Kitchen and bathroom refits across Maidstone's older homes
A refit is usually when people find out what their floor is really made of. Strip the units out of an older Maidstone kitchen and the floor could be quarry tiles, a concrete slab with patched service trenches, or timber with a layer of hardboard on top. A thin new covering would show all of it.
Latex is how those mixed surfaces become one smooth base. Made from two parts, it bonds well to mixed surfaces and goes down only a few millimetres deep, so it barely changes the height at door thresholds or against the room next door.
Every base gets its own preparation. Timber is the strict one, because latex is never laid onto bare boards. The boards are fixed down and covered with flooring grade plywood, and the latex is laid on the plywood. Old quarry or ceramic tiles can stay if they are solidly bonded; loose ones are refixed, and the glaze is cleaned and primed. Uneven older concrete, and old adhesive that is still well stuck, usually take latex after priming. A calcium sulphate screed has its laitance removed and is always primed first.
Flats of all kinds make up 23% of Maidstone's homes, counting blocks and conversions together. Their kitchens and bathrooms often get sheet vinyl or LVT because it is easy to clean, and that is exactly where a smooth base shows its value. Where the adhesive is thick or a slab has ridges, diamond grinding in Maidstone takes it back to sound concrete before the latex goes on.
Latex or something else for Maidstone floors
Latex has a narrow job, and pricing it fairly means saying when it will not work.
It will not stop a bouncy floor. Boards that move underfoot crack a thin layer along their joints, so they are screwed down and overboarded, with any weak joists put right by a carpenter first.
It will not hold back damp. On an older solid floor with no working membrane, moisture rises through latex and lifts the covering. We test for damp before quoting; a wet slab is normally dug out and relaid, which our Maidstone sand and cement screed page covers.
It will not rescue a floor that is badly out of level. Laid thin, latex smooths small hollows, joints and tile grout lines. A floor that runs well downhill needs a deeper levelling product or a new screed, and our page on levelling Maidstone floors sets out how we decide between them.
Commercial finishes lean on latex too. Safety flooring in a staff kitchen or washroom, rubber in a gym and lino in an office all need a smooth, dry base, and their fitters inspect it before they start. We lay to that standard and leave the floor ready for them. For a property in Snodland, about 5 miles away, see latex screed in Snodland.
How we price latex screed in Maidstone
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 Maidstone
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.
Latex Screed from Slough to Maidstone
On the map, Maidstone sits east-south-east of Slough, about 53.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including ME14, ME16, ME17 and ME15), next to Snodland (5.2 miles), Gillingham (7.1 miles), Chatham (7.7 miles) and Rochester (8.1 miles).
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
