What Is Actually Under Your Carpet
Under the carpet there is a pad, and under the pad there is concrete that has been shut away from the air for years. Old adhesive, staples, tack strips along every wall and whatever soaked through before you owned the house are all living in that layer. None of it is alarming, and clearing every bit of it out is what protects the floor you are about to put down. We lift the covering, strip the fixings and take the surface back to clean concrete, so that what we put down bonds to your floor itself rather than to a residue somebody left behind.
That is also the moment you find out what your slab is genuinely like. Most are flat, sound and completely uninteresting, which is exactly what you want to hear. Some have a crack that has been quietly moving, a patch where a plumber has been, or a low spot you have walked over for years without knowing. We show you what is there before we cover it and tell you what it means for the schedule, rather than covering it and hoping. You end up with a floor that is honest all the way down. Once your slab is clean, everything depends on what goes onto it: here is how the coating bonds to a bare slab.
