Levelling showroom and shop floors across Bicester
Commercial floors change more often than domestic ones. A showroom or workshop at Bicester Heritage and Bicester Motion, on the former RAF Bicester airfield, may need a smooth, level surface before a new finish goes down, and motorsport teams need floors that are flat and hard wearing. The shops and restaurant units at Pioneer Square, opened in 2013, and the outlet at Bicester Village, which has plans to grow by about a quarter, face the same question each time a unit is refitted.
The measure is flatness under a 2m straightedge, set out in BS 8204. Under that rule, SR1 means no gap over 3mm, SR2 no more than 5mm, and SR3 up to 10mm. Thin sheet floors tend to need SR1, since vinyl and LVT give away every hollow underneath.
Before any compound, the existing floor gets attention. Old adhesive, paint and loose material come off, sometimes by concrete floor grinding, and cracks and holes are repaired. A primer chosen for what is underneath, be it concrete, sand and cement or calcium sulphate, goes on next. Then the compound is mixed, poured and spread out, settling to a smooth, level face.
Fast drying products let a shop floor take its covering soon after, which keeps a refit programme moving. For thin smoothing coats over a sound floor, latex screed is the related service, usually only a few millimetres deep. Where a whole unit needs a new wearing floor rather than a skim, the work is commercial screeding rather than levelling.
Where a Bicester extension meets the old floor
At home, the classic levelling job is the join. An extension is added to a house built decades earlier, and the old floor and the new one never quite line up. The difference may be a few millimetres, or the old floor may simply be uneven across the room. Terraced houses, which make up 30% of Bicester's homes, often have long through rooms where the problem shows along the whole length.
Compound bridges that gap cleanly if it is small. Most compounds are designed to go down somewhere between 2mm and 10mm, though a few products allow more. Past that, it is the wrong fix. Piling compound thick onto a floor that ought to be rescreeded tends to end in cracking and debonding.
So the honest question on every job is whether the floor is sound. A screed that is hollow, crumbling or badly out of level needs a new sand and cement screed in Bicester or local repairs, not a skim over the top. A sound floor that is just uneven is a good candidate for compound.
Sanding timber floorboards is not part of what we offer. We also cover nearby towns, including floor levelling in Kidlington.
How we price floor levelling in Bicester
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 Bicester
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Bicester
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 33.3 miles from Bicester, which lies to the north-west. Postcodes here include OX26, and Kidlington (7.8 miles), Brackley (9.4 miles), Buckingham (10.1 miles) and Oxford (11 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.