Bd.M.1.2.1.

Bd. M. PAVING, FLOOR FINISHING AND DADO

Bd.M.1. Providing and laying rough Shahabad/Tandur/Kotah stone flooring,
25 mm to 30 mm thick and ...... cm wide in plain/diamond pattern on a bed of sand
1:2 lime mortar/1:4 cement mortar in­cluding cement float for mortar bedding striking
joints/cement pointing in mortar 1:3 curing and cleaning complete.
Bd.M.1.1. Materials -
Bd.M.1.1.1. Rough Paving Slabs - The flag stones specified in the item shall be got
approved by the Engineer. At its thin­nest part, no stone shall be thinner than 25 mm.
The flag stones shall be hard, sound, durable, resistant to wear, rectangular in shape
or square if directed by the Engineer and of the specified width. They shall have plain
surface. Uniformity of size shall generally be maintained for the flags used in any one
room. The stone flags shall be without any soft veins, cracks or flows and shall have a
uniform colour. They shall have even natural surfac­es free from broken flakes on top
and shall be chiselled on edges of the slab shall not be ensure uniform width of joint.
The evenness of the surface and edges of the slab shall not be marked by careless
dressing of slabs and no patching up shall be allowed for the slabs. The edges shall
be quite straight. The under face may be left as quarried. Samples of stone slabs to
be used and their dressing shall be approved by the Engineer and the slabs to be
used shall conform to the approved sample.
Bd.M.1.1.2. Bedding - Cement mortar or lime mortar for the bedding and cement
mortar for pointing shall be of the proportion as specified in the item. The lime mortar
shall comply with and cement mortar shall comply with B. 5 a. Cement mortar may
be used for the bedding only when lime mortar is not available. When sand bed is
mentioned in the item, sand used shall be coarse and shall not contain more than 10
per cent of clay.
Bd.M.1.2. Constructional Details -
Bd.M.1.2.1. Bedding - The base of cement or lime concrete shall be laid and
compacted to a reasonably true plain surface and to the required slopes and below
the level of the finished floor to the extent of the thickness of the slabs and mortar
bedding. Cement concrete or lime concrete bedding shall be paid under a separate
item. Cement mortar for bedding may be mixed manually or by a mechanical mixer.
Lime mortar shall be prepared in a mortar mill or pan. The amount of water added shall
be the minimum necessary to give just sufficient plasticity for laying and satisfactory
bedding. Care shall be taken in preparing the mortar to ensure that there are no hard
lumps that would inter­fere with the even bedding of the stones. Before spreading the
mortar, the sub-floor or base shall be cleaned of all dirt, scum or laitance and of loose
material and then well wetted without forming any pools of water on the surface. In
case of R.C.C. floors, the top, shall be left a little rough. All points of level for the
finished paving surface shall be marked out. The mortar shall then be evenly and
smoothly spread over the base by the use of screed battens only over so much areas
as will be covered with slabs within half an hour. The thickness of the mortar bedding
shall not be less 12 mm. not more than 25 mm. The required slope shall be given to
the bed. When sand bed is provided the sand shall be spread to give a thickness of
about 12 mm.

STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS  VOLUME II  BUILDINGS  2012 381