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A thin cement based coating trowelled over floors, walls and worktops with no grout lines. Surveyed and laid by our own applicators.
Microcement in Chester gives you a seamless surface with no grout lines, running from floor to wall to shower tray as one. Zavoré installs it with our own applicators, and our showroom and training centre in Manchester is open by appointment. Chester suits it well in the narrow bathrooms of Victorian terraces and in the open plan kitchens of newer homes. Start with a sample board and a few photos of the room.
The city is full of Victorian and Edwardian brick terraces, in Hoole, Boughton, Newtown and Handbridge, and many have had a bathroom squeezed into the back bedroom or an extension. Tile and grout in a small room chops it up. A continuous surface reads calmer and is easier to wipe down. Newer riverside and city centre apartments, and the converted buildings by the canal, often have a flat concrete or screeded floor that suits a seamless finish well.
The honest difficulty is the floor beneath. Older Chester houses have suspended timber floors, and a floor that flexes will crack a thin cement skin. Springy joists, loose tiles, a green screed or a structural crack will all come through, and no coating bridges them. We check this at the survey and say plainly if the floor needs stiffening or a board overlay first.
A microcement surface is only as good as its primer, its reinforcing mesh and its sealer. The sealer is what makes it waterproof and washable, not the cement. We take the preparation seriously for that reason.
Our microcement finishes go in the places where joints are a nuisance.
We would not use it as a cheap alternative to tile, and we would not put it over a floor that still moves.
We survey before pricing. We look at the substrate, flatness, cracks, damp, movement, how the room is used, access and protection. Small questions can often be answered from photos first. The sample board comes next, so you see the colour and texture before anything is laid. The work is then planned in blocks of days, so the team stays on the job and lays each coat in order, because a seamless floor has to be laid wet in one go. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off. Our microcement installation page has more.
For materials we sell only the lime built pastellone and beton stucco, which give a similar seamless look on walls and floors, with tracked UK delivery from the shop. Decorators can ask about a trade account. Walls are kinder than floors for a first attempt. If you want to learn, the microcement course runs at our training centres.
Microcement sits beside concrete effect plaster in Chester for a grey, wall led look, and tadelakt in Chester for the older lime answer to wet rooms. For soft matt walls see limewash in Chester and clay plaster in Chester. For a sheen look at polished plaster in Chester, marmorino in Chester and liquid metal in Chester. The full range is under decorative finishes specialist in Chester, and we also cover Venetian plastering in Chester.
Yes, and it often suits one. With no grout lines the room reads larger and calmer. The walls and floor must be waterproofed and prepared properly first, and we look at the floor structure at the survey.
It can if the floor flexes. A suspended timber floor needs to be stiff and boarded over before a seamless coat goes on. We say plainly if it needs work first.
Often, yes. A solid screeded floor running from kitchen to living space with no thresholds is where the finish earns its place. It is laid wet in one go, so access and planning matter.
Microcement is cement based. Pastellone and beton stucco are lime built and are what we sell as materials. We install microcement ourselves, and we will say which suits your wall or floor.
Tell us about the room, the wall and the finish you have in mind. Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough measurements and the postcode. You can also order a sample board and start there.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Chester 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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