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Uneven floor level on new concrete screeded floor...is latex the answer?

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 2.52 PM

My builder/plasterer has laid a new concrete screeded floor in a new extension. In an attempt to match floor levels to 3 other previous rooms. He has created a mound towards one of the other rooms (where there was previously a wall). This is so obvious within the new floor and it looks as though he has worked to a new board installed on an existing room to meet the new floor. This is a considerable peak and is as much as 2 inches higher than the existing floor and an inch on the newly laid floor in parts from the flat part. His solution was to lay latex and he has started to do this, but it appears to be raising the original mound and floor between all the rooms, to the height of the mound rather than removing the mound itself. Would it not have been better to sand or dig the newly screeded concrete mound (2/3 weeks in) rather than this approach? It means the new floor is higher all over than the 3 previous rooms we were trying to match to. He has asked me to pay the material costs for screed and I dont think i should? Help?? I dont want a bigger problem.

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6 Answers

Anonymous user

get a floor layer to do the work not a plasterer or other trades. it will always come back and bite you.

Answered22 June 2015

Home and Proud

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Blaenau Ffestiniog

Good Afternoon, Obviously I have not seen the newly laid screed and the set up in your property. However, in my experience when there is an uneven floor and significant lumps this is underpinned by poor preparation and poor surface regularity. I feel that it would be unfair for you to pay for any further costs. Latex is an option, however, as you have paid a contractor to level the floors, this is the job he should be completing, therefore grinding the screed to meet the appropriate level would be necessary to complete the original job.

Answered23 December 2014

C&C Construction

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

St Albans

I Second Home and proud answer should definitely be grinding the lump down flat no adding more material.

Answered30 June 2018

Anonymous user

Hire a machine called a scrabbler. Remove the hump and latex the whole Floor again

Answered10 August 2019

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Southend On Sea

The correct way is to have a professional floor layer raise the floor to the same level. Any other trades people, very high chance of large issues.

Answered26 August 2022

Anonymous user

Would you get a floor layer to plaster your walls? I think not! And as a floor layer I wouldn’t dare try it. That being said, a competent floor layer would get a STR spinning in for any major bumps and apply a levelling compound

Answered26 October 2022