01/10/201226/04/2023 by Joris

SMET LiteFlo® features in Northern Builder

SMET LiteFlo® Lightweight Floor Screed features in Northern Builder Vol 23 No 4 2012 with comprehensive article considering the benefits of SMET LiteFlo® Lightweight Flowing Floor Screed over traditional sand & cement and regular CA-based flowing screeds. The edition also features an inside cover advertisement displaying the SMET Lightweight Screed in its full colour spread.

SMET Techincal support | SMET LiteFlo® Lightweight Flowing Screed

Laitance free SMET LiteFlo® Lightweight Flowing Floor Screed

pumpable SMET LiteFlo® Lightweight Flowing Floor Screed

To Lightly Flo’!

“The construction industry is often thought of as slow to respond to changes, however, the development of self levelling floor screed quickly gained acceptance for its speed of laying, drying, ease of labour and, that holy grail of building – a level surface.

Concrete floors are heavy and the self levelling screeds currently available often require a correspondingly robust structure to support them. The development of innovative LiteFlo®, a lightweight alpha hemihydrate calcium sulphate floor screed from SMET changes that. Developed in Germany’s most advanced laboratories and made from specially selected aggregates which make it 30% lighter than conventional flowing screeds and 70% lighter than traditional sand and cement or concrete. Unlike traditional screeds, Liteflo is pump applied and is therefore ideal for timber frame builds, suspended timber floors, balconies, tower blocks, renovation projects and for over acoustic or thermal insulation.

What makes LiteFlo® screed so special is its chemical composition. LiteFlo® is made out of Alpha Hemihydrate and this provides unique benefits over less advanced compounds. When LiteFlo® is mixed on-site to create a self levelling, pumpable screed, it takes up water much more readily than a conventional screed, muxing smoothly and almost completely crystallises – up to 95% in 24 hours. LiteFlo® is installed in the UK and Ireland (and Europe wide) by SMET Supported Partners, with an approximate cost of £30/€38 sqm and an average house takes just half a day to complete. LiteFlo® is produced to EN 13813 and installed in strict accordance with BS 8204-7.

SMET recognises that, as a supplier of superior quality products and services, the company must ensure its operations are carried out to the highest of standards. In order to achieve this, we operate a BSI registered ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System, BSI registered ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System, and a BSI registered ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System. Joris Smet, Company Director, said, “The operation of our quality management system illustrates our commitment to providing excellence in all our services, systems and products. Our aim is to achieve total client satisfaction for every aspect of our work.”

You can contact SMET Building Products Ltd at

93A Belfast Road
Newry
Co Down
Northern Ireland
BT34 1QH

T: +44 (0) 28 3026 6833
F: +44 (0) 28 3026 7619

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LITEFLO LIGHTWEIGHT FLOWING SCREED – TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

LiteFlo lightweight flowing calcium sulphate screed is supplied to site in pre-mixed bags or site silos.

LiteFlo is designed for application at thicknesses of between 20 and 90 mm. LiteFlo® complies with EN 13813: 2002. and is CE marked.

LiteFlo® is suitable for floors in homes, offices, public buildings, and places exposed to similar loads. LiteFlo® may be applied as a levelling screed directly onto a load-bearing floor, unbonded on a separating barrier (polythene), as a floating floor and is particularly suited in conjunction with underfloor heating or cavity floors.

LiteFlo® should be covered with a floor finish such as tiles, linoleum, parquet, cork or carpet. If a cement-based adhesive or smoothing compound is required the surface of the screed must first be sealed, using an appropriate acrylic primer/sealer.