The substrate is necessary to cover it for its durability and preserve an attractive appearance. It is needed for laying a laminate. For example, so that the laminate does not deform over time, it must be laid on a clean and even surface, which can serve – concrete screed. And to create sound insulation and to keep the floor to maintain heat, a special substrate is used.
If you still want to make your life more comfortable, take care of warm floors and electric shifts /, because this is one of the economical and safe ways to warm the apartment and make your life comfortable.
Poloethylene, cork or composite material can serve as a position. About everyone in more detail ..
Foam polyethylene
The advantages include: cheapness, does not rot and are not subjected to fungus, mold. Rodents will not spoil such a floor, which means that the substrate can be safely used in the country or rural house.
The disadvantages are: over the years, the form is lost and the laminate can sink; For warm floors, this material is not suitable; not suitable for rooms with high temperature.
Cork.
Stores are offered with leaf or roll.
The advantages include: perfectly holds heat; excellent isolation; On the inside of the laminate, condensate will never appear; low price.
The disadvantages include only that cork material is not suitable for every floor design.
Composite material.
It is necessary to buy such material based on a specific purpose. For example, ventilation or moisture insulation, sound insulation or warm floor. The specialist will already pick up himself, listening to the customer’s request, the necessary material, for example, a bitumen-industrial substrate or rubber. Independently, choose and lay down the substrate – it is impossible.
And the latter, in order to avoid the breakdown of the laminate locks over time, and so that the joints between the tiles are less noticeable, it should be noted that the substrate should not be thicker than 3 mm thicker!