Levelling uneven floors at The Maltings and Allen House
Allen House Business Centre sits within The Maltings on Station Road, a listed former malting complex now given over to offices, studios and units. Refit a unit or studio in an old building like that and the floor rarely comes up flat. Expect patches, old adhesive, steps in level between rooms and joints that have shifted.
Compound goes onto a primed base and flows out smooth, usually about 2mm to 10mm thick, with some products going deeper. Old concrete in a malting needs a different primer from a sand and cement screed or an anhydrite one, so we identify the base first. A weak or contaminated surface is prepared first under our floor preparation and shot blasting service.
Listed buildings raise one more question. Some original floors may need protecting instead of covering, so find out what consent allows before planning the work. If a sound floor only wants a thin smoothing coat, our latex screed service is another route.
Quick setting products mean the carpet tiles or LVT for a Maltings studio can usually go down shortly afterwards. Before starting, we agree access and working hours with the building manager, letting the rest of the fit-out be sequenced around drying. When you ask for a price, tell us the planned flooring and how flat it must be, because that sets how much compound is needed and which product we use.
Sawbridgeworth homes: extension joins and flatness classes
Some 27% of Sawbridgeworth homes went up between 1973 and 1999. When a house of that age or older gets a kitchen extension, the new floor seldom ends up exactly level with the old one. Skimming compound across the join lets the flooring carry on through with no step or lip.
Thin finishes ask the most of a floor. Every ripple shows through LVT and sheet vinyl, which is why their makers often ask for SR1, a gap of 3mm at most beneath a 2m straightedge. SR2 allows 5mm. A straightedge check before we quote makes sure the right amount of compound is priced. Engineered wood and large tiles need a flat base as well, so the same check comes first for them. If the extension was poured in anhydrite, its laitance gets sanded back and a matching primer goes on before any compound.
Compound cannot fix everything. Poured deep over a floor that has sunk, cracked through or turned damp, it can crack and debond. A floor like that needs new screed, such as a hand-laid replacement screed. Just up the road, we also offer floor levelling in Bishop's Stortford.
How we price floor levelling in Sawbridgeworth
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 Sawbridgeworth
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Sawbridgeworth
On the map, Sawbridgeworth sits east-north-east of Slough, about 39.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM21), next to Harlow (3.8 miles), Bishop's Stortford (4.1 miles), Hoddesdon (7.9 miles) and Ware (8 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.