Levelling floors in Meads and Upperton conversions
Victorian villas in Meads and Upperton that have been split into flats bring two problems at once. The floors are often uneven timber, and a new floor between two flats needs an acoustic build-up. Once the boards are secured and a suitable layer is in place, levelling compound gives the finish a smooth, flat surface to sit on.
Flatness is checked with a 2m straightedge, following BS 8204. The gap beneath it can be 3mm at most for SR1, 5mm for SR2 and 10mm for SR3. Vinyl, LVT and other thin sheet finishes often need SR1, and large format tiles are just as fussy. A floor that looks fine under carpet can fall well outside those limits.
Most compound goes down between about 2mm and 10mm thick, though some products can be laid deeper. Priming comes first, and the primer has to suit the base: sand and cement, calcium sulphate, concrete and timber each need something different.
There is a limit. Pouring compound thick over a floor that is well out of level, cracked or hollow is likely to end in cracking and debonding. Then the honest answer is a new screed, and our sand and cement screed in Eastbourne is often the right route for a failed solid floor. For very thin finishing coats over sound floors, our latex screed service is another option.
Shop and unit refits around The Beacon and Lottbridge Drove
Commercial refits are the other side of floor levelling in Eastbourne. The Beacon shopping centre, which replaced the Arndale and opened its extension in 2018, and the Admiral Retail Park both contain units where a new tenant brings new flooring. The Lottbridge Drove commercial area, about 120 acres of industrial, warehouse, trade counter and retail uses including Hammonds Drive Industrial Estate, adds warehouses and trade counters.
In those units the old floor often carries adhesive, patches and changes in level where partitions came out. The base is cleaned back, repaired where needed, primed and levelled to the class the new floor needs. Where shopfitters are waiting, we use fast drying products so the rest of the fit-out can follow on quickly.
At Sovereign Harbour, harbourside apartments and townhouses sometimes need a levelling layer before new flooring over existing underfloor heating. Compound over a heated floor must be compatible with the system and applied at a thickness that suits it.
Where a floor needs more than a skim, for example a worn concrete surface, our concrete floor repair service deals with it first. We also level floors in Bexhill-on-Sea.
How we price floor levelling in Eastbourne
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 Eastbourne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Eastbourne
On the map, Eastbourne sits south-east of Slough, about 66.4 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BN21, BN20, BN23 and BN22), next to Polegate (4.1 miles), Hailsham (6.8 miles), Seaford (7.8 miles) and Bexhill-on-Sea (9.9 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.
