Levelling floors at Wickford Business Park units
Wickford Business Park, east of the town centre, includes the Hurricane Way estate, Sopwith Crescent and Heron Industrial Estate. Its units are a mix of warehouse and light industrial space, some with mezzanines, and when one is refitted as a showroom, trade counter or office, the floor usually needs attention before new finishes go down.
A concrete floor that has carried racking and forklifts for years may be sound but uneven, with worn patches and old fixings. If the base is solid, a self levelling compound can bring it to the flatness a new finish needs. We judge it the BS 8204 way, laying a 2m straightedge on the floor and measuring the biggest gap. Up to 3mm is SR1, up to 5mm SR2, up to 10mm SR3. A showroom getting vinyl or another thin sheet will usually need SR1.
Preparation comes first. Old adhesive, paint and contamination have to be removed so the compound bonds, and cracks or broken areas repaired. Our concrete floor repair and concrete floor grinding services deal with that stage. Each base then gets the correct primer, since concrete, screed and old tiles all need different ones.
Most compound goes down somewhere between about 2mm and 10mm thick, and the fast drying versions mean a Sopwith Crescent or Heron Industrial Estate fit-out does not sit waiting. Where a tenant needs a new hard-wearing screed rather than a skim, that is a different job, and we will say so.
Joining old and new floors in Wickford houses
In housing, levelling usually solves a join. Nearly all of Wickford's homes are post-war, and many of its 1960s to 1990s houses are having extensions and open plan kitchens added. When the new floor meets the original one, there is often a small step, a slope or a ridge where the two slabs do not line up. Put LVT or big porcelain tiles over that and the line shows straight through.
A levelling compound laid across both floors, after priming each base, brings the whole room to one plane. It also covers small dips in an older screed that would otherwise telegraph through a thin finish.
Compound has limits. Where the floor dips by over 10mm or so, or has cracks, loose patches or damp, a thick pour of compound to hide it tends to crack and come unstuck. In that case the honest answer is a new screed, such as liquid screed in Wickford, with levelling as a final skim if needed. Where a floor is only slightly out and needs just a few millimetres, a latex screed is another option.
Sanding timber boards is not something we offer, and nor is selling levelling products for DIY use.
How we price floor levelling in Wickford
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 Wickford
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 Wickford
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 50.5 miles from Wickford, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include SS12 and SS11, and Rayleigh (4.1 miles), Basildon (4.2 miles), Billericay (4.5 miles) and South Woodham Ferrers (4.9 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.
