Office fit-outs around Leicester Waterside and Space City
The plans for Waterside and neighbouring Space City centre on offices, research space and high tech manufacturing. Space like that gets fitted out and then refitted as tenants change, and each time the floor under the carpet tile, vinyl or raised access flooring has to be right. A floor that was acceptable for one occupier's carpet may be too rough for the next occupier's sheet vinyl, and that usually only shows once the old covering comes up.
A levelling job in an office starts with the existing surface. Old adhesive, paint and failed tiles are removed, and a dusty or weak concrete is opened up mechanically so the primer can bond. Our concrete grinding service covers that preparation.
What we aim for is a flatness class to BS 8204, checked with a 2m straightedge: 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 and 10mm for SR3. Thin sheet finishes often call for SR1, so a floor that carpet sat on happily can still need levelling before vinyl goes down.
Compound normally goes on between about 2mm and around 10mm thick, and some products can be laid deeper. Fast drying compounds let joiners and electricians return quickly, and we agree the sequence with the fit-out team beforehand.
Frog Island and the industrial areas of Beaumont Leys raise a different question. Heavy duty floors there often need repair or a new screed, not compound, and our screed repairs service is the starting point for damaged or breaking floors.
Old floors and extension joins in Leicester homes
Most homes need levelling for one of two reasons. Either the old floor was never very flat, or two floors of different ages meet.
In the city's pre-1919 houses, original solid floors often have dips and humps that carpet hid for decades. A thin skim of compound gets the surface into line before LVT or big format tiles are laid. We choose the primer to match the base, since cement screed, concrete, calcium sulphate screed and old tiles each take a different one.
Post-war semis in and around Braunstone with a kitchen extension usually have a line where the original floor meets the new one, and the two are rarely quite the same height. Compound can feather that difference across the room so the new flooring runs through without a ridge.
There is a limit. Compound is no cure for a floor that is cracked, loose or well out of level, and pouring it thick to cover the fault can end in cracking and debonding. In that case a new sand and cement floor is the better repair, and we will say so rather than sell a product that will fail.
How we price floor levelling in Leicester
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 Leicester
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.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Leicester
On the map, Leicester sits north-north-west of Slough, about 78.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including LE1, LE2, LE3 and LE7), next to Earl Shilton (8.7 miles), Hinckley (12 miles), Lutterworth (12.7 miles) and Market Harborough (13.9 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.
