Smoothing mixed bases in Stotfold refits
Lift an old floor covering in a Stotfold kitchen or bathroom and the base underneath is rarely uniform. There may be ceramic tiles laid over an older floor, a patch of fresh concrete where a soil pipe was moved, plywood near the back door and thin black adhesive everywhere else. Sheet vinyl or LVT laid straight over that would show every line within weeks.
Latex screed brings those surfaces together. Two parts arrive on site, a bag of cement powder and a drum of latex, and they are blended together with no water added before being spread a few millimetres thick. Each base gets the primer that suits it first, so the compound bonds across tile, concrete and ply alike.
Preparation decides whether it lasts. Tiles must be firmly bonded, and any hollow ones are lifted and the gaps filled. Old adhesive can stay if it is thin, hard and well stuck, but soft or thick residue is ground off first by our team, as our concrete floor grinding page for Stotfold describes. Timber is overboarded with flooring grade plywood before any latex goes on, since bare boards move too much.
Newer houses can need it too. If a downstairs room is refitted with LVT and the floor turns out to be calcium sulphate screed, the laitance is sanded off and a compatible primer applied before latex. Our anhydrite flow screed page explains that material.
Damp and movement in older Stotfold floors
In the historic streets around St Mary's Church and Mill Lane, ground floors commonly predate damp proof membranes. That matters because latex does nothing to stop moisture. Laid over a damp slab, it and the vinyl on top can lift or stain. So we take a hygrometer reading first, and a floor that is too wet is rebuilt with insulation, membrane and screed, as covered on our Stotfold sand and cement screed page, before latex is considered.
Movement is the second limit. A timber floor that bounces when you walk across it needs its boards or joists fixed. Latex is a surface layer and will crack over a floor that flexes.
The third limit is level. Latex fills small hollows and joints, but a floor that is badly out of level needs more depth than it can give, which our floor levelling page covers.
Flats make up 12% of Stotfold's homes, and in a flat the floor cannot rise far at doors and thresholds. A few millimetres of latex over sound ply or screed usually leaves room for the new finish. Church End and Fairfield are covered as well as the rest of the town.
How we price latex screed in Stotfold
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 Stotfold
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 Stotfold
Stotfold is about 37.9 miles north-north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SG5 and SG15. The nearest towns to it are Baldock (2.6 miles), Letchworth (2.7 miles), Hitchin (5 miles) and Biggleswade (5.1 miles).
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
