Why carpet tile rather than broadloom in an office?

Access and replacement. Desk power in an Upper Hill office comes up through floor boxes, and a carpet tile lifts individually to reach one. Broadloom has to be cut. Tiles also let you replace the worn squares in a traffic lane after five years instead of recarpeting the floor.

The building is new. Can we lay vinyl straight away?

Only after a moisture test. A slab in a newly handed-over tower is frequently still giving off water, and vinyl is impermeable, so it traps that moisture and lifts at the seams within months. The test takes a day. Laying early and relaying later costs the fit-out twice.

Plumber in Upper Hill, Nairobi

We cover Upper Hill including Elgon Road, Ragati Road, Bunyala Road, Hospital Road, Mara Road, Lower Hill Road. Between Ngong Road and Haile Selassie Avenue. Tower buildings, so everything arrives by goods lift and within building hours.

What is different about plumbing in Upper Hill

Upper Hill flooring is office fit-out in occupied towers, so material reaches the floor by goods lift in booked slots rather than being carried in.
Carpet tile and vinyl dominate here because they can be lifted individually to reach the floor boxes serving desk power along Elgon and Ragati Road.
New Upper Hill towers hand over with slabs still curing, so a moisture test governs when an impermeable floor finish can go down at all.

Flooring in Upper Hill

Upper Hill is commercial, vertical and occupied, and all three change the job.

Working in a live tower

Material arrives by goods lift in booked slots, tools come up the same way, and waste goes down it. That is the constraint everything else fits around, and it is why an Upper Hill floor takes longer than the same area at ground level.

We schedule against the building’s rules rather than around them, and where the fit-out is happening in an occupied building we work the hours the landlord permits.

Floor boxes decide the finish

Desk power comes up through boxes set into the slab. Any floor finish over them has to be liftable in a small unit, which is most of the case for carpet tile and for loose-lay vinyl planks.

Sheet material bonded across a floor box makes future desk moves a cutting job, and offices move desks constantly.

Curing slabs

Towers hand over on a programme, and the slab is often still releasing moisture when the fit-out starts. An impermeable finish laid onto it traps that water and fails at the seams.

We test rather than assume. Where the reading is high the honest options are a surface damp-proof membrane or waiting, and both are cheaper than laying the floor twice.

What we are usually called out for in Upper Hill

Vinyl and SPC installation SPC and vinyl plank laid over a properly levelled subfloor: quick, waterproof and genuinely good value. Carpet fitting Broadloom, carpet tiles and stair fitting, laid over a subfloor that has been prepared rather than swept. Epoxy floor installation Epoxy laid on a slab that has been tested and prepared, the step that decides whether it lasts. Floor repair Diagnosing why a floor failed before repairing it, so the repair is not the first of several.

Landmarks we work around here: Britam Tower, Upper Hill Medical Centre, Nairobi Hospital, KCB Leadership Centre. See every floor type priced.