Rebuilding solid floors in Aldershot's garrison-era terraces
Aldershot grew quickly once the Army set up its first permanent training camp in 1854, and many terraces from those years still stand. Often nobody put a membrane under their ground floors. Well over a century later that can show up as damp patches, a crumbling surface or a floor that has dropped away from the skirting.
The cure in a house like that is normally to break the old floor out, dig down for a modern build-up and lay insulation, a membrane against damp and fresh screed. Here a hand-laid mix earns its place. It is mixed on site to the depth each room needs, it copes with the small rooms, chimney breasts and steps that older houses tend to have, and it leaves a cement substrate that suits tiles and wet areas.
How deep we go depends on the level the finished floor must meet. Laid floating on insulation, a house floor is normally 65mm of sand and cement, rising to 75mm in commercial buildings. Over sound concrete, bonding the screed straight down lets it be as thin as 25 to 40mm.
Before any digging starts, check the planned depth against thresholds, door frames and the height of any adjoining extension floor. Getting that wrong means planing doors or living with a step. Houses from between the wars, a further 13% of the town's homes, raise the same question of levels whenever a floor comes up.
Wet rooms, garages and tight spaces in Aldershot
Sand and cement is the screed to reach for where a floor may get wet. Calcium sulphate screeds do not suit wet areas, so a shower room or a level access wet room is laid in sand and cement, with the falls to the drain formed in the screed itself. Shaped by hand to the gully, it sends water where it should go and gives the tiler a true base.
Then there are garage conversions. A garage floor usually sits lower than the hallway and has no insulation, so converting it means building up insulation, membrane and screed to hall height. That stack, from slab to finished screed, is laid out in our garage conversion floor advice.
The trade-off is drying. It gives up its water slowly, roughly a day for each millimetre to 40mm and slower beyond, so 65mm means several weeks before most floor coverings. If the build cannot wait that long, a faster drying mix cuts the gap, and fibres for crack resistance add £1 to £3 per m².
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Aldershot
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Aldershot
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement Screed from Slough to Aldershot
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 20.1 miles from Aldershot, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include GU11 and GU12, and Farnborough (2.8 miles), Farnham (2.9 miles), Fleet (4.1 miles) and Frimley (4.6 miles) are close by.
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