How To Make An Existing Basement Floor Thicker

Installing a tile floor in all or part of your basement lets you have some fun with design while still quickly covering up existing concrete floors.

How to make an existing basement floor thicker.

Rake the dirt floor removing any rocks that are larger than a golf ball. Measure the width of the basement and then the length. Right before you get to work mixing and pouring new concrete spray the old surface with a hose. One thing i learned.

Keep spraying it until the moisture runs off the sides instead of being absorbed. To rehash i simply need to pour a 2 concrete riser on top of an existing concrete basement floor. Over time concrete floors can settle unevenly or become uneven due to cracking and moisture. I thought this would be a fairly trivial task but googling for answers only yields people wanting to skim an entire new layer of concrete over a pre existing slab.

Neglecting to prepare the old surface will prevent the new concrete from adhering correctly resulting in a weak bond between the two layers. Diy concrete floor things to know. But consider a home where the basement is 30 feet long by 20 feet wide and could offer an additional 600 square feet in finished living space but the ceiling height is only 5 8. Whether you want to refinish an uneven basement floor or replace or add new flooring on top of an existing concrete floor somewhere in your home you most likely will need to level the concrete floor.

Saturate the existing surface with water. Ultimately i built up 6 thin layers and then topped it with a thicker layer. Tile is available in many different sizes and styles and the price range is equally broad. You can level an existing concrete floor with a leveling layer of new concrete but you must prepare the old concrete floor first.

Get the old concrete slab completely wet making sure any cleaning chemicals you used get rinsed off in the process. You can still see the seams of the subfloor notice the vertical line on the right hand side of the photo above. With an unfinished basement that has good ceiling height there often isn t much more to do other than insulate drywall and throw down some flooring.