Levelling retail floors at the Pentagon Shopping Centre
The Pentagon Shopping Centre serves Chatham town centre, and Horsted retail park sits on the Walderslade side. When a unit is refitted, the old finish comes up and leaves a base with adhesive residue, patched channels and dips where counters and fixtures stood. Retail units call for a well-prepared base before any new floor goes down.
First the base is cleaned back and repaired, then primed with whatever suits it, whether that is screed, concrete or an old floor. Compound then goes on, normally at a depth of roughly 2mm to 10mm, until the surface is within tolerance.
That tolerance is set by BS 8204 and measured under a 2m straightedge. The allowed gap is 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 and 10mm for SR3. Many thin sheet finishes demand SR1, because every dip shows through vinyl. Fast drying compounds keep a refit moving so the shopfitter can follow on. Before any compound goes down, we check the whole unit with the straightedge, because a floor that looks flat from the doorway can still fall outside the class the new finish requires.
Chatham Maritime mixes housing with commercial uses on former dockyard land. Across the town, dockside conversions and workshop floors call for the same well-prepared base. Where the existing floor is damaged beyond a skim, our concrete floor repair service or floor preparation comes first, so the compound has something sound to bond to.
Chatham Maritime homes and levelling before new flooring
Newer homes at Chatham Maritime are more likely to need screed repairs or levelling than a new floor. When a carpet comes up for LVT or engineered wood, the screed underneath can show hairline cracks, patches or a few millimetres of unevenness. A repair and a thin coat of compound usually put that right. See screed repairs if cracks or hollow areas need fixing first.
In older houses the job is different. A kitchen extension on one of the terraces towards Luton can sit a few millimetres off the original floor, leaving a lip where the two meet. Compound feathered across the join lets one run of flooring go straight through.
The limit is depth. Compound poured far deeper than about 10mm, as a stand-in for a new screed, is liable to crack and come away from the base. Where a floor is well out of level, damp or crumbling, it needs a new screed, and sand and cement screed in Chatham sets out that work. Shop units a short way off in Gillingham are covered on floor levelling for Gillingham shops.
How we price floor levelling in Chatham
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 Chatham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Chatham
On the map, Chatham sits east of Slough, about 51.6 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including ME4 and ME5), next to Rochester (1 miles), Gillingham (2.5 miles), Snodland (5.2 miles) and Maidstone (7.7 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.
