Latex in Farnham's period houses and town centre
A period house rarely offers one tidy base. A Georgian or Victorian kitchen being refitted may have quarry tiles under the old lino, boards in the hallway beside it, and a concrete patch where a range or chimney breast once stood. Latex is the thin layer that lets one new finish run across all three, provided each part is firm and dry.
Over timber, the boards are screwed down and covered with flooring grade plywood before any latex goes on. Bare boards move too much and would crack a thin compound along every joint. In a listed house, check with the council before fixing anything to an original floor, because consent may be needed.
Where old tiles are firmly bonded, they can usually stay. Lifting them can damage what lies beneath, and in an older building that base may be fragile. Loose tiles are taken up, the rest are cleaned and primed with a product made for glazed or dense surfaces, and the latex smooths over the grout lines.
Interwar homes account for 15% of Farnham's housing, and their concrete floors often carry decades of patching that thin vinyl or LVT would show. A latex skim hides those marks.
The town centre has its own needs. Shop and restaurant units in the older buildings of West Street and Castle Street are refitted from time to time, and a restaurant kitchen usually wants safety flooring on a smooth, sound base. Latex over the primed existing floor gives it one. Where a unit's floor is badly out of level, the deeper option is covered under levelling compound for Farnham shops.
Checking a Farnham floor before latex goes down
Latex only works on a base that is sound, dry and close to level, so the floor is checked before a price is fixed.
Damp is the first test. Older Farnham houses can have solid floors with no membrane, and latex does not cure damp. Laid over a wet slab, it can debond and take the vinyl or LVT with it. Where a moisture reading fails, a membrane goes in or the floor is replaced with a new sand and cement floor for period rooms.
Movement is the second. Boards that bounce, tiles that ring hollow and screed that has come away from its base all need fixing before a thin compound goes on. Hollow or cracked areas are cut out and patched through our screed repairs service.
Level is the third. Latex is meant to be thin, so a floor that falls away by several centimetres across a room needs building up with screed first.
Primer follows from the base. Plywood, porous concrete, glazed tiles and calcium sulphate screed each need a different one. On a newer flat with a calcium sulphate screed, the laitance is sanded off before priming. Postcodes here include GU9 and GU10, and latex screed in Godalming follows the same method.
How we price latex screed in Farnham
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 Farnham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Farnham
On the map, Farnham sits south-south-west of Slough, about 22.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GU9 and GU10), next to Aldershot (2.9 miles), Fleet (4.9 miles), Farnborough (5.6 miles) and Frimley (7.4 miles).
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