Refitting kitchens and bathrooms in Witham houses
Latex screed is what the trade calls a levelling compound that comes in two parts. The powder is cement based, and the latex liquid is used to mix it in place of plain water, and the latex gives the cured layer a little flexibility and a stronger grip on difficult surfaces. It goes down thin, usually a few millimetres, and its job is to put a smooth face on a base that is already sound.
That makes it a natural partner for refits, and kitchens and bathrooms are the rooms most likely to have been refitted before. Lift an old vinyl and the floor below can be a mixture of things: ceramic tiles from a previous kitchen, traces of adhesive, a patch of filler where a pipe was rerouted.
Where those old tiles are still bonded hard to the floor, there is no need to chip them all out. We clean and degrease them, prime with a product made for dense, non-porous surfaces, and spread the latex across them so the grout lines and chipped edges vanish under the new finish. Thin adhesive residue that is hard and firmly attached can stay; anything soft or flaking is scraped back first.
Upstairs bathrooms in most houses sit on timber joists. Latex can work there too, but never straight onto bare floorboards. The boards are first overlaid with flooring grade plywood, screwed down at close centres, and the latex goes over the primed ply. The same service is set out for homes in latex screed in Chelmsford.
When latex is the wrong fix in Witham
Latex smooths a floor. It does not repair one, and three problems send the job somewhere else first.
Damp comes first. Older cottages in Witham are more likely than other homes to need a membrane, and a thin compound laid over a floor with moisture coming through it will lose its bond and spoil the finish above. We test before anything is mixed, and a damp floor gets a membrane or a new build-up before latex is even discussed.
Movement is next. Boards that bounce underfoot will crack any compound, latex included, however flexible the mix. They need screwing down, replacing or overboarding beforehand.
Level is the third. If a kitchen floor falls away by a large amount across the room, a few millimetres of latex cannot correct it. The high spots come down, a screed goes in, and latex only finishes the surface. Our page on compound and flatness classes in Witham covers that general side, while screed repairs deals with broken or hollow patches.
Priming closes the list. Ply, tiles and concrete each take a different primer, and a calcium sulphate screed is always sanded free of its laitance and primed with a product suited to calcium sulphate before latex touches it.
How we price latex screed in Witham
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 Witham
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.
Latex Screed from Slough to Witham
On the map, Witham sits east-north-east of Slough, about 58.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM8), next to Maldon (5 miles), Braintree (6.6 miles), Chelmsford (8.4 miles) and Halstead (10 miles).
More on latex screed, part of our screeding services.
