Simple and Quick Hacks For Water Proofing Your Toilet Floor

Waterproofing is one of the most important steps you need to take when you move into a new home or renovating an old one. As the term suggests, this basically means that you prevent water from seeping into other structures of your home. It helps protect your home.

Of all the rooms in your house, you will need the bathroom to be the most waterproof. Waterproofing is one of the first steps to take place when a bathroom is being built. It involves installing a waterproof barrier around the walls and floor in your bathroom to protect the structure of the house from the moisture. Waterproofing is very black and white; your bathroom is either waterproof, or not waterproof.

While it is recommended that you consult a professional when it comes to doing a waterproof toilet floor, there are some simple hacks you can do yourself. Waterproofing does take some time and is more than just a quick-fix DIY. It is best to do waterproofing while renovating an area so as not to disrupt the regular activities in your home or building. Construction website TheConstructor.Org provides this guide for successful waterproofing on your toilet floor.

Cement based waterproofing for floor slabs in toilet is provided to stop ingress of flushing water / floor wash. Following are the steps of waterproofing of floor slabs:

1. Clean the surface of the slab by removing all loose materials, dust, etc. and wash with clean water.

2. Provide and lay a screed of C.M. (1:3) over the clean and damp surface including waterproofing agent mixed with C.M. Total average thickness shall be 20 mm. Lay an average thickness of 115 mm consisting of brick bat layer laid in random pattern to avoid continuity of joints and 10 mm thick., bedding, 10 mm thick, jointing with water proof cement mortar of (1:3). This layer shall be laid to appropriate slopes towards floor drain. This layer shall be cured for minimum 3 days before taking up the next layer. The surface which is not taken up for next layer shall be continued to be cured for minimum 10 days.

3. Final Layer Provide and lay minimum 40 mm thick IPS layer in cement concrete (1:2:4) with maximum size of aggregate 3 mm to 6 mm, simultaneously with polishing trowel, using C.M. (1:2) above which floor tiles shall be laid.

4. Curing – This layer shall be cured for 21 days by flooding the water to 25 mm depth in panel of 1M x 1M formed by weak cement mortar bonding.