Shop and office refits from Stratford to Beckton
A refit usually starts with a stripped floor: old adhesive, patched screed, the outline of a removed counter and a few service trenches filled at different heights. New sheet vinyl, LVT or carpet tiles will show every one of those marks unless the floor is brought flat first.
Levelling compound does that job. In a unit like this it normally goes on somewhere between 2mm and 10mm thick, poured or pumped, then helped across the floor until it settles flat. Sheet vinyl and other thin finishes tend to need SR1: a 2m straightedge laid on the floor should show a gap of 3mm at most. Tiles and carpet are usually fine on SR2, which allows up to 5mm.
The primer is just as important. A concrete slab, a sand and cement screed, a calcium sulphate floor and a layer of old tiles each take a different one, and the wrong choice can leave the compound coming away. Fast drying products are available to keep a shop or office programme moving, and where the existing surface is contaminated it may need floor preparation and shot blasting first.
Commercial floors around Westfield Stratford City, ExCeL London and London City Airport, and in Beckton, a commercial hub since the DLR arrived in 1994, all call for this kind of work. In each case the floor has to be level, primed and dry on the day the shopfitters or flooring team arrive. For a thin smoothing coat under a new finish, see our latex screed service.
Levelling floors in older Newham homes
Homes need levelling too. In Newham, 14% of homes were built between 1945 and 1972, and floors of that age, like those in the borough's older terraces, are rarely flat enough for modern finishes. Large format tiles and click LVT both need a flat base, or they rock, crack or open at the joints.
Behind a terraced house, trouble often shows where the original floor runs into a newer extension. Floors put down decades apart rarely finish at quite the same height, and a coat of compound feathered out over the join turns them into one flat surface. The same applies where a wall has been removed between two rooms and the floors either side were laid at different times.
Compound has limits. When a floor dips by more than roughly 10mm, has cracks running through it or is starting to crumble, pouring compound thick enough to hide it tends to crack and lose its grip. The honest answer then is a new screed, either sand and cement screed for older floors or pumped liquid, and we will say so when we price. This service covers screeds and slabs only, not wooden floor sanding.
How we price floor levelling in Newham
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 Newham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Newham
Newham is about 29.3 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including E6, E16, E7 and E12. The nearest towns to it are Tower Hamlets (3.2 miles), Greenwich (3.7 miles), Barking and Dagenham (4 miles) and Redbridge (4.1 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.