Garage conversions and small rooms in Alton
Garage conversions are a typical project on Alton's post-war and late twentieth century houses. The garage slab usually sits below the house floor, has no insulation and may fall towards the old door. Turning it into a room means building up insulation, a damp proof membrane and a screed until the floor meets the hall or kitchen at the same level.
Sand and cement suits that well. The depth can vary across the room to take out a fall, it is mixed in the quantity needed rather than ordered by the truckload, and it gives a cement base that takes tiles, carpet or wood. Laid floating on insulation, it goes in at 65mm in a house and 75mm in commercial buildings; the whole stack of layers is shown in our guide to garage floor screeding.
The same logic applies to small, broken-up spaces: a utility room, a hallway with several doors, or a room with a step in it. Pumping a flowing screed into a space like that often costs more in preparation than it saves in labour.
Bonded straight onto a sound concrete slab, the screed can be as little as 25 to 40mm thick, which is useful where height is tight. Adding fibres to resist cracking costs £1 to £3 per square metre, and when fibre reinforcement is worth it is covered separately.
Rebuilding floors in older Alton cottages and terraces
Older cottages and terraces in Alton tend to have uneven solid floors. A sound one may only want a coat of levelling compound. Where it is damp, broken up or has no membrane, the better fix is to dig it out and start again.
Starting again involves breaking up what is there, excavating deep enough for today's build-up, putting down insulation and a membrane, and finishing with fresh sand and cement. The screed can go down room by room, which helps when people are still living in the house, and it copes with the thresholds, hearths and changes of level that older properties have.
Then there are wet rooms. Calcium sulphate does not belong anywhere water reaches the floor, so a level access shower gets a sand and cement bed with its falls shaped towards the drain.
The catch is time. Drying runs at something like a millimetre a day until 40mm and slows beyond it, so a 65mm cottage floor keeps most new coverings waiting for several weeks. When the programme cannot carry that, a quicker drying cement mix cuts the wait. For a floor that only needs flattening, see floor levelling in Alton.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Alton
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 Alton
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 Alton
Alton is about 30.1 miles south-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including GU34. The nearest towns to it are Farnham (8.9 miles), Basingstoke (9.6 miles), Petersfield (10.1 miles) and Fleet (10.8 miles).
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