Refitting commercial floors from Ansty Park to Tile Hill
Coventry's commercial sites vary. Jaguar Land Rover's Whitley plant is one of its research and design centres. Just outside the city, Ansty Park, built on the former Ansty Aerodrome, houses Cadent Gas and the London Electric Vehicle Company, with a Rolls-Royce factory to its south. In Tile Hill, former factory land now mixes housing with small industrial units. When an office or unit on sites like these is refitted, the new floor finish depends on the base beneath it.
Flatness under BS 8204 is measured with a 2m straightedge. Coventry refits are judged on what shows under the straightedge: 3mm at most passes SR1, 5mm passes SR2, 10mm passes SR3. Thin sheet finishes commonly call for SR1, and LVT will telegraph hollows that carpet tiles would mask.
Typical compound depths run from about 2mm to roughly 10mm, and particular products can be taken further. The base is cleaned and primed with the right primer for it, whether bare concrete, sand and cement, calcium sulphate or old adhesive, since each one needs different treatment. On an Ansty Park office refit, a fast drying grade keeps the programme moving, and a big floor can be split into zones so some of it stays in use.
Some industrial slabs need more than compound. Before compound, a worn factory slab sometimes needs concrete floor grinding or concrete floor repair. K & B does not offer resin, polished concrete or structural slab work.
Levelling floors in Tile Hill flats and Coventry homes
In a refurbished flat, the old floor finish comes up and the surface underneath is often not ready for new LVT. Post-war blocks such as the Banana flats on Jardine Crescent have acoustic screeds and floor levelling as part of any refurbishment, so levelling is planned alongside the acoustic work, with the primer matched to the base.
Houses bring their own problems. With 31% of Coventry's homes built between 1945 and 1972, plenty of floors have settled or been patched over the years, and a new extension floor beside one rarely meets it at the same height. A thin layer of compound takes out the step and the dips, so the new finish runs straight through.
Compound has limits. It is a finishing skim, and heaped on to rescue a floor due for replacement it is liable to crack and part company with the base. Hollow, crumbling or badly sloping Coventry floors call for fresh screed instead, often sand and cement in Coventry. For thin builds of a few millimetres, latex screed is an option, and screed repairs deal with local damage.
How we price floor levelling in Coventry
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 Coventry
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Coventry
On the map, Coventry sits north-north-west of Slough, about 70.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CV1, CV2, CV5 and CV3), next to Bedworth (5.1 miles), Kenilworth (5.4 miles), Nuneaton (8.1 miles) and Royal Leamington Spa (8.1 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.
