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February 9, 2023

How do you make sure that a single, large, contiguous area of concrete floor is completely flat, completely level and without hollow drum, shelling, cracking and inequality on the ground? The answer is a laser leveling flooring.
What is Laser leveling Concrete Flooring ?
When you are in your own home and need to use concrete to pave a concrete area of one square meter or less, you only need to use nails and a strong string to achieve leveling, but when you need to level the entire room when paving a large area of the floor or even a garden, a laser concrete leveling machine is needed.
You can see in the image below that the system comprises two components, a laser transmitter and a levelling machine.
The laser transmitter is very similar to the laser system you see regularly being used on construction projects and public works. It transmits a laser beam across the area of the floor with exact precision.
The levelling system consists of a laser sensor, a vibration unit and a scraper plate.
The scraper plate is set at a fixed distance from the height of the laser sensor. The scraper is drawn across the freshly poured concrete levelling the surface with complete accuracy. The vibration unit follows behind making the concrete surface completely smooth.It improves the quality of floor. Effectively solve the problems of hollow drum, shelling, cracking and inequality on the ground, and the construction quality is more stable and smooth.
There are two basic types of laser levelling machine; two wheeled walk behind system like DZ25-2/ DZ30-2/ WS25-2 laser leveling, or four wheeled, ride-on machine like the YZ25-4/ YZ28-4S/ WS-940/ WS980/ WS-740/ WS-840/ YZ25-4E laser leveling, ( Large telescopic arm type concrete laser leveling such as YZ40-4E, YZ40-4, YZ30-4, YZ27-4.)
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