Self levelling over thin bitumen residue

[tomo13]

Hi. My floor at home is part screed and part marley tiles. I need to level the floor, so was thinking take the marleys up and cover the bitumen residue ( not even a mil thick) with Arditex NA. Then any more levelling that needs to be done, I can use my normal Ultra leveller on top. Is this the way people would go about it ? Or should I just do a slurry coat of SBR and leveller on the residue. Thanks for any replies. Steve.

 

[Mr Tiler]

just a heads up mate there may be asbestos present with the Marley tiles so wear a mask and be careful!

 

[CJ]

Slurry coat first definatly.....then ultra should be fine.

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

I recently slc over bitumen and its recommended to use flexible. I usex weber floor flex and primed the floor with 5 parts primer to 1 part water. Only thing the primer takes ages to dry.

 

[peteablard]

Arditex NA can go direct on the bitumen, no priming required

 

[area tiling]

Arditex NA straight onto the floor , but your coverage must be at least 3mm deep! Great product

 

[tomo13]

Struggling to find anyone near me that stocks the Arditex. thinking I'm going to go with a 50/50 Bal SBR and rapidest addy slurry, then ultra level It 2 latex leveller. Does this need to be a single cream sort of consistency or something a bit thicker ?

 

[White Room]

With Level it 2 you get a bottle of liquid to mix with the powder...

 

[Martyn Leeds]

I would imagine the bag will have the mixing requirements on it.

The one I use is 4.5 litres of water to mix the whole bag, and I keep an old juice bottle in my van to make sure I can measure it out, as SLC is the only thing I mix to the exact instructions

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Scrap the above, ha, it'll be the latex liquid

but there's a gem of a tip, an old coke bottle or something for counting out the water..


my taxi has just arrived...

 

[Stef]

I would imagine the bag will have the mixing requirements on it.

The one I use is 4.5 litres of water to mix the whole bag, and I keep an old juice bottle in my van to make sure I can measure it out, as SLC is the only thing I mix to the exact instructions

My wife went off her head when she went to get her mixing jug from the kitchen cupboard!!!
Erm, sorry but it's in my van don't think you will want it back.
Had to buy her a nice new one.

 

[tomo13]

sorry guys I meant the slurry not the SLC :smilewinkgrin: