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Mastic Asphalt Flooring

Mastic asphalt is used for flooring when either a screed has broken down or woodstrip/parquet flooring has failed due to damp. It can be laid onto quarry tiles or stone flags to give a damp proof, dust free, level floor, ready to accept new coverings within hours of laying. It can also be used to floor wet areas, showers/toilets etc.

We provide a flooring service where we will remove defective woodblocks/woodstrip etc. and lay asphalt flooring back to original thickness of removed blocks/strip.

We can gun up granwood tiles/quarry tiles/ceramics including any defective bedding screed, remove all waste and lay asphalt flooring back to original level. This is a service mainly carried out in schools etc, and we have laid many thousands of square meters.

Flooring is usually laid in 1 coat, if the floor is thicker, it is filled in with asphalt before laying isolating membrane and laying finished floor.
Granwood tile and bedding screed broken out
Granwood tile and bedding screed broken out
Floor ready to receive new asphalt

Floor ready to receive new asphalt,

Note new asphalt floor in background.
Any defective screed found must be removed back to a solid base
Note how this screed just crumbles
Area where defective screed was removed has been filled in with asphalt
Note finished floor in background
Finished floor is laid 16-20mm thick on a fibreglass tissue isolating membrane
Wood block parquet flooring was removed to reveal lightweight magnacite/ash screed which had failed. This was broken out down to structural slab. This meant, as the following pictures show, the asphalt was laid between 70 and 100mm thick.This had to be achieved by laying the asphalt in layers until a final finished floor could be laid at 20mm thick on a fibreglass tissue isolating membrane.
The area between the arrows shows the thickness of screed removed.
This shows the asphalt has to be 90mm to end up back at original finished floor level (flush with top of remaining wood block).