Fit-outs at Ampress Park and Gordleton Industrial Estate
Ampress Park, on the town's northern edge, and Gordleton Industrial Estate, out in Upper Pennington, both have units where a fit-out lays new finishes on an old slab. A floor that was fine under warehouse racking or stacked goods can be well off flat once an office, showroom or production line wants vinyl sheet or LVT across it, and on a Lymington fit-out that usually only comes to light when the old use clears out.
Flatness is graded with a straightedge two metres long. Measured beneath it, the tightest class, SR1, tolerates 3mm, while SR2 and SR3 accept 5mm and 10mm respectively. Plenty of thin sheet finishes insist on SR1, and a slab poured for storage may fall short without help.
Self levelling compound puts that right. It typically goes on from about 2mm to around 10mm, some products deeper, and fast drying versions keep a fit-out to its programme. We clean and prime the base first, with a primer matched to what lies beneath: bare concrete, cement screed and calcium sulphate screed each take a different one, and a mismatched primer is the usual reason compound lifts.
A skim is not always enough. If a slab is cracked, worn or contaminated, grinding the concrete or repairing it comes before the compound. Where the unit needs a whole new wearing screed, our screeding for commercial buildings covers that.
Levelling old and new floors in Pennington homes
In houses, levelling usually follows an extension. Around Pennington and Buckland, in houses put up across the four decades after 1950, back walls come out for ground floor extensions and opened-up kitchens, and the new screed is brought up flush with the old slab. Even so, the old floor can have hollows or a slight fall, and one run of LVT or large tile laid over both will reveal it.
Compound skimmed across the whole area fixes that, making floors of two ages into one surface. It goes on once the new screed is dry and, if that screed is calcium sulphate, once the laitance has been sanded off.
It does have limits. Think of compound as a surface coat rather than anything structural. A floor that is hollow, breaking up or further out than compound can take needs a new screed, and deep pours used to dodge that can crack and debond. Old floors by the quay with no damp proof membrane need more than levelling: the Lymington page on sand and cement explains the dig-out. On solid ground needing just a whisker of build-up, a latex screed also does the job.
How we price floor levelling in Lymington
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 Lymington
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Lymington
Lymington is about 66.2 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO41. The nearest towns to it are New Milton (5 miles), Christchurch (10.6 miles), Totton (11.3 miles) and Southampton (11.8 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.