Latex in older shops and pubs around the Cornmarket
When a pub kitchen, shop or cafe in the centre of Wimborne Minster is stripped out, the floor has usually been covered several times over. You may find firmly stuck quarry or ceramic tiles, a concrete base with repairs of different ages, or a film of old adhesive under the last vinyl. A commercial kitchen or customer toilet may also call for safety flooring, and that sheet material shows every ridge beneath it.
Latex screed suits this kind of mixed base. The latex liquid gives the compound grip and a degree of flexibility, so once the surface is cleaned and primed it can bridge grout lines, small steps and the joins between old patches in a single thin coat. Tiles must be bonded solidly; we sound them out and lift any that ring hollow. Old adhesive can stay only if it is thin and hard, and soft residue comes off first.
Within the conservation controls covering the Cornmarket and High Street, some older shops may also hide stone or early solid floors. Those call for careful, often lime friendly repair, and we would not put a cement based latex coat over one without first agreeing the repair approach for that building. If an early solid floor is failing, our Wimborne Minster sand and cement page covers relaying it, and broken patches of existing screed are handled by our screed repairs service.
Timber floors and tiled kitchens across Wimborne Minster
Away from the centre, latex is mostly a kitchen and bathroom refit product. Terraced houses make up 16% of Wimborne Minster's homes, and 6% of all homes date from between the wars. Where any house has a timber floor, the same rule applies. Latex is never laid straight onto floorboards, because boards flex and the thin compound would crack along every edge. The boards are fixed down, overboarded with flooring grade plywood screwed at close centres, and the latex is spread over the plywood to hide joints and fixings.
Firmly bonded ceramic tiles in an older kitchen can be latexed over after cleaning and priming, which saves breaking them out. Uneven older concrete can be smoothed the same way, as long as the variation is small.
Some floors need more than a thin coat. Latex does not cure damp, does not stiffen springy boards and cannot correct a floor that is badly out of level. Those faults are fixed first, by repair, overboarding or a new screed. On newer floors laid in calcium sulphate screed, the laitance must be sanded off and the surface primed before latex. We cover the whole area, from Merley and Pilford to East End and St Johns, and the same work is available in Ferndown.
How we price latex screed in Wimborne Minster
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your latex screed in Wimborne Minster
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Latex Screed from Slough to Wimborne Minster
On the map, Wimborne Minster sits south-west of Slough, about 77.2 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BH21), next to Ferndown (4.3 miles), Bournemouth (7.3 miles), Verwood (7.4 miles) and Ringwood (9.2 miles).
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