Refits around The Arc and The Apex
When a shop, café or office in the centre of Bury St Edmunds changes hands, the floor often needs work before the new finish goes down. Old adhesive, patched screed and cut-out fixings leave a surface that no new finish will hide. The Apex, built on the former cattle market site in 2010, stands beside the Arc shopping centre, and the shops and venues around them all need floors that suit their use.
A levelling job there runs in a fixed order. We remove loose material and old adhesive, repair cracks and holes, then prime the base with the right product for what it is: cement screed, calcium sulphate screed, concrete or an existing floor. After that the compound goes down at whatever depth the floor needs, in a quick drying grade so the shop fit-out keeps to time.
We measure flatness under a 2m straightedge using the BS 8204 classes. SR1 is a 3mm tolerance, the one thin sheet floors often need; SR2 is 5mm and SR3 10mm. A shop fitting vinyl or LVT will usually want SR1. Each base needs its own primer, so we confirm what the floor is made of before the compound is chosen. A calcium sulphate screed, for example, must have its laitance sanded off first.
Where old tiles or coatings must come off first, our floor preparation and shot blasting service covers stripping and cleaning the base.
Joining a Bury St Edmunds house to its extension
An extension floor and the old house floor rarely meet perfectly. The new screed may be a few millimetres high or low at the doorway, and the old floor may slope or dip once the wall between them comes down. A thin layer of compound across both can bring them into one plane for a continuous floor finish. With rear extensions common on the post-war and late 20th century homes of Moreton Hall, that doorway join is worth checking before any flooring is ordered.
Then there are the tired solid floors in older Bury St Edmunds houses. A floor that is sound but uneven can be levelled rather than replaced. But compound has limits. Using deep compound as a substitute for screed risks cracking and debonding, and a smooth skin over hollow, damp or moving floors fixes nothing underneath. In parts of the town affected by old chalk workings, a sunken floor needs its cause investigated first.
When we find that, the quote says so, and offers a replacement hand-laid floor or a repair of the damaged screed in place of compound that would fail.
How we price floor levelling in Bury St Edmunds
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 Bury St Edmunds
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Bury St Edmunds
On the map, Bury St Edmunds sits north-east of Slough, about 76.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including IP33), next to Newmarket (13.1 miles), Sudbury (14.3 miles), Haverhill (16.3 miles) and Soham (17 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.
