Sikabond adhesives elastic adhesives for wood floors
Sikabond adhesives are a high performance PU adhesive for wood floor bonding. There are basically three types of Sikabond adhesives, the full stick down, liquid batten and acoubond systems
Liquid Batten System
The Sika Bond adhesive Liquid Batten System makes it possible to install all types of wooden flooring on any substrate. This includes screeds, concrete, tiles, stone, metal, thermoplastic flooring and timber. Due to the versatility of SikaBond adhesives, it has the advantage of compensating for variations in floor levels by taking our surface irregularities.
Sikabond adhesives provide enable wooden floors to be bonded to solid and engineered timber flooring directly to the sub-floor, SikaBond eliminates the need for fixing battens and raising of thresholds. Once cured, SikaBond is fully elastic. This allows the differential movement between the bonded surfaces without the risk of delamination. When fixing timber with SikaBond adhesives, adjustments can be made up to 1 hour after application.
Fully Bonded System
SikaBond fully bonded system is a single component trowel applied adhesive with excellent sound absorbing qualities. When cured I provides a high bond strength and can be used for all types of wood flooring. SikaBond is solvent and moisture free, odourless and ready to use. When cured it is fully elastic providing footfall sound dampening properties. Further reductions can be made in sound transmission when used in conjunction with SikaŽ Silent Layer Mat.
Sound Insulating System
SikaŽ AcouBondŽ system comprises of SikaBondŽ single component gun grade elastic adhesive and the SikaŽ Silent Layer Mat. Together these Sika products provide a unique combination of elastic bonding technology and excellent sound reducing properties. SikaŽ AcouBondŽ system provides the ideal solution to both impact and reflective noise whenever timber floor finishes are installed.
Sikabond elastic bonding technology
For a long time, timber floors have not been nailed anymore, but bonded or laid as a floating floor by utilising a wood flooring underlay. Timber floors can therefore be laid in a time-saving manner direct to concrete without the need for a sub-floor by choosing one of the Sikabond adhesive products..
The optimum solution is elastic bonding with a Sikabond adhesive. This ensures an optimal durable bond of timber even under high mechanical and environmental stress that considerably exceeds the capacities of conventional adhesive bonding systems. No priming required, high tolerance regarding adhesive layer thickness, so the applicator can feel safe when laying the floor. Impact noise reduction and in-room noise-deadening properties of Sikabond elastic adhesives impress designers and owners.
Wooden floors are subjected to dynamic and static loads that have to be absorbed by all of the construction materials involved. Dynamic loads result from walking and movement on the floor or from sound induced vibrations. Static stress is caused by increase or decrease of the moisture level of the wood due to climatic conditions, an inevitable phenomenon that in combination with rigid adhesives is often the cause for damages.
