Floors in houses and condos

This page gathers floor screeds from several home jobs photographed between 2018 and 2023. Each one is a dry pack bed laid flat for the finish floor that went on top: tile, stone or wood, laid by the next trade.

In 2023, a panelled living room with a fireplace and chandeliers got a large, smooth screed across the whole floor, with two workers kneeling at the far side. In 2022 a corner condo room with floor-to-ceiling windows above the lake got a finished floor bed, a basement room was screeded by two workers with straightedges, and a fresh bed was laid around the opening of a curved staircase, where the edge has to follow the curve.

In an old block-walled basement in 2023, the bed was spread around the plumbing rough-ins already in the slab. The oldest photo, from 2018, is a two-car garage with a fresh, even floor bed and the edge being floated. Rooms like these are why a mortar bed is chosen: it fits whatever shape the room is.

The service: Dry pack floor levelling