Pouring Concrete Floor Over Basement. Pour new concrete surface over 100 year old basement concrete floor. The best proportions when pouring a basement floor are 6 gallons of water for every 1 cubic foot of cement. The second floor and bearing walls are of wood c o n s t ru c t i o n.
It will keep pests and insects away from the dirt. Because you're pouring the floor in sections, you need to build wooden forms for the sections as you pour them. Kootk (structural) 27 feb 17 16:47.
Gallery of Pouring Concrete Floor Over Basement
You can use either one or two layers of plywood or osb, and the subflooring can either be fastened to the concrete with long tapcon screws or it can simply float above the foam. You will be pouring a little over existing floor but not much and feather flat. Kootk (structural) 27 feb 17 16:47. Besides supply and waste lines, pex tubing was added to the slab for hydronic heat.
