What latex screed does on Henley-on-Thames floors
Despite the name, nobody pours this material 35mm deep the way a liquid screed goes in, or bands it out at 65mm like sand and cement. One pack holds a cement based powder and the other holds latex liquid, and the two are stirred together with no water added. Spread across a room, the mix sets to a thin skin with a little give in it, and that rubbery quality lets it hold on to glazed tile, old concrete and ply where a water mixed product might peel away.
Henley's old town, traced by Hart Street, New Street and Friday Street, is where awkward bases tend to turn up. A kitchen or bathroom refitted more than once can hide red quarry tiles, glazed ceramic, a strip of newer concrete and a crust of hard vinyl adhesive. When those layers are dry and still locked on, there is no need to hack them up. They are scrubbed, keyed and primed to suit each surface, then skimmed in one pass.
Timber is a separate story. On upper floors, and in Henley flats carved out of larger houses, the subfloor is normally boards on joists. Those boards get screwed tight and covered with sheets of flooring grade plywood, and only the ply receives latex. Spreading it on the boards themselves would invite a crack at every gap.
Soft, thin coverings are the reason for all this care. Vinyl sheet, LVT, lino, rubber and carpet mould themselves to whatever sits beneath, so a tile edge or a plywood joint left proud will show through. For the wider choice between compounds and full screeds, see levelling floors in Henley.
When latex is wrong for a Henley-on-Thames floor
Before any primer is opened, the base is checked for three faults that no thin compound can cure.
Damp comes first in Henley. Houses built before 1919 account for 27% of the town's homes, and the cottages and terraces around Market Place, Bell Street and Friday Street were generally laid without a damp proof membrane. Moisture rising through a solid floor like that will push vinyl off regardless of what is spread under it. The answer there is to dig the floor out and rebuild it over a membrane and insulation, as set out under Henley sand and cement screeding.
Bounce is the second fault. A floor that flexes as you cross it will split a skim of latex along the board lines, so loose boards are fixed and the floor is overboarded first.
The third is a floor with real slope or hollows. Latex evens out millimetres, not centimetres, and building it up thick to hide a dip usually ends in cracking and debonding. A repair or a new screed has to come first.
Primer choice depends on what the latex will sit on. Concrete, glazed tile, ply and calcium sulphate screed each need their own product, and a calcium sulphate floor has its laitance sanded away before priming. Old paint, loose adhesive or coatings are dealt with through floor preparation before levelling.
How we price latex screed in Henley-on-Thames
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 Henley-on-Thames
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Henley-on-Thames
On the map, Henley-on-Thames sits west of Slough, about 11.2 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG9), next to Woodley (5.8 miles), Marlow (6 miles), Reading (6.5 miles) and Maidenhead (8 miles).
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