If you are walking down your local High Street to do the shopping, you obviously expect that the pavement will be level and flat and that there won’t be lumps and bumps, dips, or raised paving stones that could cause you to trip over. It’s a given: in fact, it is not something that most of us even think about.
However, this does require work by your local council and their paving installers to ensure that the pavement meets the required standards. If not, it would be easy to trip over and injure yourself, and no doubt you would sue the council for negligence and damages.
Exactly the same thing applies when you walk into any sort of building, whether it is the supermarket in the High Street, the cafe that you pop into after doing your shopping for a quick coffee, or for that matter your own home. It’s not something you think about. You don’t wonder “Oooh, I hope the floor in the café is level”. It has to be.
However, when working on a building contract it is the responsibility of the architects who designed it and the contractors who carry out the work to ensure that those standards are met. In order to do that, there are the necessary procedures to follow, and one of them is to cover the basic concrete flooring with a thin surface which will cover it and thus make sure that whatever the final flooring is to be – wood, carpet, vinyl, tile, etc., – it is level.
A Thin Layer Of Screed
This floor preparation service in London is usually done by covering it with a thin layer of screed, which, for many years, has been a mix of sand and cement. This is laid on the concrete and then levelled out by a worker using a hand trowel to make it as flat as possible.
But today, things have moved on apace, and we now have a new type of screed which is in liquid format. This type of floor preparation service in London is what we provide at UK Screeds. The screed is pre-mixed and delivered to site in a truck. What we then do is connect a hose to the truck and pump the mix on to the concrete.
This has many advantages. Apart from anything else, because the screed is liquid it levels itself out. No need for a worker on hands and knees trying to level it with a trowel! It’s considerably faster and uses less material. There are lots of other benefits as well, which we discuss in another article.
