Awkward bases under Redhill kitchens and bathrooms
The name puts people off, but the material is simple. It comes in two parts, a powder and a latex liquid, and the liquid is what you mix the powder with, so no water goes in. The latex helps the layer hold onto awkward bases. It is spread thin, usually a few millimetres, and its job is to turn a sound but rough surface into one that thin flooring will not telegraph.
That makes it the usual answer when a refit lifts the old floor covering and finds something nobody planned for. In a Redhill flat it might be ceramic tiles from an earlier kitchen, still bonded hard to the slab, with grout lines that would print straight through new vinyl. In an older house it might be patched concrete with ridges where a wall once stood, or a film of firm old adhesive that would take a day of scraping to remove.
Timber is a separate case. Bare floorboards move with the seasons and with every footstep, and a rigid layer on top of them will crack. The boards must first be overboarded with flooring grade plywood, screwed down at close centres, and the latex then goes over the plywood. Once the plywood is down, the latex also hides the joins between its sheets and the screw heads in them, which would otherwise show through sheet vinyl or lino.
Before any of it, we check that the base is firm, clean and free of damp, and choose a primer to suit it. Where the dips are wider and deeper than a thin layer can sensibly fill, our floor levelling service in Redhill explains the thicker compound route, and the floor preparation page covers stripping a base back first.
When latex is not enough in Earlswood or Merstham
Latex screed hides small faults; it does not mend larger ones. Three problems stop it working, whether the floor is in Earlswood, Merstham, Whitebushes or the town centre.
Damp is the first. If moisture is rising through an old solid floor, a few millimetres of compound will not hold it back, and the new vinyl will lift or stain. The cause has to be dealt with, which in an older Redhill house usually means a new membrane and a rebuilt floor, covered on our sand and cement screed page.
Movement is the second. Boards that bounce or creak need fixing down and overboarding properly; latex over a springy floor will break up within months.
Level is the third. A floor that falls badly from one wall to another, or has sunk in the middle, needs a screed repair or a new screed before any thin layer goes on.
Calcium sulphate screed brings a different check. Where the existing floor is made of it, the laitance on its surface must be sanded off and the base primed with a compatible product, otherwise the latex will be bonded to a weak skin. If we find any of these issues when we look at the floor, the written price says so and sets out the work needed first.
How we price latex screed in Redhill
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 Redhill
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 Redhill
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 28.7 miles from Redhill, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include RH1, and Reigate (1.5 miles), Horley (4.8 miles), Caterham (4.9 miles) and Dorking (6.9 miles) are close by.
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
