What’s VDF Flooring? The Insider’s Guide to This Specialised Flooring Trend
VDF flooring, or vacuum dewatered flooring, is a construction technique we use for high traffic areas like roads, platforms and public places. Here, a vacuum is used to remove excess water and air from the concrete. That helps increase the tensile strength, abrasion resistance and durability of floors.
Using conventional concrete flooring for high traffic areas and large exposed spaces in hot weather, can present several issues. These can include dry shrinkage, floor warping, poor finishing and excessive load on concrete. Thereby, reducing chances of durability and longevity.
VDF flooring helps address the shortcomings of concrete flooring by reducing the water-cement ratio to an optimum level. VDF flooring can help you ensure cost-effectiveness, strength and high quality by mitigating these issues:
- Plastic shrinkage cracking, which can happen from surplus water
- Reduced durability, due to excessive bleeding of concrete
- Evaporating of water in the concrete, consequently impeding mixing, placing and consolidation of flooring
- Hot and windy weather, where VDF produces a smoother finish comparatively to ordinary concrete flooring