Concrete floor without screed on the upper floor/attic, what to do?

  • Erstellt am 2022-02-21 23:31:04

christophen

2022-02-25 14:32:58
  • #1


The construction manager wrote to me that the top edge of the raw floor to the bottom edge of the door frame is about 11mm. So the doors and frames definitely have to be shortened, some neighbors who installed parquet had to do the same. Everything actually matches the original plan. We just didn’t know that we would have no screed on the upper floor/attic. And yes, it is also a developer townhouse (German townhouse to be exact).
 

christophen

2022-02-25 16:10:23
  • #2


Thank you for your contribution. Would you also not install the parquet as a floating floor? Because then there would be a foil/impact sound insulation underneath. Then the parquet should not be able to absorb the water.. or am I thinking completely wrong?
 

i_b_n_a_n

2022-02-25 17:56:59
  • #3
Did the site manager also mention in which parallel universe this is carried out according to the "generally accepted rules of engineering"?
 

11ant

2022-02-25 19:03:37
  • #4
This is actually said here almost daily in the morning, noon, and evening: that what is not included in the construction service description will also not be included in the house. And that there are professional construction service description readers whom a layperson should consult. To classify the raw concrete ceiling surface as a walkable floor is widespread in this range of house offers, so much so that one could almost speak of "recognized custom"... ... with such offers, one should consider that the large housing developers know their target group very well (not only the first-time buyers but also their successors!) and have thoroughly weighed the decision to consciously omit screed (and underfloor heating) in the upper floors. Perhaps they should take their customers more actively by the hand on this point and explain that their equipment standard is misinterpreted if taken as "upgrade it yourself." Retrofitting hand-stitched leather seats in a Dacia will not be appreciated upon resale. Many buyers will unfortunately have to learn to read "no screed" as a warning recommendation "no parquet, no giant tiles."
 

christophen

2022-02-25 19:19:12
  • #5


Somehow most posts here don't help us one bit further. There are thousands of people who have been living in such constructions with certain disadvantages for years; in some countries, it is even standard. I wanted to ask the question here to know how to make the best out of it. It should also be clear that nobody who buys a Dacia expects the basic structure of a Mercedes in the end. I understand that you explain everything to the best of your knowledge and conscience about how things should have been done in the past, but it is too late, and as said, most sentences here unfortunately do not help us further and we need recommendations for the future.

But thanks already for your explanations.
 

11ant

2022-02-25 19:30:51
  • #6
A forum is not a chief physician treatment in a private room: I and many other advisors never write the answers here only for the respective acute current questioner, but always also for the dozen silent readers who are basically "hanging on" the visible questioner (and to whom one can very well give a hint early enough). Why should it be "too late" here to settle for a floor covering appropriate for the house?
 

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