Refit floors in Sittingbourne semis and terraces
A post-war semi in Sittingbourne may have had two or three kitchens since it was built. Each one leaves something on the floor: ceramic tiles over the original screed, a layer of vinyl adhesive, a filled trench where a pipe was moved. When the next refit comes, the owner often wants LVT or sheet vinyl, and those finishes show every tile edge and ridge underneath.
Latex suits these layered floors. Firmly bonded ceramic or quarry tiles can stay where they are, cleaned and primed with a product made for glazed surfaces. Old adhesive that is hard and thin can remain once it has been scraped and primed, but soft or flaky residue comes off first. Concrete with cracks or small hollows is filled and primed. The latex then flows over the lot, burying grout lines and joints.
Bathrooms upstairs bring timber into it. Floorboards are never latexed directly. They are screwed tight, then overboarded with flooring grade plywood, and the latex goes over that, giving a smooth base for safety flooring or vinyl in a family bathroom.
Bands A to C hold 64% of Sittingbourne homes, so the typical refit is practical rather than lavish. That makes a thin, quick layer over the existing base appealing compared with ripping everything out, provided the base passes its checks. Where it turns out to be loose or crumbling, screed repairs come first.
When Sittingbourne floors need more than latex
Latex is a smoothing layer of a few millimetres, so it is only as good as the floor below it.
A floor that flexes will crack it. In a Sittingbourne bathroom, a bouncy floor means joists or boards need attention before any plywood goes down.
A damp floor will push moisture through it and into the flooring above. Older solid floors, laid before membranes were standard, are tested first; if the reading is high, the damp is dealt with before priming.
A floor that is well out of level needs more than latex can give. Where a rear extension meets the old house and leaves a step, or a whole room falls towards one corner, the answer is a deeper levelling compound or a screed. Our Sittingbourne floor levelling service explains flatness classes, and a new sand and cement screed is the fix when the base itself has failed.
Calcium sulphate bases need their laitance sanded off and a compatible primer before latex, or the bond will fail. Wherever the house is, from Kemsley and Milton Regis to Murston and Bapchild, these checks come before a price. We also lay latex screed in Faversham, about 7 miles away.
How we price latex screed in Sittingbourne
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 Sittingbourne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed 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).
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