Refits at Kent Science Park and Milton Creek
Business floors need levelling for different reasons. A laboratory at Kent Science Park may be getting a new sheet vinyl or resilient floor where flatness is critical. A warehouse or industrial unit near Milton Creek, Kemsley or the dock at Ridham may be split into offices or trade counters, leaving an old slab with coatings, saw cuts and height changes that a thin finish would show.
Flatness has a measured standard. Under BS 8204, a 2m straightedge is laid on the floor and the gap beneath it sets the class, from SR3 at up to 10mm through SR2 at 5mm to SR1 at 3mm, which is what many thin sheet finishes for a lab floor demand. We survey the floor, remove coatings or contamination, prime for the base type, and pour compound to the class the flooring needs.
Preparation often decides the outcome. An old industrial slab may need concrete floor grinding to take off paint or sealer, or concrete floor repair to fill cracks and damaged joints before compound goes on. Most compound is laid between about 2mm and 10mm deep, though certain products allow a thicker pour.
None of our work on these sites is resin, polished concrete or structural power floated slabs; those are not things we lay. Where a unit needs a new wearing screed rather than a levelling layer, our commercial screeding team can price it. On a working site, tell us about opening hours, deliveries and any areas that must stay in use, so the levelling can be phased around them.
Old and new floors meeting in Sittingbourne homes
In a house, the typical levelling job is the join. A rear extension's new floor is laid at a planned height, but the original floor it meets may have settled or been patched over the years. When the wall between them comes out, a ridge or dip appears across the new open room. Levelling compound across both sides brings them into one plane for LVT or engineered wood.
Of the town's homes, 21% date from the years 1973 to 1999. Floors of that age may be sound but not flat enough for modern thin finishes, especially after old tiles or carpet gripper come up. A skim of compound over the right primer usually fixes that. If only a very thin layer is needed, latex screed is an option.
Compound has limits. Deep fills are not its job, and a thick pour over a floor that really needs rescreeding may crack and come away. When a Sittingbourne floor is beyond what compound can correct, or sounds hollow and is breaking up, we tell you and recommend a fresh sand and cement floor in its place.
How we price floor levelling in Sittingbourne
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 Sittingbourne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is about 61.1 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including ME10 and ME9. The nearest towns to it are Faversham (7 miles), Gillingham (7.1 miles), Chatham (9.6 miles) and Maidstone (10.4 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.
