Levelling for unit refits on Coldharbour Lane
Employment land in Harpenden is small scale, and its floors reflect that. Coldharbour Lane is a protected employment location in the Harpenden Neighbourhood Plan, with warehouse and industrial units. Batford Mill on Lower Luton Road is a small estate of warehouse units with offices. When a unit changes hands or an office is refitted, the old coverings come up, and what lies underneath is rarely ready for new ones. Old carpet adhesive, painted lines, patched trenches where services were moved and worn concrete at doorways are all usual findings.
The sequence is fairly standard. Stripping comes first, getting off old glue, painted lines and anything loose, sometimes by grinding, as part of our floor preparation service. Damaged concrete, spalled edges and cracks are repaired next, as concrete floor repair. After that we prime to match the base and lay self levelling compound, usually between about 2mm and 10mm deep.
Offices are usually levelled to SR1, a 3mm limit under a 2m straightedge, which is what many thin sheet finishes ask for. SR2 allows 5mm and SR3 10mm, and a warehouse floor may be specified to one of those instead.
We price refits after a survey and work to the programme the fit-out contractor sets. Where a floor is too far gone for compound, we say so and quote for a new screed instead.
Joining old and new floors in Harpenden homes
At home the problem is usually a join. An open plan kitchen conversion knocks rooms together, and floors that were separate now run as one. One may be an older concrete slab, another a newer screed, and there may be a strip where a wall once stood. Lay LVT or large tiles across that and every step and hump shows.
Levelling compound ties them together. After priming each base with the right product, we pour compound across the whole area so it settles to one plane. Terraced houses make up 14% of Harpenden's homes, and in a narrower through room the same approach works on a smaller scale.
Compound has limits. Laid from about 2mm to around 10mm, it gives a smooth, flat finish. Pour it far thicker as a cover-up for a floor that ought to be rescreeded, and it may crack and come loose. If the old floor is hollow, crumbling or badly out of level, relaying with a new pumped screed is the better fix, and we tell you that at the survey rather than after.
This is professional levelling ready for the flooring fitter. Sanding timber floors is outside our work, and the compound is laid by us only, never sold for DIY.
How we price floor levelling in Harpenden
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 Harpenden
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Harpenden
Harpenden is about 23.2 miles north-north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including AL5 and AL3. The nearest towns to it are St Albans (4.5 miles), Luton (5.1 miles), Welwyn Garden City (6.5 miles) and Hemel Hempstead (6.6 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.
