Levelling units on Calmore Industrial Estate and Brunel Road
On the north side of town, Calmore Industrial Estate lies close to where Brunel Road meets the A36 Salisbury Road, about 1.6 miles from junction 2 of the M27. South Hampshire Industrial Park is part of it, and Royal Mail, DHL and Howdens are among the occupiers. Its steel portal frame units are the kind of buildings that end up needing floor repairs and new screeds. Convert a section of one into offices, a showroom or a trade counter and the slab will usually need levelling before carpet tiles or vinyl go down.
BS 8204 sets out how flat is flat. The test uses a 2m straightedge, and the gap beneath it can reach 3mm under SR1, 5mm under SR2 and 10mm under SR3, no more. Plenty of thin sheet finishes ask for SR1, which means a slab that is fine as a warehouse floor can be well short of what an office needs. Our first step is to measure, so you know which class the floor meets today.
For a unit refit, compound normally goes down somewhere in the roughly 2mm to 10mm band, and particular products can be built up further. The base is cleaned first and given a primer that suits it. Warehouse floors tend to carry old coatings, oil or dust, and grinding the concrete back is normally how we reach a sound surface.
Shops in the town centre raise the same issues in miniature. After several fit-outs a floor can be left with old adhesive, patch repairs and small changes in level, and each has to be sorted before new flooring.
When a Totton floor needs a screed, not compound
Compound has limits. Ask it to make up a sunken or broken-up floor and a thick layer will probably crack and lift away from what is underneath. When a floor sounds hollow, is crumbling, or is further out than compound can cope with, a new screed is the straight answer, and laying sand and cement by hand is covered on its own page.
Houses need levelling as well as commercial units. Terraces account for 24% of Totton's homes, and the older ones may need their floors flattened before new coverings go down. The line where a newer extension joins the house often carries a slight step or slope, too, and a thin coat over the whole floor takes it out so the new finish runs through without a visible join.
For tiny areas, or where only a few millimetres are needed, latex compounds are often the choice. Quick setting products help a refit stay on schedule, and the manufacturer's data sheet says when the floor layer can start. Prices for levelling a floor in Lymington and nearby towns are worked out the same way.
How we price floor levelling in Totton
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 Totton
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Totton
Totton is about 56 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO40. The nearest towns to it are Southampton (3.8 miles), Romsey (4.9 miles), Eastleigh (6.9 miles) and Hedge End (8.1 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.
