Refitting commercial units in Wantage and Grove
Wantage and its northern neighbour Grove have a mix of commercial premises. Grove Technology Park is in the village just north of the town, Williams Racing has been at Grove since 1996, and the Sainsbury's development in Wantage began in 2006. Engineering workshops, showrooms and retail units all rely on floors that are flat and hard-wearing, and each refit is a chance for an uneven floor to show.
Pull up an old floor covering in one of these units and what lies beneath is seldom fit for a new finish. Adhesive residue, patched holes and dips from old fittings all need dealing with. Contaminated or weak surfaces are cleaned back by floor preparation such as shot blasting or grinding, and then the right primer goes on. Cement screed, calcium sulphate screed and bare old concrete all take different primers, and using the wrong one often explains why compound comes loose.
Under BS 8204 a 2m straightedge is laid on the floor, and SR1 tolerates a gap of 3mm at most, SR2 5mm and SR3 10mm. Many thin sheet finishes demand SR1, and showroom tiles and LVT need close to it. A self levelling compound, poured and spread over the primed base, is usually the fastest way to get there, and fast drying products let a unit reopen sooner.
Where the problem is deeper than a surface fault, concrete floor repair may be needed before any levelling.
Levelling older Wantage floors and extension joins
Homes need levelling for different reasons. The most common domestic case is the join between a house and its extension, where two floors laid years apart meet with a slight step or slope. Run LVT or big tiles straight through the opening and that step will show. A thin compound feathered across both floors removes it.
Then there are older solid floors. A sound floor in a 1970s or 1980s house may never have been laid to the flatness that modern LVT or large tiles need, and 22% of Wantage homes date from 1973 to 1999. Compound brings a floor like that to a flat, smooth finish without the cost of a new screed.
Compound has limits, though. Most products are made for fills of roughly 2mm to 10mm, and a few for more. A floor that needs much more than that is not a levelling job, because thick pours of compound can crack and debond. At that point a new liquid screed or a hand-laid one is the honest answer. For thin smoothing layers in homes, see also latex screed.
How we price floor levelling in Wantage
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 Wantage
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Floor Levelling from Slough to Wantage
Wantage is about 33.9 miles west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including OX12. The nearest towns to it are Didcot (8 miles), Abingdon-on-Thames (8.4 miles), Oxford (13.4 miles) and Newbury (13.7 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.
