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Seamless surfaces with no grout lines, installed by our own team. A good fit for Aberdeen tenement bathrooms, new flats and open plan kitchens, once the floor underneath is right.
Microcement in Aberdeen is a thin, cement based coating trowelled over floors, walls and worktops to leave a seamless surface with no grout lines. Zavoré installs it with our own applicators, and we are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is. For materials we sell the lime built alternatives, pastellone and beton stucco. Microcement suits a city where so many bathrooms are small and so many floors are old, because one surface runs from floor to wall to shower tray. A sample board shows you the finish dry.
A great many Aberdeen homes are granite tenement flats, with compact bathrooms that were added or altered long after the building went up. Tiles and grout lines make a small room look busier than it is. Microcement runs up the wall and into the shower as one surface, which calms the room and is easier to keep clean.
The floor is the real question. Many older flats have timber floors on joists, and a springy floor will crack any rigid coating however good the material is. We check the boards, the joists and the fixings, and we say plainly if the floor must be stiffened or overboarded first. A concrete or screed floor must be dry all the way through, not only on top.
Newer flats and houses are different. Underfloor heating, level screeds and open plan layouts suit a continuous floor well, provided the screed has dried and the heating is brought up gently. We ask about all of this at the survey.
Our microcement is laid in thin layers over a primed and reinforced base, then sealed. The sealer makes it waterproof and washable, so the primer, the mesh and the sealer matter as much as the material itself.
It is not a cheap alternative to tiling, and it is not for a floor that still moves. The preparation is where the work goes.
We survey before pricing. That means the substrate, flatness, cracks, damp, movement, how the room is used, access and protection. Photos can answer small questions first. We then make a sample, and the colour is matched on the approved sample before any material ships.
Aberdeen is some way from our Birmingham base, so the job is planned in blocks of days, with the team staying on site so each layer goes down in order and cures properly. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off. The microcement installation page explains more.
We install microcement ourselves, because a seamless floor is unforgiving and the whole room has to be laid wet in one go. If you want to use your own decorator on a wall, ask about beton stucco and pastellone in the shop, with tracked UK delivery. Contractors can ask about a trade account.
Courses run in Birmingham, London and Manchester, the same at each. See the microcement course.
Seamless is only one route. For a burnished shine on a living room wall, see polished plaster in Aberdeen. A mineral concrete look on a wall comes from concrete effect plaster in Aberdeen. The older lime answer to a shower is tadelakt in Aberdeen. For a harder wearing grained wall, try marmorino in Aberdeen. A soft, breathable wall suits limewash in Aberdeen. Calm bedrooms suit clay plaster in Aberdeen. For a metallic accent, see liquid metal in Aberdeen. Everything we install is on our page for a decorative finishes specialist in Aberdeen. For the classic lime finish see Venetian plastering in Aberdeen.
Sometimes. Tiles must be sound, flat, degreased and keyed, and grout lines are filled and reinforced. We check at the survey and say plainly if they should come up.
The sealer makes the surface waterproof, on a properly prepared and waterproofed wall. It is the preparation and sealing that count, which is why our team does it.
Only once it is stiffened and boarded so it no longer flexes. A springy floor will crack a rigid surface.
We install microcement ourselves rather than selling it. For your own decorator, the lime built beton stucco and pastellone are in the shop.
To talk it through, call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough measurements and the postcode. The sample board is the place to start.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Aberdeen and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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Our main services: Venetian plaster installation, limewash installation, every decorative installation, Venetian plastering courses, the limewash course and our decorative finishes.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham, London and Manchester.
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