VDF Flooring also known as Vacuum Dewatered Flooring is a special type of Flooring Technique to achieve High Strength, Longer Life, Better Finish and Faster Work. This type of floor is suitable for high abrasion & heavy traffic movement.

The Vacuum Dewatered Flooring or VDF Flooring is a system for laying high quality concrete floors where the key is Dewatering of Concrete by Vacuum Process wherein surplus water from the concrete is removed immediately after placing and vibration, thereby reducing the water: cement ratio to the optimum level.

Vacuum Dewatered Flooring (VDF) is a special type of Flooring Technique to achieve High Strength, Longer Life, Better Finish and Faster Work. This type of floor is suitable for high abrasion & heavy traffic movement. TheVDF is a system for laying high quality concrete floor. Concrete Vacuum Dewatering System…

Procedure: In this system of VDF Flooring or Vacuum Dewatered Flooring, concrete is poured in place & vibrated with a poker vibrator especially to the sides of the panel for floor thickness more than 100mm. Then surface vibration is done using double beam screed vibrator running over the surface, supported on channel shuttering spaced 4.0 meters apart. The screed vibrator is run twice to achieve optimum compaction & levelling. The vibrated surface is then levelled using a straight edge.

After this a system of lower mats & top mat is laid on the green concrete & this is attached to a vacuum pump. This draws out surplus water if any. The concrete is left to stiffen. When the base concrete has stiffened to the point when light foot traffic leaves an imprint of about 3-6 mm, Floor Hardener is applied at an even application rate of between 3-5 Kg/Sqmt. Any bleed water should now have evaporated, but the concrete should have a wet sheen.

The concrete is then further compacted and levelled using Power Floater followed by finishing as per the requirement using Power Trowel.

– Increased Compressive Strength
– Increased Tensile Strength
– Increased Abrasion Resistance
– Minimum Shrinkage & Floor Wraps
– Decreased Cement Consumption

– Warehouses, Godowns
– Roads, Sports Courts
– Cellars, Parking Areas
– Production Areas,
– Pharmaceutical Companies
– As the base floor for Epoxy & PU Floorings

Groove Cutting is cutting the laid concrete providing grooves of size 5mm wide and one third of the thickness of the concrete (or as required at site) within 48 hours of laying of the concrete to form bays of 4Mtrs X 4Mtrs using heavy duty cutting machine with diamond cutting wheel and filling of the grooves with appropriate sealant.

Concrete expands and contracts constantly with changes in the temperature, the moisture content of the air and due to drying of cement which results in shrinkage. The movements result in stress that can cause cracks in the concrete and destabilization of the base.

Uncontrolled cracking can cause an uneven surface, which is subject to increased wear over time and water seepage, which can damage the substrate. Though cracking is almost impossible to prevent, it can be controlled. The use of specific types of control joints helps accommodate the movement of the concrete and avoid long-term damage.

Making Grooves is one such method to insert contraction joints into slabs to guide cracks along a predetermined line. The purpose of the Groove Cutting is to weaken the slab along the approved line so that the slab cracks there instead of somewhere else. In order to be effective, the contraction joint must be at least one quarter as deep as the slab is thick.,

In case of heavy load traffic, a Load Transfer mechanism is used. Load transfer devices prevent the cement slabs from shifting under heavy loads. Shifting can cause uneven slabs and breakdown in the joints. Dowels, load plates, or slots can be embedded into the concrete to act as load transfer devices. These devices are laid perpendicular to the construction joint, extending into both slabs across the joint. Their purpose is to distribute the load evenly between slabs thereby protecting the concrete along the joints.

Providing grooves of size 5mm wide and 25mm deep (or as required at site) to form bays of 4Mtrs X 4Mtrs using groove cutting machine with diamond cutting wheel and filling of the grooves with appropriate sealant.

VDF Flooring or Vacuum Dewatered Flooring or Tremix Flooring is a system for laying high quality concrete floors where the key is Dewatering of Concrete by Vacuum Process wherein surplus water from the concrete is removed immediately after placing and vibration, thereby reducing the water cement ratio to the optimum level.

VDF Flooring or Vacuum Dewatered Flooring or Tremix Flooring increases the Compressive Strength, Tensile Strength, and Abrasion Resistance and minimizes the Shrinkage and Floor Wraps. VDF Flooring results in High Strength, Longer Life, Better Finish and Faster Work. This type of floor is suitable for high abrasion & heavy traffic movement.

The full form of VDF Flooring is Vacuum Dewatered Flooring.

(VDF Flooring Specifications or Flooring Specifications or VDF Flooring Methodology or VDF Flooring Procedure or Vacuum Dewatered Flooring Specification or Vacuum Dewatered Flooring Procedure)

* Tying Line Dori (Threads) as per the slope requirements
* Laying Guide Rails to every 4 meters using MS Channels or as required in straight lines along the Line Dori, taking levels as per the slope and fixing them using concrete also called grouting and left to set for a minimum of 24 hours
* Pouring the concrete in between the channels and spreading using Shovel or Hoe (Kudal/Parah)
* Vibrating the concrete with a poker vibrator especially to the sides of the panels
* Surface Vibration the concrete using Double Beam Screed Vibrator running over the guide rails twice to achieve maximum compaction for RCC with double mats
* Final levelling of the concrete using the Straight Edge/Bull Float/Aluminium Bottom (Fanti/Baddha)
* A system of lower mats & top mat is laid on the green concrete & this is attached to a vacuum pump. This draws out surplus water if any. (We strongly oppose dewatering of RMCs. RMCs have water cement ratio already maintained to its minimum possible level by addition of admixtures. Further dewatering decreases the water cement ratio below the required level thereby causing undulations in the surface, loss in strength and formation of cracks.)
* The concrete is left to stiffen. When the base concrete has stiffened to the point when foot traffic leaves an imprint of about 3-6 mm and any bleed water should now have evaporated, but the concrete should have a wet sheen, Floor Hardener is applied at an even application rate of 3-7 Kg/Sqm or as per the requirement of the floor.
* Application of Power Floater on the surface until the surface is sufficiently compacted & levelled with no major lines appearing any more
* Final finishing using Power Trowel and trowelling until the required finish is achieved. Finish could be any of the Smooth Finish, Sand Finish or Line Finish.