Refits at The Square and Watchmoor Park
Shop and office refits in Camberley lean on compound more than any other job. The Square shopping centre dates from the late 1980s, and a shop refit in a centre of that age often finds an old floor that is not flat enough for the new finish. The Atrium adds shops, a cinema and a bowling alley to the town centre, while Watchmoor Park is an established business park and Albany Park sits just over the boundary in Frimley. Retail refits and office upgrades in buildings like these tend to need levelling, repairs and fast drying products, because the unit has to reopen on time.
Flatness is judged against BS 8204, with a 2m straightedge laid across the floor. Under it, SR1 permits 3mm of gap, SR2 permits 5mm and SR3 permits 10mm. SR1 is the class many thin sheet finishes demand, so an office floor that looked fine under old carpet tiles can fail once LVT or vinyl sheet is specified.
Most compound goes on between roughly 2mm and 10mm, with certain products able to build thicker. First the floor is cleaned, then primed to match what lies underneath: concrete, sand and cement, calcium sulphate or the remains of old adhesive. Pick the wrong primer and the compound tends to come away.
Where a slab is worn or contaminated, concrete floor grinding opens the surface first. Larger fit-outs may need a full commercial screeding package, and for units at Albany Park see floor levelling in Frimley.
Joining extensions to older Camberley floors
In Camberley houses the trouble is usually a lip or a slope where the extension meets the original room. With 38% of Camberley homes built between 1945 and 1972, plenty of extensions join an original floor that has had decades to settle. Garage conversions raise the same issue at the hallway door. Compound can blend the two and fill shallow hollows, letting one run of flooring cross from old to new with no hump.
Compound has limits. It smooths a floor rather than holding one up, and piling it thick onto a base that wants replacing can end in cracks and loss of bond. A floor that sounds hollow, breaks up or sits further out than compound can correct should come up, and relaying it in sand and cement is normally the way forward.
When the correction is small, a skim of a few millimetres does the job quickly, and fast drying products keep the flooring fitter on programme rather than waiting weeks. We will see the floor first and tell you straight which route it needs.
How we price floor levelling in Camberley
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 Camberley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Camberley
Camberley is about 14 miles south-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including GU15. The nearest towns to it are Frimley (1.7 miles), Sandhurst (2.6 miles), Crowthorne (3 miles) and Yateley (3.2 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.