Trade units at Kingsditch and Festival Trade Park
Festival Trade Park, off Runnings Road, added 14 new trade counter and warehouse units to the Kingsditch estate. When a unit like these is fitted out, the showroom, counter and office areas usually need a flatter floor than the warehouse behind them. Thin finishes such as vinyl and carpet tiles show every ridge and dip in a slab, and a warehouse floor laid for racking was never meant to meet that standard.
BS 8204 measures this by laying a 2m straightedge across the slab and checking the gap underneath. SR1 means 3mm or less, SR2 5mm and SR3 10mm, and most thin sheet flooring asks for SR1. On a sound slab, a pour of compound somewhere between about 2mm and 10mm deep gets it there, and fast drying versions stop a trade counter fit-out from stalling.
Preparation comes first. Coatings, adhesive and contamination have to be removed and the base primed with the right product, since concrete, screed and old tiles each need a different one. We strip that back through our grinding service for concrete floors.
Offices bring similar needs. The Cyber Central campus planned at Golden Valley will need smooth, level screeds and bases for raised access floors. Where a slab has cracks, sounds hollow or sits well off level, a skim will not cure it; you need a new screed or our screeding for commercial buildings, and we will say plainly which one.
Levelling Cheltenham flats before new flooring
Flats make up 27% of Cheltenham's homes, and 7% are flats in converted houses or other converted buildings. When a flat is refurbished and the old carpet makes way for LVT or engineered wood, the floor underneath often needs attention. A screed with dips or a ridge at a doorway will show through a thin finish.
In a converted flat, the base can be a patchwork: part screed, part old boards overlaid with ply, part a newer concrete floor where a kitchen was moved. Each needs the correct primer before compound goes on, and some bases are not suitable at all. We check what is there before pricing.
Compound has its limits. Pile it on thick to cover a floor that should really be relaid and it is likely to crack and lift. When a Cheltenham flat floor dips by over 10mm or so, we lay a new screed first, often a traditional sand and cement floor, and skim afterwards only if it needs it.
Sanding timber boards is not part of our work, and neither is selling levelling products for DIY.
How we price floor levelling in Cheltenham
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 Cheltenham
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.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Cheltenham
On the map, Cheltenham sits west-north-west of Slough, about 66.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GL50, GL51, GL53 and GL52), next to Tewkesbury (7.2 miles), Gloucester (7.7 miles), Stroud (12.3 miles) and Cirencester (13.5 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.
