How To Cut Out A Concretet Floor In A Bathroom

Learn how to cut into a basement floor the foundation of the house in order to do some plumbing for a bathtub.

How to cut out a concretet floor in a bathroom.

Brush on a concrete bonding liquid photo by kenneth chen. Press it down so it fills all the small holes in the concrete. A circular saw with a masonry blade can also be used to either score or completely cut through the block. In this video learn how to tile over a concrete bathroom floor.

Keep adding mortar until it makes a small rounded mound on over the concrete surface. Use a trowel or your hands and fill the space with mortar. The concrete was poured over the toilet collar flange and will be cut out later. This is noisy and can be time consuming depending on the amount of steel reinforcement in.

Score the length of the cut three or four times with the chisel. Use a hammer and a cold chisel to level the bottom of the hole and undercut its sides slightly so the patch can t pop loose. Mix the concrete with water and scoop some into the hole. Set the diamond blade on the concrete wet saw to a depth of 4 1 2 inches and cut along both chalk lines.

Is the floor in your new home made of ugly cold concrete. Pour the fresh concrete over the floor then go over it with a 1 4 gauge rake to bring it level image 2. If your cut doesn t need to be exact use a cold chisel and hand sledge to cut the concrete. The first option is to cut the concrete with a handheld concrete saw.

If this is the case and you would like to get rid of it check out this tutorial. Concrete saws come in different sizes. There are three main ways to remove the concrete slab to install plumbing. In this video you ll see the cutting using.

Photo by kenneth chen. Learn how to cut into a basement floor the foundation of the house in order to do some plumbing for a bathtub. Be sure to press the mortar against the edges of the damaged area as well. The most common sizes of handheld concrete saws are 12 14 inch 16 inches.