Levelling older concrete floors in Basildon homes
Thin floor coverings are unforgiving. Lay LVT or sheet vinyl on a wavy slab and each hollow shows through, while big format tiles on the same floor rock or crack. That is why plenty of flooring makers specify SR1: no more than 3mm under a 2m straightedge. SR2, at 5mm, is accepted for many other finishes.
A Basildon slab from the new town years may be sound and still miss that mark. Settlement, old patch repairs and the join where a rear extension meets the original floor all leave steps and hollows. Self levelling compound, laid from about 2mm up to around 10mm, fills them and leaves a smooth, dense surface to stick flooring to.
Preparation decides whether it lasts. We strip off old adhesive, paint and anything loose before anything else. Next comes a primer matched to the base, because concrete, sand and cement, calcium sulphate and old tiles each take a different one. Skip that and the compound can lose its bond. Our floor preparation service covers grinding and cleaning a floor before it is levelled.
Compound has limits. It is not a cure for a floor that is breaking up, damp or several centimetres out, and pouring it deep to fix that kind of floor can crack and debond. A floor like that needs a new screed instead; see relaying a failed floor in sand and cement for how it is dug out and rebuilt.
Shop and office refits on Festival Business Park and Southfields
Commercial floors change use more often than house floors. When a unit at Festival Business Park, Southfields Business Park or Pipps Hill is re-let, the new tenant's carpet tiles, vinyl or LVT usually need a flatter base than the old finish did. Lifting the previous covering tends to leave adhesive, fixing holes and patched areas behind, and all of that has to be ground back or filled before compound goes down.
Levelling compound suits refits because fast drying products keep the programme moving, which matters when a shop in the town centre, which has seen investment, or a unit at Festival Leisure Park has a fixed opening date. We work to the flatness the flooring specification asks for, and we tell you plainly if a floor needs more than compound.
Heavier sites are a different job. Warehouse and factory floors at Burnt Mills Industrial Estate or along Cranes Farm Road carry heavy loads, and often need a heavy duty screed, grinding or concrete repair rather than a levelling coat. Those sit under our commercial floor screeding service. For thin work of a few millimetres in a home or small shop, latex screed is often the right product.
How we price floor levelling in Basildon
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 Basildon
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Basildon
On the map, Basildon sits east of Slough, about 47.4 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SS14, SS13, SS16 and SS15), next to Stanford-le-Hope (3.1 miles), Billericay (4 miles), Wickford (4.2 miles) and Rayleigh (6.7 miles).
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.
