What latex screed handles in Biggleswade refits
Despite the name, latex screed is not a screed in the usual sense. The powder is cement based, and it is stirred into a latex liquid where an ordinary compound would use water. The latex is what lets it hold onto awkward surfaces. It goes on thin, normally a few millimetres, and its task is to turn a sound but rough surface into a smooth one for a thin covering.
Refits tend to uncover exactly those surfaces. Pull up the lino in a Biggleswade bathroom and there may be quarry or ceramic tiles still stuck fast, a concrete floor marked by years of patching, or a stubborn film of old adhesive. Where each of those is well bonded, latex can go over it after cleaning and priming, which spares you the dust and noise of breaking the lot out. Homes from 1919 to 1944 make up 6% of the town, and houses of that age can hide several generations of flooring, so we test each layer before deciding what stays.
Timber is treated differently. Bare floorboards flex and shrink, and latex poured onto them would crack along every joint. So the boards are first covered with flooring grade plywood, screwed down closely, and the latex is spread over the plywood.
The coverings that benefit are the thin and unforgiving ones: sheet vinyl, LVT, safety flooring, rubber and lino, with carpet also wearing better over a smooth base. Because the layer is so slim, the floor barely rises, which helps at a bathroom door where the landing level is fixed. A floor that is out of level across the room, rather than just rough, is a job for levelling compound to SR1 in Biggleswade.
When a Biggleswade floor needs more than latex
Latex makes a good surface better; it cannot rescue a bad one. Three faults stop the job before it starts.
Damp comes first. Latex is not a damp barrier, and moisture rising through an old solid floor will lift it and the vinyl above. A reading is taken before anything is mixed, and a wet floor gets its damp dealt with first.
Movement is next. Boards that bounce underfoot, or plywood fixed too loosely, will crack the latex within weeks. Loose joists and boards are fixed down before any overboarding.
The last is a floor that is badly out. A few millimetres of latex will not fill a deep dip or correct a slope, and a cracked or hollow base needs patching the screed underneath or a new screed. Raised ridges or lumps of old mortar can be taken down with diamond grinding before latex.
Priming follows the base. A calcium sulphate screed, more likely in a newer house, has its weak surface layer sanded off and always takes a compatible primer. Tiles and concrete each have their own primer too. We cover every part of town, from Market Place to the streets beside the River Ivel, and latex screed in Sandy is handled the same way.
How we price latex screed in Biggleswade
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your latex screed in Biggleswade
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Biggleswade
On the map, Biggleswade sits north-north-east of Slough, about 41.7 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SG18), next to Sandy (3.1 miles), Stotfold (5.1 miles), Baldock (7.4 miles) and Letchworth (7.7 miles).
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