Basements, Attics and Crawl Spaces - unlevel concrete basement
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Lady G
10-09-09, 12:52 PM
What is the best way to level a small room (bathroom) in the basement; concrete floor?
chandler
10-09-09, 01:57 PM
How bad is it out of level? Say the room is 6' wide, how much drop do you have over that 6' span?
Lady G
10-10-09, 08:55 AM
the room is 5'4" wide and 4'3" long. a 1/2 shim balances my table that is in the bathroom. really not familiar with the terminology; "drop" is maybe 1/4 - 1/2 inch. thanks
chandler
10-10-09, 09:09 AM
Just so we will know your table doesn't have a short leg, let's put a level on the floor. If you have a 4' level, place it down and bring it to level, measuring the gap at the low end in both directions. Is the room finished with base molding?
Lady G
10-10-09, 08:31 PM
3/4"; to level. just finished framing-no molding, anymore.
Mr. Fix It
10-12-09, 01:34 PM
Usually when basements are poured, they are built to house the plumbing and electrical and heating systems and are not meant to be a living space.
Usually somewhere in the floor you will find a drain and the cement is sloped to divert the water to the drain.
When people gets the idea that they are going to convert this area to a living space, they have to take into account that it was never built or designed to be used for this purpose and have to make accommodations.
If you had the headroom the best thing to do would have been to build the bathroom on top of a box and use the box to run the plumbing and stuff underneath it and use the floor of the box to be the floor for the bathroom.
You can remove the slope by parging the floor with some type of cement and trying to make it level with a product such as Level X 52.
But because you waited until after you finished your bathroom to decide to level the floor, I don't know what it is going to do to your commode?
You should have leveled it first and then studded the walls.
Usually somewhere in the floor you will find a drain and the cement is sloped to divert the water to the drain.
When people gets the idea that they are going to convert this area to a living space, they have to take into account that it was never built or designed to be used for this purpose and have to make accommodations.
If you had the headroom the best thing to do would have been to build the bathroom on top of a box and use the box to run the plumbing and stuff underneath it and use the floor of the box to be the floor for the bathroom.
You can remove the slope by parging the floor with some type of cement and trying to make it level with a product such as Level X 52.
But because you waited until after you finished your bathroom to decide to level the floor, I don't know what it is going to do to your commode?
You should have leveled it first and then studded the walls.
Lady G
10-15-09, 07:20 AM
The basement was a partially "finished" room. The toilet and sink were already in. I simply re-framed it to make it alil bigger. Thanks
Lady G
10-16-09, 10:46 AM
It was suggested to have the concrete floor "dug up" and re-lay the concrete. I would not be the one doing that, but am wondering if there was a "shortcut"; like some type of material on the market that once poured onto the floor would allow to be spread evenly, thus evening out the floor. :o
chandler
10-16-09, 03:06 PM
IF the toilet and all the other facilities were to be removed, and IF you had a magic compound that would self level, would that compound cause problems with the toilet flange? Because you can purchase self leveling compound and correct this without a drastic measure of digging up the floor, PROVIDED it won't interfere with the existing plumbing.
Let us know.
Let us know.
Lady G
10-17-09, 10:23 AM
One of my co-workers has brought over their cement mixer, hammer drill and (12) 80 lb bags of cement. BEFORE they begins, any suggestions? Toilet and sink will be replaced. The entire basement has been and is being renovated; new heating sys., rewired-recessed lights... I was looking to see if there was "magic" something somewhere to level a concrete floor.
Thx
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