Self Leveling Compound

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Hi guys, I'm in the process of a living room over haul, I have removed the fireplace and hearth. The floor is laminate over vinyl tiles and I intend to fit a new laminate floor. Over the vinyl. Where the hearth was is rough and low so I was going to use self leveling compound to smooth it up with the surrounding floor.

I looked in ' b&q!' And they sell a unibond slc, I read the instructions and it said about PVA before applying it so wasn't sure about that!

Assuming SBR would be better? Any gd brands of SLC to look for?

Clean n dry floor
Sbr
Apply self level

Is this correct?

Thanks in advance

 

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Can you find a better local supplier. The unibond stuff is rubbish. ( no latex)
Search for a local supplier of Tilemaster, Webber or mappai

 

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Go to a good tile shop and get a good branded slc. Prime floor with acrylic primer or sbr, once dry. Level it. If your leveling over the old vinyl tiles I would make a slurry coat and put that on first and leave to dry.

 

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I will try the local tile shop, was just wondering more about the priming. Pva always flags up as a no no/ bad advice with me.

I'm self leveling over screed, the vinyl tiles were fitted around the old hearth.

I'll try and upload a pic

 

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Ok so did this today hopefully correctly!

Primed the floor with acrylic primer I had from last year. Hoping it was ok as it smelt the same as when I got it.

Prob being a bit reckless as it's not being tiled so if worst happened I can lift the laminate. How do you know if the primer is ok? There's no use by etc on the bottle .

I got self levelling compound from my local tile shop arc high build and used it. Here's the results, hoping it dries ok!
The floor I think was sloping up slightly towards the heart so I have the edges of

original floor coming through at each side but hoping the underlay plus the few mm height of the surrounding vinyl will make it ok!!

 

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Oops dunno what I did with the pics! Sorry guys

 

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They are there....

 

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You need more guardsmen............

 

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Forgot to update this! SLC worked a treat and I'm very happy with the finished result