What made your day a good one

10 tons of leveling compound!!!, who concreted your floor?, the three blind mice?!!

Sorry, I was incorrect. It was 9973 kg. Better?

No, seriously, I don't know much about this, but the amount used depends on the size of the house and the extent of slant, I'd imagine? In order to level or screed a floor you would either have to raise the lower parts or in some way trim the higher, no? In my case we went with the former. And that resulted indeed in 9973 kg of the 780 compound here http://cbsi.net/wp-content/uploads/Combimix_catalog.pdf

How would you have done it?

Btw, @Bechet told me it is called pouring floor rather than levelling compound.
 
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there shouldn't be any slant, regardless of house size, the oversite (what will be the floor area of the building) should have been leveled when the foundations were dug, then the sub floor would be mass filled and poured to within whatever specifications dictate to allow for insulation and screed.leveling compound is for fine tuning the levels if the screed is slightly out or the surface is damaged in some way.
 
there shouldn't be any slant, regardless of house size, the oversite (what will be the floor area of the building) should have been leveled when the foundations were dug, then the sub floor would be mass filled and poured to within whatever specifications dictate to allow for insulation and screed.leveling compound is for fine tuning the levels if the screed is slightly out or the surface is damaged in some way.

Obviously, yes. But the foundations were dug when the house was built, early eighties, so we were hard pressed to do anything about that. They might have cut a few corners when building the damn thing. Several high and low spots both in ground floor's wood subfloor and basement's concrete subfloor. Maybe it's not called levelling compound, what was used, though. See the link. The planned gluing of the tongue and groove oak floor also called for at least a 2.5 cm layer of the mass underneath. It also allowed for laying down cables for underfloor heating in almost the entire basement. All was done by skilled, competent people.

Things are done differently in different countries, I guess. Anyway, now it's level and ready for the oak floor and that was what made my day a good one.

(Apologies if terms of the trade are off; I am neither a native English speaker nor have any competence in this area whatsoever.)
 
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