Shop and office fit outs around Clapham Junction
Wandsworth's main commercial settings are Battersea Power Station, with its shopping, leisure and office space, the offices and shops of Nine Elms, New Covent Garden Market and the retail around Clapham Junction. When a unit changes tenant, the new fit out usually inherits an old floor with adhesive, patches and changes in level. Trenches cut for moved services are filled at a different height, and old tile beds leave ridges that show straight through new vinyl.
The first step is getting back to a clean, sound base. Old adhesive, paint and weak surface material come off, often by concrete floor grinding. A primer goes on next, and it has to match the base: concrete, sand and cement and calcium sulphate all take different ones.
The finish sets the target. For LVT and most thin sheet finishes the shop floor needs SR1, where the gaps under a 2m straightedge stay within 3mm. SR2 allows 5mm, which some other finishes accept; the flooring sheet says which class applies. Fast drying compounds allow the flooring contractor to start soon afterwards, which matters when a shop is due to open. Sections can be poured in sequence so part of a unit stays usable while the rest is levelled.
If a Clapham Junction shop or Nine Elms office needs a full screed, not just compound, that bigger job sits with our commercial screed team.
Conversions and extensions in Wandsworth houses
In homes, levelling is mostly about joins and conversions. A rear extension in Balham or Earlsfield is screeded new, while the original floor it meets is older and often a few millimetres out. Compound feathers the two into one plane so a single floor can run through.
Conversions raise the same issue on upper floors, where a new acoustic floor meets existing surfaces. Compound can bring the finished level into line once the screed below is sound. The same applies where a wall has been removed and two rooms with slightly different floor heights become one, which is common when a flat is reconfigured.
There is a limit. Typical compounds are designed for 2mm to 10mm or so. Pour it any deeper into a dip, or over a floor that is cracked or hollow, and it is liable to split and let go. In that case the floor needs rescreeding, and our sand and cement rescreeding page explains how to tell. If the floor only wants a skim, latex smoothing screed could do it. Either way we measure first with a straightedge, so the quote describes the floor you actually have.
How we price floor levelling in Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
On the map, Wandsworth sits east-south-east of Slough, about 20.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SW12, SW11, SW4 and SW18), next to Merton (2.8 miles), Lambeth (2.9 miles), Hammersmith and Fulham (3.7 miles) and Kensington and Chelsea (3.8 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.
