Unit floors at Northfield Business Park and Station Road
Soham's trading estates include Northfield Business Park, where the East Cambridgeshire Local Plan allows an extension. Further employment land is allocated off Station Road, at the Eastern Gateway beside the A142 bypass, and on land either side of The Shade. The NIAB Eastern Agritech Innovation Hub operates at Hasse Fen.
New and refitted units on sites like these need level, hard wearing floors. An office fit-out or a new shop floor usually starts with an existing slab that is dusty, patched or uneven, and old adhesive or paint may need grinding off before anything new will bond.
Flatness under BS 8204 is a 2m straightedge test: SR1 lets through a 3mm gap at most, SR2 5mm, SR3 10mm. Vinyl shows up any hollow, so thin sheet finishes often insist on SR1.
Compound normally goes from a skim of about 2mm to roughly 10mm, and certain brands allow more. It flows to a smooth surface and dries quickly, so the fit-out can continue.
Some floors are beyond it. Pour compound thick into a hollow that really wants screeding and cracks or loss of bond can follow. If the slab is broken or badly out of level, we will price concrete floor repair or a new screed instead. Heavier industrial floors may need a higher strength screed, and larger fit-outs fall under commercial screeding.
Smoothing extension joins in Soham homes
In homes, a common reason to level is an extension. Semi-detached houses are 35% of Soham's homes, and a rear extension on a semi often leaves a step or a slope where the new floor meets the old one. A thin compound feathers that line out so LVT or tiles run straight through.
The council estates built from the 1950s, like Downfields, and the streets added from the late 1960s are typical places for extensions and knock-through kitchens. There, new and old floor levels must match, and compound closes the last few millimetres.
Priming comes before compound. Bare concrete, cement screed, calcium sulphate and old tiles all want their own primer, and picking wrong can see the compound lift. If the floor needs cleaning or repair first, our floor preparation service covers it.
This is not floor sanding and it is not a DIY bag of compound. It is a prepared base, measured to the flatness the new floor needs, and checked with a straightedge before the fitter arrives.
How we price floor levelling in Soham
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 Soham
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.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Soham
Soham is about 69.4 miles north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including CB7. The nearest towns to it are Ely (5.7 miles), Newmarket (6.7 miles), Cambridge (12.8 miles) and Chatteris (15.1 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.
