Garages, wet rooms and small rooms in Amesbury
In a town with so many recent homes, sand and cement screed earns its place on the jobs a pump does not suit.
Garage conversions are a good example. When the garage on one of these houses becomes a study or bedroom, the slab is built up level with the hall using insulation, a membrane and a flat new screed. A hand-laid screed is mixed in batches to suit the depth, and our guide to garage floor screed sets out the full build-up.
Wet rooms are the second. Put in a walk-in shower and the screed must slope gently to the gully, on a base that will not soften when it gets wet. Calcium sulphate screeds do not, so sand and cement is the normal choice under the tanking.
Small rooms are the third. A cloakroom, utility or porch can be screeded by hand without bringing a pump and mixer lorry to the house, which keeps the cost in proportion to the room.
Depth depends on the base. Laid floating on insulation, plan on roughly 65mm in a house, or 75mm for a commercial floor. If the slab is solid and you only need to gain a little height, a bonded screed of 25 to 40mm sticks directly to it. Fibres mixed in for crack resistance add £1 to £3 for each square metre.
Older floors and slow drying in Amesbury
Amesbury claims to be the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Britain, yet its older houses are few: 6% were built between 1919 and 1944. Should one of those interwar floors have failed, it is normally broken out and rebuilt from below: insulation, a membrane to keep damp out, then fresh sand and cement on top. Laying by hand lets the screed follow old walls and awkward doorways.
Traditional screed also suits floors that need early load or a cement substrate, such as a workshop or a garage that will keep a car.
What you trade for all that is drying time. Traditional screed gives up its water more slowly than the pumped sort, and any heating loops in it must stay off for 21 days or more. Plan the tiler around that.
If the floor is sound but only uneven, a new screed may be more than you need, and levelling the existing Amesbury floor could be quicker. For a job in the next town, see our page on sand and cement screed in Salisbury.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Amesbury
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 Amesbury
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 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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