Shower Floor Waterproof Membrane Lends To Better Design For Shower Room Flooring

If you go into an old bathroom with a shower floor, you will find that they always utilized small tiles to tile a shower floor. The reason for this was simple back then, only small tile made the grout appear often enough so that the shower floor was not terribly slippery, as having an extremely slippery shower floor is a recipe for disaster.

Interestingly enough today no one cares about putting in the smaller tiles because there are any number of shower floor waterproof membrane choices. Many hotels and high rise buildings have introduced their shower floor waterproof membrane via the use of ANSI-NSF, which uses the International standards utilized for commercial kitchens, such as cafeterias, delis, and restaurants, etc. The more often we all give each other a hand for things like these the easier it will be in finding them for our respective businesses.

The point is of course that any shower should be completely waterproof. Moisture has to have no chance to get into whatever decorative covering is put into a shower, such as the grout and tile that we often see. Thus a shower floor waterproof membrane must not ever let a shower leak, it must dry out extraordinarily swiftly after use. Of course it must dry so that neither mold nor mildew has a chance to attach itself.

Now Silikal has their own shower floor waterproof membrane. It is in actuality a combination vapor moisture sealer as well as being concrete waterproofing. It is, of course, applied directly to the concrete as all of their products. The Silikal concrete vapor moisture sealer will essentially provide your floors with their waterproof membranes. These membranes are what allow for simple control as well as the elimination of any moisture problems.

A concrete floor that does not receive this Silikal membrane typically has water vapor migrating and permeating the concrete floor. What happens next is that everyone receives a cold and clammy thoroughly damp feeling, which will unfortunately never leave. Getting rid of it ordinarily means very substantial high costs so that the entire floor has to be prematurely repaired, or worse yet, totally replaced. This of course means a business has to suffer through unnecessary downtime. It must be fixed, for once water vapor moves through your concrete floor, it will produce efflorescence on the concrete surface, damage your aggregates, as well as discolor the concrete with acid stains.