Microcement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microcement in Newcastle upon Tyne is a thin, seamless coating trowelled over floors, walls and worktops, so a bathroom or kitchen has no grout lines and no joints. Zavoré installs microcement through our own applicators, and everything we install, we teach. We are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is. For materials we sell the lime built equivalents, pastellone and beton stucco. A sample board is the place to begin.

Tyneside flats, terraces and riverside apartments

Newcastle has a housing stock that gives seamless finishes real work to do.

The Tyneside flat is the city's own house type, a pair of self contained flats in a brick terrace, one upstairs and one down, with the front doors side by side. You find them in Heaton, Benwell, Walker and across the city. Bathrooms in these flats are often small and added later at the back, which is the sort of room where a continuous surface from floor to wall makes the space look calmer and easier to clean.

Around the Quayside and in the converted warehouses and newer blocks of the city centre, the brief is usually open plan. A floor without thresholds runs through kitchen, hall and living area, and makes a modest flat feel larger.

The common difficulty is the floor beneath. Victorian houses have timber floors that flex, and microcement will crack if its base moves. We stiffen and board a springy floor first, or we tell you plainly if a different answer is better.

Where microcement works in a Newcastle home

Our microcement finishes suit the following.

• Bathrooms and wet rooms in terraces and Tyneside flats, floor to wall with no grout.
• Open plan ground floors in apartments and extended houses.
• Shower benches, niches and reveals.
• Kitchen worktops and splashbacks.
• Stair treads and landings, and calm commercial fit outs.

The sealer is what makes microcement waterproof and washable, not the cement. In a shower the tanking behind it still has to be done properly, exactly as it would under tile. It is not a cheap alternative to tiling, because the preparation is where the effort goes.

How a microcement job in Newcastle upon Tyne runs

We survey before pricing. We look at the substrate, flatness, cracks, damp, movement, how the room is used, access and protection. A photo of the floor and a rough measurement often answers the first questions.

Then comes the sample board. Colour is tinted to your approved sample before the material ships. Tiles must be sound and keyed, a screed must be dry all the way through, and corners and junctions are reinforced before the primer goes down.

Newcastle upon Tyne is a long way from Birmingham, so the work is planned in blocks of days. Our team stays on the job so each layer goes on in order. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off. See our microcement installation page for more.

Materials, trade and training

If your own decorator will do the work, the shop sells pastellone for seamless floors and walls and beton stucco for the concrete look on walls, with tracked UK delivery. We would ask you to leave a floor or a bathroom to us. A seamless floor has no grout line to hide a join, and the whole room is laid wet in one go.

Trade customers can ask about a trade account. To learn the craft, the same courses run at our centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester. See the microcement course.

More finishes in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microcement is one of several seamless options. For the wet room tradition look at tadelakt in Newcastle upon Tyne, and for the concrete look on walls see concrete effect plaster in Newcastle upon Tyne. A softer lime wall is limewash in Newcastle upon Tyne or clay plaster in Newcastle upon Tyne. Burnished walls are polished plaster in Newcastle upon Tyne and marmorino in Newcastle upon Tyne, and metallic accents are liquid metal in Newcastle upon Tyne. Everything we install is gathered under decorative finishes specialist in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Venetian plastering in Newcastle upon Tyne covers our lime plaster work.

Questions about microcement in Newcastle upon Tyne

Can microcement go over the tiles in my Tyneside flat bathroom?

Usually, if the tiles are firmly stuck, degreased and keyed. Drummy tiles are lifted and made good, grout lines are filled and the surface is reinforced. If tiles are loose or the floor moves, they come up instead.

Is microcement waterproof in a shower?

The sealer makes the surface waterproof, but the tanking behind it still has to be right, as under tile. A grout free surface is much easier to keep clean, but it does not replace waterproofing the structure.

Will microcement crack on an old timber floor in a Victorian terrace?

It will if the floor moves. A springy timber floor has to be stiffened and boarded before we start. That preparation takes longer than the finish itself, and we say so in the survey.

Do you sell microcement for me to apply myself?

We install microcement ourselves. For materials we sell the lime built pastellone and beton stucco, which give a seamless floor and wall look. Wet rooms are better served by tadelakt.

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 from there.