Plywood, latex and old boards in Hastings' tall houses
Thin finishes such as LVT or sheet vinyl over the old boards of a Hastings flat conversion need a smooth, stable surface. Latex can give them one, but only once the timber below it is put right.
The boards are never covered with latex directly. Every board moves a little as people walk across it, and a thin compound laid straight onto them cracks along the joints. The boards are fixed down hard, any rotten or broken ones are replaced, and flooring grade plywood is screwed over the top at close centres. The plywood is primed, and the latex is mixed and spread over it.
If the floor still bounces, the problem is in the joists, and latex will not cure it. Those are repaired first, because a cracked finish costs more to put right than the joists do.
Latex earns its name from the liquid in the mix. The latex replaces water, so the set compound has a little flexibility and a stronger grip on difficult surfaces than a standard levelling compound. That suits plywood, which moves slightly with temperature and humidity.
A floor badly out of level is a different job. Where the boards sag across the room, our Hastings floor levelling page explains the build-ups that fix a larger dip, and the work there comes before any latex.
Kitchen refits in Hollington and Ore: tiles and old glue
Strip out a kitchen in one of the post-war or later homes of Hollington and Ore and the floor underneath is rarely tidy. Old ceramic or quarry tiles, patches of concrete and areas of glue from earlier vinyl sit side by side. Firmly bonded tiles can stay. Sound adhesive can sometimes stay too, once primed. Anything loose or soft is taken off, and our concrete floor grinding in Hastings handles stubborn residue.
With 78% of Hastings homes in council tax bands A to C, keeping a sound old floor and covering it with a few millimetres of latex is often the sensible choice over digging it out.
Older houses can mix a tiled kitchen with timber in the next room. Each base gets its own primer, and calcium sulphate screed needs its laitance sanded away first.
Damp decides the rest. A solid ground floor with no membrane, common in older Hastings houses, needs that fixing before any latex, which is set out on our sand and cement screed page for Hastings. The same latex work is offered in neighbouring Bexhill-on-Sea.
How we price latex screed in Hastings
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 Hastings
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Latex Screed from Slough to Hastings
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 70.8 miles from Hastings, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include TN34, TN37, TN35 and TN38, and Bexhill-on-Sea (4.9 miles), Hailsham (14.2 miles), Eastbourne (14.7 miles) and Polegate (14.9 miles) are close by.
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
