Floor Movement Control Joints

Control joints expansion joints and cold joints in concrete home structural concrete slab control joints expansion joints and cold joints in concrete without the proper type of joints in concrete it may crack in an unsightly or random manner causing damage and in a few instances result in trip hazards.

Floor movement control joints.

In other words if the concrete does crack you want to have an active role in deciding where it will crack and that it will crack in a straight line instead of randomly. The movement joints expansion joints and control joint profiles of our schlüter dilex series offer maintenance free and functional solutions for all relevant movement joints in tile coverings. Dt cover plate thermal movement floor to floor surface mount pedestrian traffic optional moisture or fire barrier. Control joints are planned cracks which allow for movements caused by temperature changes and drying shrinkage.

The range includes profile types for movement joints expansion joints and control joints as well as edge and transition movement and expansion joints. Not the entire floor if elsewhere the floor is an even temperature. Buildings are designed to allow movement in response to various forces including thermal expansion and contraction long term shrinkage of structures as well as seismic activity in some cases. The intent of the guideline regarding sun exposure is to recognize that areas that get warm or wet may experience greater amounts of differential expansion.

Why do rooms with more sunlight need more movement joints. Why are movement joints needed. Covers are used as expansion joint gap covers for areas that experience movement within structures for example in construction joints in concrete slabs.