Cafe, restaurant and shop refits in Richmond and Twickenham
The town centres of Richmond and Twickenham, with their cafes and restaurants, are the borough's main commercial settings alongside Twickenham Stadium and the Stag Brewery site. When a unit changes hands, the floor is usually stripped to a patchwork: old adhesive, filled trenches, the outline of a removed counter and screed repaired at different times. A new finish will show every mark unless the floor is brought flat. Old food premises can also have grease in the surface, which must be removed before anything will bond.
Self levelling compound does that. On a cafe or shop floor it normally goes down between 2mm and 10mm thick and runs out into a smooth, even layer. Fast drying products let the flooring follow quickly, which matters when a restaurant or shop has a fixed opening date and a fit out team waiting. Kitchens and bars in food premises may need a finish that copes with water, so the compound and the finish have to be chosen together.
Sheet vinyl usually calls for SR1, where a 2m straightedge shows no gap over 3mm; SR2 lets that rise to 5mm. Each base needs its own primer, whether it is concrete, a cement screed, anhydrite or old tiles, and the wrong one can let the compound come away. Where the surface is painted or contaminated, floor preparation and shot blasting comes first. A thin smoothing coat can also be laid as a latex screed.
Flat bases for stone and timber in Richmond upon Thames
Homes in the borough built between 1973 and 1999 make up 13% of the stock, and floors of any age can be sound but uneven. Across the borough, from East Sheen and Ham to Petersham and Teddington, large format stone and engineered timber need a flat base, or tiles lip and boards rock. Click LVT is less forgiving still, since joints open wherever the floor dips.
A common case is the join between an inter-war semi and its large rear extension. Floors put down decades apart seldom finish at quite the same height, and feathering compound over the line between them turns two surfaces into one. The same approach suits a floor where a wall has come out between two rooms laid at different times.
Compound has limits. If a floor dips by more than roughly 10mm, or is cracked and starting to break up, a thick pour of compound is likely to crack and come away, so it needs a fresh screed. We will tell you that at pricing and quote for a new hand laid floor or a pumped liquid one. This service covers screeds and slabs, not sanding timber floorboards.
How we price floor levelling in Richmond upon Thames
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 Richmond upon Thames
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames is about 15.6 miles east-south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SW13, SW14, TW10 and TW12. The nearest towns to it are Hounslow (2.5 miles), Kingston upon Thames (4 miles), Ealing (4.9 miles) and Sunbury-on-Thames (5 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.