Joining old and new floors in Billericay houses
An extended house ends up with two floors of different ages side by side. The original ground floor may be sixty years old, slightly out of level and patched in places. Next to it, the new extension floor is flat and true. Where they meet there is often a small step, a ridge or a change in level across the width of the room. Under carpet it may never have mattered. Under LVT, sheet vinyl or large format tiles, it will show.
Levelling compound fixes that. After the surface is cleaned and primed, the compound is poured from about 2mm up to around 10mm deep and flows out to a smooth finish, bridging the old and new floors. We work to whatever the flooring maker sets. Plenty of thin sheet finishes want SR1, a maximum of 3mm under a 2m straightedge; SR2 permits 5mm.
Get the primer wrong and the compound comes loose. Bare concrete, sand and cement, calcium sulphate and old tiles each take their own primer, and calcium sulphate must have its laitance sanded away before that.
Compound is not the answer to every floor. If the original floor is damp, cracked or out by over about 10mm, pouring compound thick enough to hide it risks cracking and debonding. Relaying the floor is the better course, and the sand and cement screed page for Billericay covers that. For heated floors, the underfloor heating screed page explains what goes beneath any levelling coat.
Refits at Lake Meadows Business Park and Radford Way
Billericay's industrial area lies beside Radford Way near the station, with trade occupiers such as a Jewson builders merchant, and Lake Meadows Business Park on the same road. When an office or trade counter there is refitted, the new floor finish usually needs a flatter, cleaner base than the old one. Taking up carpet tiles or vinyl leaves adhesive residue, and old fixings or cable runs leave holes and chases.
Our approach is to strip back to a sound surface, grind or fill where needed and then lay compound to the flatness the specification sets. Concrete floor grinding removes old adhesive and high spots before levelling. Fast drying compounds keep a refit on programme, which matters when a business needs its unit back.
Units that take heavier loads are a separate case. Where a floor has broken up rather than just gone uneven, it may need concrete floor repair before any levelling, and we say so when we look at it rather than pouring compound over a problem. The same service reaches units in Basildon, about four miles away.
How we price floor levelling in Billericay
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 Billericay
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 Billericay
On the map, Billericay sits east of Slough, about 46.2 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM12 and CM11), next to Basildon (4 miles), Wickford (4.5 miles), Brentwood (4.8 miles) and Stanford-le-Hope (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.