Levelling floors for LVT and tiles in Gillingham
Thin, stiff floor finishes give away every hollow underneath. LVT and sheet vinyl show small dips through the surface, and large format tiles rock or crack where the base is out. In a Gillingham hallway or shop we check with a 2m straightedge. Under BS 8204, a worst gap of 3mm rates SR1, 5mm rates SR2 and 10mm rates SR3. For a lot of thin sheet products, nothing short of SR1 will do.
Gillingham's houses tend to throw up two cases. One is an old solid floor in the town centre that has sunk unevenly over the decades. The other is where an existing house meets a new extension on the Ham, Peacemarsh and Wyke estates, and two floors of different ages seldom match exactly.
Compound works in a thin band, roughly 2mm at the shallow end and up to around 10mm. First we clean the base, repair anything loose and apply the right primer for what is underneath, whether sand and cement, calcium sulphate or concrete. Fast drying products keep things moving, so your flooring fitter can follow on soon.
If the floor is badly broken up or dips much more than that, compound is not the answer. Pile it on thick and it tends to crack or let go, so we would tell you to rescreed instead. For thin smoothing work, look at our latex smoothing screed, and for damaged patches, our screed repair work.
Refit floors at Brickfields and Kingsmead Business Park
A unit that changes hands often needs a different floor for the new tenant, and the old one rarely suits the next business. An office wants carpet tiles or LVT on a flat base, a shop or showroom wants a smooth surface for sheet flooring or tiles, and a workshop may need the old slab ground back and patched before anything else.
In Gillingham the commercial floors are mostly at Brickfields Business Park, Brickfields Industrial Estate, Kingsmead Business Park and The Old Market Centre on Lower Station Road, with more light industry and warehousing off Station Road. The Local Plan backs a bigger Brickfields Business Park and new employment land at Kingsmead, which could mean more units to fit out.
For a refit we survey the floor, strip or grind away old adhesive where necessary, fix the cracks and then level to whatever class the flooring supplier wants. Grinding the concrete back gets rid of old adhesive and coatings so primer and compound can bond. We fit our work into the fit-out programme so the next trades can follow on. The same compound work is available to homes and units in Salisbury.
How we price floor levelling in Gillingham
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 Gillingham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Gillingham
Gillingham is about 78.5 miles west-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SP8. The nearest towns to it are Warminster (12.3 miles), Frome (13.5 miles), Westbury (15.9 miles) and Trowbridge (19.7 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.
