Microcement in Bournemouth

Microcement in Bournemouth is a natural fit for a town of flats, holiday lets and renovated villas, where a seamless bathroom or floor makes a small space feel larger. Zavoré installs microcement through our own applicators, and everything we install, we teach. We are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is, and the team travels to Bournemouth. Start with a sample board and tell us about the room.

Flats, villas and a wet climate

A great deal of Bournemouth's housing is flats. Victorian villas on the cliffs have been divided, and apartment blocks run along the seafront and up through Boscombe and Westbourne. Bathrooms in these buildings are often small, awkward and tiled in grout that has seen better days. Microcement turns a floor, wall and shower tray into one surface with no joints to collect dirt.

The floor underneath decides everything. Older villa floors can be timber on joists that flex, and a seamless finish will not forgive movement. Newer flats often have screed or boarded floors that need priming and reinforcing. A microcement surface is only as good as its primer, its mesh and its sealer, so the preparation is where the work goes.

We are honest about what microcement is not. It is not a cheap alternative to tiling, and it is not for a floor that still moves or a screed that is still green. If your bathroom needs a damp problem fixing first, we will say so at the survey.

Where microcement works in a Bournemouth property

Our microcement installation work covers floors, walls and joinery details.

• Wet rooms and shower areas in flat conversions, on a properly waterproofed base.
• Kitchen worktops and splashbacks in holiday lets that need to wipe clean.
• Open plan ground floors in 1930s houses with the walls knocked through.
• Stair treads and landings in renovated villas.
• Shower benches, niches and reveals.
• Cafe, bar and shop interiors along the seafront and in the town centre.

How a microcement job in Bournemouth runs

Every job starts with a survey, because the base decides the result. We look at the substrate, flatness, cracks, damp, movement, how the room is used, access and protection. Photos often answer the first questions. The steps are set out on our microcement installation page.

Then we make a sample for you to approve. The material is tinted to the colour on that approved sample before it ships. Many people begin with the sample board.

Because Bournemouth is a good distance from our base, the job is planned in blocks of days so the same team stays with it and each coat goes on in the right order. We agree dates once the sample and the price are signed off.

Materials, trade and training

For materials we sell only the lime built pastellone and beton stucco, which give a seamless look on walls. Microcement itself we install rather than sell. If you use your own decorator for the lime built products, we ship tracked across the UK from our shop, and trade accounts are on our trade page.

Decorators who want to learn can join our microcement course, which runs at our training centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester.

More finishes in Bournemouth

Other finishes we lay here include polished plaster in Bournemouth, limewash in Bournemouth, tadelakt in Bournemouth, marmorino in Bournemouth, clay plaster in Bournemouth, concrete effect plaster in Bournemouth and liquid metal in Bournemouth, and our decorative finishes specialist in Bournemouth page covers everything else. The original lime wall is Venetian plastering in Bournemouth.

Questions about microcement in Bournemouth

Is microcement waterproof in a Bournemouth bathroom?

It is the sealer that makes it waterproof and washable, not the cement. On a properly prepared and waterproofed wall, microcement works in showers. We check the base at the survey.

Can microcement go over old tiles in a flat?

Sometimes, if the tiles are sound and the base is flat and stable. Photos help us decide, and we say plainly if tiles need to come off first.

Will it crack on a timber floor in an older villa?

A floor that flexes will let a seamless finish crack. We check the joists and boarding at the survey and tell you if the floor needs stiffening or a different approach.

Can you do a kitchen worktop?

Yes, microcement can be used on worktops and splashbacks when it is prepared, reinforced and sealed properly. Tell us about the layout and we will advise.

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. Or order a sample board and see the colours on your own wall.