Putting right new floors on Amesbury estates
A screed on a new build plot can go wrong in a few ways. It can curl at the edges as it dries, leaving high corners and a hollow sound. It can crack across a doorway or along a heating pipe. Or it can look fine and then fail its moisture test, so the flooring fitter refuses to start.
Levelling compound is part of the answer to the first two, but only once the cause is understood. Curling can reduce as the screed dries further. Cracks need assessing and, if the screed is sound either side, filling and bonding before compound goes over the top. Our screed repairs service covers that work.
Levelling compound normally goes on anywhere from 2mm to 10mm thick, and certain products are made to go thicker. Poured out, it finds the hollows on its own and cures to a smooth face. What we are aiming for is a BS 8204 class. Under a 2m straightedge, SR1 permits 3mm, SR2 5mm and SR3 10mm. Sheet vinyl and similar thin finishes usually insist on SR1.
Priming matters on every base. A calcium sulphate screed must have its laitance removed and a compatible primer applied before any compound goes on, or the two layers can part.
Where a floor is badly out, a thick pour of compound may crack and lift off. Then a new hand-laid sand and cement screed or a replacement section is the honest repair.
Solstice Park units and older Amesbury floors
At Solstice Park, beside the A303 junction, the warehouse, trade and office units need their floors levelled and repaired when they are refitted. A refit usually exposes a floor scarred by old adhesive, fixings and patched repairs. Before a new covering goes down, that floor is cleaned, repaired, primed to suit its base and levelled.
Fast drying compounds keep refits moving, often allowing the floor layer to start within a short window depending on the product. Laying in bays, room by room, lets a trade counter or office stay partly open. Our commercial screeding page covers new floors in larger units.
Older homes need the same care. Terraced houses make up 22% of Amesbury's homes, and where any older house meets a new extension, the two floors rarely line up exactly. A feathered compound across the join gives one continuous level for the new floor. Where the step is larger than compound can safely take, part of the floor is screeded first and the compound laid over both. For a floor about 17.5 miles away, see levelling floors in Warminster.
How we price floor levelling in Amesbury
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who levels your floor in Amesbury
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Amesbury
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 55.1 miles from Amesbury, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include SP4, and Tidworth (7 miles), Salisbury (7 miles), Andover (13.3 miles) and Devizes (15.5 miles) are close by.
More on floor levelling, part of our screeding services. Not sure whether you need a thin compound or a full flowing screed? See self levelling screed explained.
