Latex for refitted kitchens and bathrooms in Brackley
A house built in the 1970s, 80s or 90s has usually been refitted at least once. Each refit leaves something behind: tiles laid over the original concrete, an adhesive bed from a vinyl floor, a filled channel where pipes were rerouted, a slight step where a wall was taken out. LVT, sheet vinyl and lino are thin enough to show every one of those marks.
Latex screed is the trade's answer for this kind of base. Instead of water, the cement based powder is mixed with a latex liquid. That gives the cured layer more grip and a touch more flexibility than a plain compound, which helps on mixed or awkward substrates. It is spread a few millimetres thick and fills the small changes in height between one material and the next.
Getting the base right comes first. Concrete is cleaned of dust and loose material. Old ceramic tiles stay only if every one is firmly bonded, and they are degreased and keyed. Adhesive left from a previous floor can sometimes remain if it is thin, hard and stuck fast. Timber bathroom floors upstairs are overboarded with flooring grade plywood, screwed down, before any latex goes near them, because bare boards move and would crack it.
Then the base is primed with a product suited to it, and the latex is mixed to the maker's ratio and spread. Over a calcium sulphate screed, the laitance is sanded off and a compatible primer goes down first, without exception. Where that screed was poured to a CA grade, anhydrite flow screed in Brackley explains what the material needs.
Brackley floors that need more than latex
Latex smooths a surface. It does not cure what is wrong underneath, and three faults mean other work comes first.
The first is movement. If an upstairs floor bounces, or boards creak and shift underfoot, they need refixing and proper plywood overboarding. A thin cement based layer on a flexing floor can crack within weeks.
The second is damp. In the older buildings around the market place, a solid floor may have weak or missing damp protection, and a garage slab may never have had a membrane at all. Latex on damp concrete loses its bond, and the vinyl on top can blister. We check moisture before anything is mixed.
The third is level. Latex is meant for a few millimetres. Where a floor drops well beyond that, perhaps at the edge of an old extension, the gap needs a deeper levelling compound or a fresh screed, and floor levelling in Brackley covers that choice. If a section of the old floor is cracked or breaking up, concrete floor repair is the place to start.
Working out which of these applies is part of the quote, so the latex goes onto a floor that will hold it and the new flooring lasts.
How we price latex screed in Brackley
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 Brackley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Brackley
Brackley is about 40.7 miles north-north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including NN13. The nearest towns to it are Buckingham (7.1 miles), Banbury (8.3 miles), Bicester (9.4 miles) and Towcester (9.5 miles).
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