Retail and office refits at The Heart of Walton
A shop fit-out or office refit nearly always reveals an uneven floor. Old tiles or carpet come up and leave adhesive, patched areas and changes in level where partitions used to stand. Under BS 8204, a 2m straightedge laid on the floor should show no gap over 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 or 10mm for SR3. Thin sheet finishes and LVT often ask for SR1.
On a Walton shop or office floor, we go about it in three steps. Old adhesive and weak surfaces are removed, often by grinding, and our floor preparation and shot blasting covers that. Next comes priming, and concrete, calcium sulphate or sand and cement each get a different product. Last, the compound goes on, normally somewhere around 2mm thick and seldom past 10mm.
Fast drying compounds keep the programme short, which matters in a mall unit where the shopfitter and the opening date are already booked. Areas can be done in zones, so one part of a unit is handed back while the next is prepared.
Units at Hersham Place Business Park and Hersham Green Technology Park face the same steps, whether carpet tiles or a raised floor goes on top. Industrial units at Hersham Trading Estate are more likely to need concrete floor repair before any levelling, because compound cannot bridge cracks or hollow areas in the slab.
Levelling Walton-on-Thames flats and extension joins
In a flat being refitted, the screed underneath may be sound but wavy, or patched where pipes were moved. Terraced homes make up 17% of the town and flats a large share besides, and in both a few millimetres of compound is often all that stands between an old floor and new LVT.
Extensions bring a different problem. Where a new floor meets the original house, a small lip or dip at the join will show through engineered wood or large tiles. Feathering compound across the line gives one continuous surface. Some 22% of homes in Walton-on-Thames date from 1973 to 1999, and their extensions face the same join as older houses.
Compound has a limit. Pour it deep to save a floor that ought to come out and the compound tends to crack and come unstuck. So if a Walton floor is out by over about 10mm, or the screed below has come loose, we advise a new screed and explain our reasons. Thin repairs of a few millimetres can use latex screed. Across the borough line, levelling work in Kingston upon Thames has its own page.
How we price floor levelling in Walton-on-Thames
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 Walton-on-Thames
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 Walton-on-Thames
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 14.1 miles from Walton-on-Thames, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include KT12, TW17 and KT10, and Weybridge (2 miles), Sunbury-on-Thames (2.3 miles), Addlestone (3.4 miles) and Chertsey (3.7 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.
