Levelling floors off Brook Street before new flooring
Thin, rigid floor coverings show every dip beneath them. LVT telegraphs ridges, large porcelain tiles rock on a hump, and engineered boards creak over a hollow. The fix is a smooth, flat base, and on most sound, dry floors in the town that means a self levelling compound rather than a new screed.
To judge a floor we lay a 2m straightedge on it and read the gaps against BS 8204: no more than 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 and 10mm for SR3. SR1 is the class many thin sheet finishes demand, so a floor that seems perfectly fine to walk on may still need work before sheet vinyl or LVT goes down.
Most compound goes on somewhere between 2mm and about 10mm thick, though certain products can be laid thicker. Before it goes down, the base is cleaned, any weak or loose areas are dealt with, and a primer matched to the surface is applied. A concrete slab, a sand and cement screed, a calcium sulphate floor and a layer of old tile glue all take different primers, and compound that comes away has usually been put over the wrong one.
On the estates off Brook Street, levelling often travels with patch work. Cracks, hollow spots and broken edges are cut out and filled through our screed repair service first, then the whole floor is levelled in one pass. If the floor is only a few millimetres out, a skim of latex levelling screed may do the job.
Office, print works and unit refits in Tonbridge
Levelling is not only a domestic job. Light engineering, printing, distribution and financial services all have a place in the Tonbridge economy, and each tenant change in an office, workshop or print works tends to bring a new floor finish. Carpet tiles and vinyl in an office need a flat base; a workshop floor may need a harder surface.
Old unit floors often carry adhesive, paint or coatings that stop compound bonding. These are removed first, usually by concrete floor grinding, which also opens up the surface for the primer.
Compound cannot save every floor. Poured thick to patch over a base that is due for replacement, it can crack and part company with the floor, and a soft or damp base makes that more likely. If a floor is out by more than a compound can take, or is breaking up, the honest advice is to relay it. For units that need a new wearing floor, see our commercial screeding service.
At home the same judgement applies. Where a Trench Wood or Cage Green extension meets the original house, a small step between old and new floors can usually be feathered out with compound so the new flooring runs straight through.
How we price floor levelling in Tonbridge
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 Tonbridge
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 Tonbridge
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 46.1 miles from Tonbridge, which lies to the east-south-east. Postcodes here include TN9 and TN10, and Royal Tunbridge Wells (4.1 miles), Sevenoaks (6.4 miles), Crowborough (10.3 miles) and Snodland (12 miles) are close by.
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.
