Features, technology and  benefits 3D floors

 

Self-leveling 3D floors are a new technology for the manufacture of floor coverings. An incredibly huge selection of colors and materials for their creation suggests that this method of flooring is promising and in demand in recent times.

What are self-leveling 3D floors

Decorative  flooring is not just a picture, it is a large-scale art object that radically changes the idea of how flooring can look like. On the one hand, this is a surface, and on the other, a full-fledged image, with all the shades and textures. A strong and durable surface that a person walks on indoors can be beautiful, creative and unique.
The developers of 3D technology hardly imagined how diverse and interesting their ideas would be in the future. Today, polymer self-leveling floors are made in shopping centers, large halls, office premises, apartments, many people make self-leveling floors.  This is explained not only by the external beauty of such a floor, but also by its operational characteristics.

• Environmental friendliness.  In its structure, the decorative floor resembles a stone. Therefore, there are no pungent odors or fumes from the coating and cannot be.

• High levels of strength and longevity. With proper installation, the filler floor will retain its properties for a long time. The color, gloss and smooth surface will not fade with time and will not fade.

• Easy maintenance of flooded floors. The absence of cracks, pores and small gaps makes the coating absolutely immune to any dirt, dust, water, chemicals. Self-leveling 3D floor will withstand even prolonged exposure to abrasive particles and chlorine. Any cleaning (wet or dry) will not be difficult and will not take much time.

Where is the best place to make a self-leveling 3D floor

 

Self-leveling 3D floors appeared relatively recently - just a few years ago. The first places for their laying were new hotels, offices, shopping centers. And many are mistaken when they think that in an apartment decorative self-leveling floors can only be used in a bathroom or toilet.

In fact, the bulk 3D coating  is suitable for absolutely any room. Today, poured floors are installed not only in government agencies, hotels, banquet halls and cafes. These are ordinary small-sized apartments, and country houses, and even summer cottages. Due to their unique aesthetic and external visualizations, 3D polymer self-leveling floors solve many design problems of any room:

• In small apartments, properly selected shades and images visually increase the space.

• In large halls and foyers, they become part of the interior, its highlight. Imitation of wood, complex stone textures, the presence of various materials (coins, stones, moldings, sparkles, and others) make it possible to make a real work of art out of the floor.  decoration and design of any premises - from the toilet to the hotel lobby and the airport waiting room.

• In various styles, such as high-tech, classicism and even abstractionism, the self-leveling 3D floor allows the most irrepressible imagination of both the designer and the owner of the house to be realized. Oddly enough, it is with the help of 3D coating technology that many people give vent to their creative potential.

• The ability to use the floor as an advertisement, information stand, gallery has allowed many companies and firms to create a finished look of the room. After all, the logo on the floor will always attract attention. And if it also has the ability for 3D visualization, then this is no longer just a logo - this is the highest aerobatics of design ideas.

• Incredibly wide possibilities of flooded 3D floors allow you to use your own photos or ready-made photo wallpapers as an image. At home or in the office, such images often become the main link in the interior. It is no longer the floor that is matched to the color of the walls and furniture, the entire interior is matched to the floor.

Based on this, it is safe to say that this new 3d technology can be used in any room.

Features and structure of the self-leveling floor

 

Self-leveling floors 3D  are floor coverings that do not just have a color, but are themselves a pattern or image. Roughly speaking, this is an image under a transparent layer, which is also the floor. Most often, finished prints act as a visual picture. They are printed on a special photo printer according to the specified dimensions. Therefore, for any size of the room, you can choose your favorite pattern.

The composition of the 3D floor is as follows:

• Self-levelling screed

• Image (photo, independent drawing from paint or paper)

• Transparent two-component polymer (thickener and hardener)

• Protective varnish

 

Bulk decorative floor in the office

 

Also, the composition may include various decorative "little things" - coins, figurines, pieces of materials, and the like. All this will determine the future overall design of the floor and the room as a whole.

If we talk about the features of the self-leveling  floor, then they should include more pouring technology than the final result. requires patience. That is why the services of a master in laying a decorative floor are sometimes more expensive than the floor itself.

If we talk about the prices of materials for the installation of a 3D floor, then their price fluctuates depending on the complexity of the work. For a one-color self-leveling floor, along with the work of the master, the price tag starts at about $ 60 dollars per 1 m3 . For design (picture, photo wallpaper) the price starts from 140 dollars per 1 m3 . For the services of a professional artist who will manually paint the floor, you will have to agree in advance and pay by agreement. The price tag here can go off scale to infinity.

 

Do decorative 3D floors have disadvantages?

 

Many are sure that 3D floor coverings actually have a whole lot of flaws. Tales are passed from mouth to mouth that they are too unhealthy, fragile, easily soiled  and the like. In fact, all this is speculation and a weak attempt by some to justify why they have not yet made such a floor at home.

 

Polymer self-leveling floors 3d in the bathroom

Among the disadvantages of coverage can be identified the price. But compared to the service life, it is negligible, because such a floor will last more than 20 years.  It is best to purchase mixtures in specialized hardware stores.

Only there the buyer will be able to guarantee the quality of the polymer and its safety. But it is best to entrust the choice of coverage to professionals who will certainly be able to distinguish a fake from a real self-leveling polyurethane floor.

 

The design of self-leveling floors in the apartment

 

Perhaps the only drawback of the liquid floor is the complexity, almost impossibility of dismantling it.

The polymer (filled floor)   is so firmly glued and grows together with the base that it is then easier to put another coating right on top than to dismantle the old one.

And if you still need to remove the self-leveling floor with your own hands, then you will literally have to pull it out “with meat”, gouging out not only the coating, but also the base under it. .