Latex over tiles, boards and glue in Burgess Hill
A kitchen or bathroom refit in a Burgess Hill house tends to expose more than one surface. There may be ceramic tiles under the old units, a strip of concrete where a wall came out, timber upstairs and a film of old adhesive everywhere the last floor was stuck. A thin finish such as sheet vinyl or LVT will show every one of those changes.
Latex screed suits that mix because the latex in the liquid gives the cured layer grip and some give. It works over four types of base. Firmly bonded ceramic or quarry tiles can stay, once they are cleaned and checked for hollow spots. Uneven older concrete takes it after loose material is removed. Hard, well stuck old adhesive can sometimes be left and primed. Timber floors must first be overboarded with flooring grade plywood screwed at close centres, since latex is never laid on bare boards.
Only 6% of homes here date from between the wars, so the floors meeting a refit are mostly later concrete. On a floor like that, latex is often all that stands between a worn slab and a new finish.
What finish is planned changes the target, and the flatness classes are set out on our Burgess Hill floor levelling page. If tiles turn out to be loose or the concrete is breaking up, that is dealt with first through screed repairs.
Where latex will not fix a Burgess Hill floor
Latex is a smoothing layer, and it relies on the floor below. Three faults need fixing before it can go down.
A floor that moves is the first. Boards that bounce will crack a thin skim along every joint, so they are screwed down and overboarded first.
Damp is the second. We test with a hygrometer before quoting. Latex does not stop moisture from below, and a damp floor needs a membrane, which may mean a rebuilt floor in place of a skim.
The third is level. Where a floor drops badly across a room, a few millimetres cannot correct it, and a repair or new screed comes first.
Newer homes need a different check. The Northern Arc and other recent building in the town are more likely to have a flowing screed under the finish. If that floor is calcium sulphate, its laitance has to be sanded off and the surface primed with a compatible product before any latex. Our Burgess Hill anhydrite screed page explains why that material needs this treatment.
Whether the house is off Folders Lane, in West Town or near World's End, the same checks come first. Horsham has a latex screed page of its own.
How we price latex screed in Burgess Hill
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 Burgess Hill
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.
Latex Screed from Slough to Burgess Hill
On the map, Burgess Hill sits south-south-east of Slough, about 45.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RH15 and BN6), next to Haywards Heath (3.1 miles), Lewes (8.5 miles), Brighton and Hove (9.2 miles) and Southwick (9.6 miles).
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