Bathrooms, utilities and refits across Crowthorne
Big houses have plenty of floors that are never dug up. In a Crowthorne home the ground floor may be opened out for an extension, but the bathrooms, en suites, cloakroom and utility are usually refitted where they are, on the base they already have. That is the work latex is made for.
Upstairs, the base is normally timber. Latex never goes onto bare floorboards: they move with the seasons and flex underfoot, and the compound would crack along every joint. Instead the boards are fixed down, overboarded with flooring grade plywood, and the latex is laid on the plywood once it has been primed. The result is a smooth, solid face for safety flooring in a shower area or LVT in an en suite.
Downstairs, a utility or an older kitchen may still have quarry or ceramic tiles. Firmly bonded ones can stay. We degrease them, prime with a product suited to tiles and lay the latex over the top, so grout lines and chipped edges disappear under the new vinyl.
Concrete that has worn uneven, or that still carries a thin, sound layer of old adhesive, can take latex as well. Residue that is loose, soft or thick is a different matter and comes off first, often by grinding the floor back.
Homes built between 1919 and 1944 are only 3% of Crowthorne's stock, but where an older house does have a timber ground floor, the same rule holds: boards fixed and overboarded first, never latex laid straight on.
Checking a Crowthorne floor before any latex goes down
Problems with latex nearly always start with the base, so the inspection comes before the price.
We walk the floor and feel for spring. Boards that bounce or creak are screwed down, and if a joist is at fault it is put right before the plywood goes on. Set latex is stiff and has no tolerance for movement.
We test for damp. A latex skim will not stop moisture coming up through a slab, and vinyl or rubber laid on top will bubble or lose its grip. A ground floor that reads wet needs a membrane or a rebuilt floor, and the options for that are on sand and cement screed in Crowthorne.
We check level with a straightedge. A floor that falls across the room by more than a few millimetres needs a deeper compound or a screed before latex, and floor levelling in Crowthorne explains how that call is made.
Then comes the primer. Plywood, old tiles, concrete and calcium sulphate each take a different one. If the base turns out to be calcium sulphate screed, its laitance is sanded off and the surface primed before any latex goes near it. Skip that step and the bond becomes the weak point. We cover Crowthorne including Dukes Ride and the Broadmoor Estate, and also lay latex screed in Sandhurst.
How we price latex screed in Crowthorne
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your latex screed in Crowthorne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Crowthorne
On the map, Crowthorne sits south-south-west of Slough, about 13 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG45), next to Sandhurst (1.6 miles), Yateley (2.3 miles), Camberley (3 miles) and Wokingham (3.3 miles).
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.