Joining old and new floors in Yateley homes
However carefully an extension is built, its floor seldom ends up at precisely the height of the house. The old floor may have dropped a little, the new screed may be a few millimetres out, or the original floor may never have been true. Carpet hides all of that. Large format tiles, sheet vinyl and LVT are far less forgiving: every ridge shows.
We check flatness with a 2m straightedge. Under BS 8204 the gap beneath it can be at most 3mm for SR1, 5mm for SR2 and 10mm for SR3, and SR1 is what a lot of thin sheet products ask for. We measure across the old and new areas, mark the high and low spots, and tell you which class the floor meets as it stands.
A typical coat is 2mm or so at its thinnest and about 10mm at its thickest, and products made for deeper fills go further. First the floor is cleaned, then primed to suit whatever is underneath, be it concrete, sand and cement or calcium sulphate. The compound is then poured and spread over the whole area, leaving old and new floors on one plane, so the finish crosses the join without a visible line.
When the correction is very thin or the patch is small, a few millimetres of latex compound is often enough.
Only 3% of Yateley's homes date from before 1919, so period floors are rare here, and most levelling goes over concrete or screed.
When a Yateley floor needs more than compound
Compound will not rescue every floor. Laid thick to fill a floor that has sunk badly or broken up, it is liable to crack and come unstuck. If the screed underneath is hollow or crumbling, as original screeds found during remodels often are, a coat of compound only hides the problem for a while.
Then the failed screed needs breaking out and relaying, and our page on relaying with sand and cement covers that route. When the new screed has dried, a thin coat of compound can take it to SR1 if the finish needs it.
Timing matters too. Compound goes on once the screed below is dry enough, and fast drying products mean the flooring fitter can often start soon after. For a rough idea of the whole cost, including screed and levelling, see our guide to what floor screeding costs. A primer skipped or a dusty surface left in place are the usual reasons a thin coat lifts later. Levelling is priced the same way for floor levelling in Farnborough.
How we price floor levelling in Yateley
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 Yateley
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 Yateley
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 15.2 miles from Yateley, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include GU46 and GU17, and Sandhurst (0.8 miles), Crowthorne (2.3 miles), Camberley (3.2 miles) and Frimley (3.8 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.
