is possibly the most critical and criticised element of a building. It has to receive and withstand traffic, wear, load, abrasion and attack from physical and chemical stresses. It is also close to hand - or foot - and so is easy to look at and inspect.
Whilst a well designed floor screed will meet the demands imposed on it for years without trouble, breakdown or failure, a floor which is inadequately designed or badly installed will give problems, and not just problems associated with the floor itself, but also the activities performed on it.
Hence a question and answer session is often the starting point when a client asks Ronacrete to recommend one of its flooring systems. We will go through traffic type, whether it is internal or external, will be wet or dry, will it be exposed to chemicals, and if so for how long and their concentration and housekeeping, what speed of strength development and drying is needed, what are the traffic volumes, is slip resistance required, and importantly, how must it look. Is it a decorative floor, or purely functional. And is it a levelling screed, i.e. one that will be covered by carpet or another covering, or the wearing screed that will be exposed to the traffic?
Practicality of laying the screed also plays a major part in the decision process; whether to use a site batched screed, a prebagged material, or a free flowing/pumped screed. All of these materials are in the Ronacrete floor screed portfolio.
Depending on the required attributes a recommendation will be based on one of the Ronacrete screed systems which include those based on cement, polymer modified cements, epoxy, polyurethane, polyester.
In the Commercial and Industrial Flooring section we offer our floor coating systems, decorative, chemical and slip resistant floors, which can be placed on top of Ronacrete’s screed systems.
As well as products and systems for new floor screeds we offer a full range of floor repair mortars for convenient and fast floor maintenance and repair.