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A joint free surface across floors, walls and showers, laid by our own team and planned around what is under the floor in your Liverpool home.
Microcement in Liverpool is a thin, hand trowelled coating that runs across a floor, up a wall and round a shower as one surface, with no grout lines and no joints. Zavoré installs microcement with its own team, and we are based in Birmingham, so our applicators travel to Liverpool for the work. The first step is a call or a photo of the floor, because with seamless finishes the base decides everything.
Most Liverpool enquiries come down to three questions. What is under the floor, is it dry and still, and what are the tiles doing? That is where we start, and a sample board follows once we know the surface can take it.
Liverpool is a city of brick terraces. Many have been knocked through and extended at the back, and the appeal is obvious. A kitchen, dining space and hall joined by one continuous floor with no thresholds looks larger than it is. Microcement is made for that picture.
The catch sits below the surface. In an older terrace the ground floor may be suspended timber, and a springy floor will crack any rigid coating, however good the material. Timber needs stiffening and boarding first. A new extension slab or screed has to be dry all the way through, not just on top, and cold, damp rooms slow everything down.
City centre apartments and converted warehouse flats are different again. Screeded floors and plasterboard walls give a more predictable base, and a bathroom there may already be tiled. Microcement can go over sound tiles that are degreased and keyed, with the grout lines filled and the surface reinforced, but loose or drummy tiles have to come up or be made good first.
The older the house, the more we would look at the alternatives below. A solid brick Victorian wall is happier with a breathable lime finish than a sealed film.
The reason people choose microcement is the absence of joints. A bathroom floor that turns up the wall and into the shower with no grout is easier to clean and calmer to look at than tile. It is only as good as its primer, its mesh and its sealer, and the waterproofing behind the shower still has to be done properly.
Hand laid microcement is never one flat grey. If you want a dead uniform sheet, buy a sheet product. The cloudy movement is the point. Read more about microcement finishes before you choose.
We survey first. That means the substrate, flatness, cracks, damp, movement and how the room is used, plus access and protection. Photos can answer small questions, and we say plainly if a floor needs stiffening, screeding or a damp problem fixing before anything else.
Colour and finish are agreed on a sample before work starts, and the material is tinted to the approved sample before it leaves Birmingham. The sealer then sets the sheen, from matt to gloss. Matt looks softest and shows water marks more readily on a floor, and we talk that through rather than defaulting.
Liverpool is away from our base, so the job is planned in blocks of days. A seamless floor has to be laid wet in one go, which suits a team that stays on site and works in order. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off. The process is set out on the microcement installation page.
Microcement is not always the right answer in an older house, so the shop carries lime built finishes that give the same seamless look. Pastellone is a lime and marble finish for floors and walls that goes down without joints. Beton stucco is a concrete look wall finish. Primer and sealer are there too, and all of it ships tinted with tracked delivery across the UK.
A confident decorator can learn beton stucco on a board. A seamless floor is a different matter, and we would ask you to leave that to us. Browse the shop, or ask about a trade account if you buy regularly.
Seamless is one route. For a burnished wall in a Georgian hall, try polished plaster in Liverpool. Inside the shower itself, the old answer is tadelakt in Liverpool. For breathable colour on solid walls, see limewash in Liverpool or marmorino in Liverpool, and for a soft matt wall look at clay plaster in Liverpool. If the cool grey wall is what you are after, concrete effect plaster in Liverpool is the wall finish cousin, and liquid metal in Liverpool adds a shimmer. Our full range sits under decorative specialists in Liverpool, and the area guide covers Venetian plastering in Liverpool.
Often, yes. The tiles must be firmly stuck, degreased and keyed, with grout lines filled and the surface reinforced. Loose or drummy tiles are lifted and made good first. We look at the tiles on the survey and say honestly if they should come up.
It can, if the floor moves. A springy suspended timber floor needs stiffening and boarding before a rigid coating goes on. If that is not practical, a different finish or a different floor build is the honest answer.
The sealer makes the surface washable, but the structure still needs proper waterproofing behind it, exactly as it would under tile. Microcement is a surface, not a replacement for tanking.
Both can work on a properly prepared, waterproofed wall. Microcement gives a seamless modern surface and runs across floors. Tadelakt is a burnished lime with a softer sheen, and it suits walls and curves. We help you choose on the survey.
For a floor or a bathroom, call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, measurements and the postcode. Order a sample board to see the surface dry before you decide.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Liverpool 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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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.
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