Levelling floors on the Caterham Barracks and St Lawrence's sites
Caterham Barracks was a Foot Guards depot until it closed in 1995. The site became a housing estate, with a supermarket, The Arc arts centre and the Skaterham skate park alongside, and most of the former St Lawrence's Hospital is now housing too. Those redevelopments mixed new homes with conversions of older institutional buildings, and it is in the conversions that uneven existing floors tend to turn up when a new finish is planned.
Lay a thin finish on a wavy floor and every hollow shows through. Flatness is judged to BS 8204 by laying a 2m straightedge on the floor, and the gap under it may reach 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 or 10mm for SR3. Plenty of thin sheet floorings ask for SR1. An old floor that felt fine under carpet can fall well short once LVT is chosen.
Compound normally goes down at between 2mm and 10mm or so, with certain products able to build further. We clean the base first, then prime it to suit what it is, since concrete, sand and cement, calcium sulphate and leftover adhesive each want their own treatment. When compound lets go, a mismatched primer is normally to blame.
Some floors need more than compound. Where a thin build-up is enough, latex screed of a few millimetres is another route. Where the existing floor is breaking up, it needs a screed repair or replacement first.
Shop and extension floors across Caterham
Church Walk Shopping Centre sits opposite the station in Caterham Valley, and independent shops line the High Street on the Hill. When a unit is refitted, the new floor finish often exposes a worn or patched base, and the shop needs to reopen quickly. Fast drying compounds let the flooring fitter follow on with little delay.
Inside a house, trouble tends to show at the doorway between the original rooms and the extension. The house may be a century old and the extension new, so the two rarely meet at exactly the same height. A skim of compound blends the levels and fills shallow hollows, so a single run of flooring passes over the threshold with no bump.
Compound cannot fix everything. It is meant as a smoothing coat, and poured thick over a floor that ought to be replaced it may crack and come unstuck. Where the base rings hollow or is further out than compound can correct, relaying it in sand and cement is what lasts. For shop fit-outs a few miles away, see floor levelling in Redhill.
How we price floor levelling in Caterham
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 Caterham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Caterham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 30 miles from Caterham, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include CR3 and RH1, and Oxted (3.6 miles), Redhill (4.9 miles), Croydon (5.7 miles) and Reigate (6.3 miles) are close by.
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.
