Office and Swan Centre refits in Leatherhead
When an office floor is stripped for a new tenant, what is left is rarely ready for new finishes. Old adhesive, patched screed, cable trenches and dips at the joins between slabs all show through carpet tiles, and raised access floors need a level base for their pedestals to sit correctly.
The target is set by BS 8204 and measured under a 2m straightedge. Thin sheet finishes often call for SR1, which permits up to 3mm. SR2 allows 5mm and suits carpet tiles and most tiled floors. SR3 allows 10mm. The flooring maker's requirement, printed in its fitting instructions, decides which class to aim for.
Shop units in the Swan Centre, built in the 1980s redevelopment of the town centre, bring a different pressure: time. A refit has to be finished before the unit reopens, so the floor is prepared, primed and levelled with fast drying products, and where a deeper fill is needed, a quick drying screed goes down first. The base is cleaned and primed to suit concrete, screed or old tiles before any compound is poured.
A typical layer of compound is 2mm to 10mm thick, give or take, although some products allow more. Where a slab is cracked or broken, concrete floor repair comes first. Larger office floors can also be handled through our commercial screeding service.
Levelling Leatherhead homes before new floors
Homes from 1973 to 1999 make up 21% of Leatherhead's housing, and floors of that age and older have often been re-covered more than once. Lifting old carpet or vinyl often reveals a floor that is sound but not flat enough for what is going down next.
Rigid LVT, wide engineered boards and large porcelain tiles are unforgiving. Any dip or ridge shows as a gap, a rocking board or a lipped tile edge. A thin layer of compound, feathered out properly, gives the fitter a flat, smooth base and stops those faults appearing.
Joins between an extension and the original house are another common reason. The new floor is often a few millimetres off the old, and a compound brings both into one plane.
There is a limit. Pouring compound well beyond its stated depth to fix a sunken or failed floor can lead to cracking and debonding. Once the variation passes roughly 10mm, or the screed beneath has come loose, it makes more sense to lay new sand and cement screed. For homes and offices 6.9 miles away, see Kingston upon Thames floor levelling.
How we price floor levelling in Leatherhead
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 Leatherhead
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Leatherhead
Leatherhead is about 21.2 miles south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including KT22 and KT21. The nearest towns to it are Epsom (3.8 miles), Dorking (4.4 miles), Ewell (5.1 miles) and Reigate (6.8 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.
