Where pumped screed suits Amesbury plots and extensions
Liquid screed fits floors that are wide, open and built over insulation. In Amesbury that describes two common jobs.
The first is the new build plot. New estates, Archers Gate among them, have filled much of the land between the old centre and Boscombe Down. A new build house is usually designed around an insulated ground floor, often with heating pipes clipped down before the screed goes on. A pumped screed flows across the whole floor, around the pipes and into the corners, then is dappled to release air and settle level. On a modern plot that normally leaves a surface within SR1 or SR2.
The second is the extension. Over a third of the town, 34%, went up in the last quarter of the twentieth century, from 1973 to 1999. Houses of that age are often extended at the back to make a larger kitchen, and a single open floor of that kind suits a pumped pour.
Liquid screed is also thinner than a hand-laid floor. Over domestic insulation it can float at around 35mm where a hand-laid mix wants roughly 65mm, and that saving often lets a new kitchen extension meet the old floor without a step. It shrinks very little too, so large areas need far fewer joints.
Some pumped screeds use calcium sulphate as the binder and others use cement. The calcium sulphate kind has its own grades and testing, set out on our anhydrite flow screed in Amesbury page.
Pump access and drying on Amesbury estates
The mixer and pump never come inside; they work from the drive or the road, with just a hose carried through to the room. Where a house has a driveway or a short frontage to work from, the run is simple. On a shared site, agree with the site manager where the lorry can stand and in what order the plots will be poured.
Ahead of that, foam strip has to run round the room, polythene must cover the insulation with every seam taped, and each doorway needs a stop fixed across it. On the day, close windows and doors and keep the room free of draughts so the surface cures evenly.
Walking on the screed after a day or two is fine. Laying a floor covering is a different matter. Expect the first 40mm to lose its moisture at about a millimetre a day, with anything deeper slower still, which puts most floors at several weeks. Our screed drying times guide explains the factors, and a moisture test before flooring avoids the failures that come from rushing it.
Salisbury, roughly seven miles south, has its own page on liquid screed in Salisbury.
Liquid Screed prices in Amesbury
Liquid screed: £24 to £31 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £960 to £1,240 for 40 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your liquid screed in Amesbury
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Amesbury
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 55.1 miles from Amesbury, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include SP4, and Tidworth (7 miles), Salisbury (7 miles), Andover (13.3 miles) and Devizes (15.5 miles) are close by.
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