Levelling old concrete floors in Harold Hill homes
Some 35% of Havering homes were built between 1945 and 1972, and Harold Hill, built by the London County Council from 1948 to 1958, falls inside that span. Floors from that era were laid for carpet on underlay, which hid dips and ridges. Swap that carpet for LVT, sheet vinyl or big format tiles and every flaw is on show. A dip shows as a shadow, a ridge wears through, and big tiles rock or crack.
The usual answer is a self levelling compound. We pour it onto a primed floor and it runs out smooth, normally somewhere between 2mm and 10mm thick, though certain products can be built up further. We check flatness by resting a 2m straightedge on the floor and measuring the biggest gap beneath it: up to 3mm is SR1, 5mm is SR2 and 10mm is SR3. Sheet vinyl and other thin coverings usually call for SR1.
Before any of that, the base gets primed, and the primer has to suit it. A Harold Hill concrete slab, a sand and cement topping and a calcium sulphate screed all need their own, and using the wrong one is a common reason compound comes loose. On an existing floor we also check for loose patches, old adhesive and hollow areas, which may need floor preparation first.
Extensions throw up a separate snag where the new floor meets the old house. Seldom do the two end up dead level, so we feather compound across the join and the new flooring carries straight over with no ridge. Where the existing floor is very thin or needs only a skim, a latex screed of a few millimetres may be enough.
Refit floors from Romford to SEGRO Park Rainham
Romford is a big shopping centre, and shop and office refits come with their own floor problems: old tiles and adhesive lifted, trenches cut for cables, and a slab that dips where a counter or partition stood. The new tenant needs the floor flat and dry fast, so fast drying compounds keep the programme moving.
SEGRO Park Rainham is providing modern industrial space as the first phase of the East Plus scheme, and there is older industrial land near the A12 at Harold Hill. A worn unit floor may need grinding before any levelling, and our concrete floor grinding service covers that stage.
There are floors compound cannot rescue. Spread thick over concrete that has settled or started to crumble, it is liable to crack and pull away from the base. If your floor is further out than compound is made to handle, you will hear that from us, and the fix becomes fresh screed, perhaps liquid screed pumped onto the cleaned-up slab.
Sanding timber boards, resin coatings and polished concrete are outside what we do. Across the Thames side towards Thurrock, there is a Grays page for levelling work too.
How we price floor levelling in Havering
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 Havering
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Havering
Havering is about 37.1 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including RM11, RM1, RM13 and RM5. The nearest towns to it are Barking and Dagenham (4.2 miles), Brentwood (5.4 miles), Redbridge (6.4 miles) and Chigwell (6.9 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.
