Awkward bases in older Rugby kitchens and bathrooms
Lift the old covering in an older Rugby house and the floor often records every refit before it. Quarry tiles by the back door, ceramic tiles in the old bathroom, a cement patch where a chimney breast was taken out, and a thin film of old adhesive across the rest. Bringing all of that to one smooth surface is what latex screed is for.
The material comes in two parts: a cement based powder and a latex liquid that is used in place of water. The latex helps the cured layer grip hard and tolerate slight movement, so it holds on bases where a standard compound might let go. It goes down thin, typically a few millimetres, enough to bury grout lines and board joints without raising the floor so far that doors need trimming.
Each base comes with conditions. Old tiles must be stuck fast, with hollow ones taken out and the gaps filled, and glazed faces cleaned of grease and polish. Old adhesive has to be thin and firmly bonded; anything soft or flaky is scraped or ground off. Concrete needs to be clean, sound and free of dust. Timber is overboarded with flooring grade plywood, screwed at close centres, and the latex is laid over the plywood, never onto bare boards.
Every surface is then primed with the product its material calls for. A calcium sulphate screed must have its laitance sanded away and be primed before latex goes on. Where tiles or adhesive must come up altogether, the stripping and cleaning form part of our floor preparation work.
When a Rugby floor needs more than latex
Latex is a finishing layer, so it can only be as good as the floor beneath it. Three conditions stop the job until they are put right.
A springy timber floor is the first. Overboarding stiffens the surface but does not cure loose joists, so a bouncing floor is fixed at the structure before plywood and latex go down. Damp is the second. Latex does not hold back moisture, and old solid floors laid without a membrane can draw water up from the ground. We take a reading before mixing; if it is high, the floor may need a membrane and new screed instead of a skim.
The third is level. A floor that falls away towards one wall, or has dropped at the edges, needs more build-up than a few millimetres of latex can give. The right answer there is a deeper levelling product or a new screed, and levelling uneven Rugby floors sets out the flatness classes and where compound stops being sensible. If a lip of hard concrete or a ridge of old glue stands proud, grinding the concrete back gives the latex an even start. Lutterworth has a separate page, latex screed in Lutterworth, for floors about 6 miles from Rugby.
How we price latex screed in Rugby
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 Rugby
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 Rugby
On the map, Rugby sits north-north-west of Slough, about 63.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CV21 and CV22), next to Lutterworth (6.3 miles), Daventry (9 miles), Coventry (10.6 miles) and Bedworth (11.5 miles).
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
