How to make a wet screed with your own hands The floor covering will be beautiful and durable only when it is laid on a good base. The traditional way of setting up the base is pouring a "wet" cement-sand screed. Consider the technology of its creation. Any screed performs several functions. First of all, it provides strength (load-bearing capacity), flatness and smoothness of the subfloor. Besides …
With my own hands - read more ... The device of cement-sandy (wet) screed with their own handsGlass panel in the floor using decoupage technique Once we accidentally dropped a vase on the tiled floor, and several of the tiles were broken. It was not possible to buy the same. But a month ago I got carried away with the decorative technique of decoupage, starting, like many, with vases, plates, caskets. Now I decided to make a glass panel with my own hands instead of a gap in the floor. Because …
With my own hands - read more ... Decoupage of the floor - a panel with your own hands (photo)Cork floor (cork flooring) DIY laying If a cork floor is made from the same bark as wine floors does not mean that it is stained in the same way. Sophisticated processing steps make cork bark stronger than the most durable oak planks. Who is suitable for cork floors? Residents of high-rise buildings, new buildings. One day you will wake up to ...
With my own hands - read more ... Cork floor (photo): styling and pros and consHow to repair thresholds with your own hands One fine day, you suddenly notice that a crack has appeared under the front door of your house. The "culprit" of this disgrace is the worn out wooden door sill. Sad girl, as O. Bender used to say ... But do not despair - with a skillful approach, the elimination of the threshold repair will not take much time. The door sill provides protection against penetration ...
With my own hands - read more ... Do-it-yourself threshold - repair and replacement (photo)We make the floor with our own hands - so that the boards are enough! I usually lay the floor by placing logs and boards at a 45 degree angle to the walls (photo 1). When cutting the ends of the boards to the walls and when joining them, waste is formed on the logs. And if in the first case, cutting cannot be avoided, then the docking can be optimized. Let's say in the middle of a rectangular room we put ...
With my own hands - read more ... Do-it-yourself flooring - economical docking and back-to-back billing