Latex over boards, tiles and concrete in Ewell
Refits in Ewell's older houses rarely strip back to one clean surface. Lift a worn kitchen vinyl and there may be quarry tiles in one corner, a patched concrete strip where a wall once stood, and timber boards through the doorway. Latex suits that kind of patchwork, provided each part of it is sound.
Timber comes first. Latex never goes straight onto bare floorboards, because boards shift with every footstep and a thin layer would crack along their edges. The boards are screwed down tight, then covered with flooring grade plywood fixed at close centres, and the latex goes over the ply. Sheet vinyl or LVT then lies on a surface with no board lines showing through.
Old ceramic or quarry tiles can stay where they are firmly bonded. Each one is tapped for hollows, loose tiles come out, grease and dirt are cleaned off, and a primer made for non-porous surfaces goes on before the compound. Sound residues of old adhesive left behind when carpet or vinyl is pulled up can be treated the same way; soft or patchy glue is removed first.
Uneven concrete in the original rooms is the third base. A few millimetres of latex covers trowel marks, small dips and shallow ridges, so a thin covering does not show them.
Converted flats make up 2% of Ewell's homes. Where a flat has been formed inside an older house, its upper floors are normally timber joists and boards, so the overboarding route applies there as well. If a floor is further out of level than latex can handle, the deeper compound options are set out under levelling uneven Ewell floors.
When latex is the wrong fix in Ewell
Latex smooths a floor; it does not mend one. Before it goes down, three questions decide whether it will last.
Is the base dry? An original interwar solid floor in Ewell may have been laid without a damp proof membrane worth the name, and latex laid over a damp slab loses its grip and can lift the new finish with it. A moisture test comes before any compound. Where the slab is wet, the answer is a membrane system or a new floor, never a thicker coat.
Is it firm? Springy boards, loose tiles and hollow screed all move under load, and a few millimetres of compound cannot hold them still. Boards are refixed and overboarded, loose tiles are lifted, and hollow screed is cut out and relaid through our screed repairs work.
Is it close to level already? Latex is designed to be thin. A kitchen floor that drops a couple of centimetres towards the garden door needs a screed first, and a skim of latex can then finish it.
Priming is the final check. Porous concrete, plywood, glazed tiles and calcium sulphate screed each take their own primer, and a calcium sulphate floor always has its laitance sanded off before priming. The same checks apply whether the house is near Ewell Court or Nonsuch Park, and latex screed in Sutton is handled the same way.
How we price latex screed in Ewell
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 Ewell
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Ewell
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 21.2 miles from Ewell, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include KT17 and KT19, and Epsom (1.4 miles), Kingston upon Thames (3.2 miles), Sutton (3.6 miles) and Merton (4.5 miles) are close by.
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