Which screed fits which part of Barnet
Census 2021 counted 389,344 people in the borough, living anywhere from Golders Green and Hendon at the southern end to Chipping Barnet and the Green Belt villages of Totteridge and Arkley at the top. Sort the floors across that spread and three kinds of job keep turning up, each with its own page.
Split houses come first. Once an older house is turned into flats, it gains bathrooms, kitchens and floors shared with the neighbours below, so an acoustic screed or a levelling coat has to go in ahead of the finish. If the original solid floor has given up, or a wet room needs a fall to its drain, hand-laid sand and cement in Barnet does that work, while a floor that is sound but wavy can usually be rescued with self levelling compound for Barnet floors.
Then there are the inter-war semis strung along both arms of the Northern line. Plenty of these get a rear extension, and the new room is normally built up with insulation, a membrane and screed, quite often with heating pipes in it. Before picking a screed for a warm floor, have a look at screeding over heating pipes in Barnet.
Last comes the new building, mostly on the western side. Colindale is planned for more than 10,000 new homes, Grahame Park is being rebuilt and Brent Cross Town is a large regeneration project. Those floor plates suit pumped liquid screed, poured level by level. If the engineer has written a calcium sulphate grade on the drawings, our anhydrite page spells out what that asks of the floor.
Edgware, Mill Hill, Finchley, Friern Barnet, New Barnet, New Southgate and Cricklewood are all on our patch too.
Homes in Barnet at a glance
The most common home in Barnet is a flat (46%), ahead of semi-detached houses at 27%. The largest share of its housing, 33%, was built between the wars, and 20% before 1919.
| Homes in Barnet | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 10% |
| Semi-detached houses | 27% |
| Terraced houses | 15% |
| Flats | 46% |
| Built before 1919 | 20% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 33% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 14% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 13% |
| Built since 2000 | 20% |
House types from Census 2021 (table TS044); building age from the Valuation Office Agency council tax stock of properties, 31 March 2026 (table CTSOP 4.1). Figures cover the London Borough of Barnet (E09000003).
Screeding services in Barnet
- Liquid ScreedNew blocks in Colindale, Grahame Park and Brent Cross Town need liquid screed pumped floor by floor.
- Sand and Cement ScreedBarnet's period houses and conversions often need a failed floor dug out or a wet room laid to falls. We hand-lay sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedBarnet's inter-war semis along the Northern line are often extended with a heated floor. We screed over wet underfloor heating pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedNew apartment floors in Colindale and Brent Cross Town often specify anhydrite screed.
- Floor LevellingFrom Brent Cross shop refits to flats carved out of older Barnet houses, floor levelling compound readies the base for LVT, vinyl and tile.
- Latex ScreedOld tiles and plywood-covered boards often sit under new vinyl in Barnet flats and older houses. K & B lays latex screed over them.
- Concrete Floor GrindingBrent Cross retail and office refits can uncover glue, paint and ridges on the slab. Concrete floor grinding in Barnet leaves sound concrete.
We also offer fibre reinforced screed, quick drying screed, high strength screed, bonded screed, floor preparation, screed repairs, concrete floor repair, screed pumping, insulation & membranes, commercial screeding and residential screeding in Barnet.
Parking, access and timing a pour in Barnet
Barnet jobs are often won or lost on getting material to the room. Pumping means our kit needs a parking spot close enough that the hose can get from the road to your door. Streets with controlled parking or a bus route outside may need a bay suspension or a permit for the day, so mention it in your enquiry. An upper-floor flat is fine as long as the hose can run up a stairwell that is clear and protected. Sand and cement goes in by barrow and bucket instead: slower, but no pump has to park anywhere.
The calendar counts too. Before we pour, the room has to be shut against the weather, the plasterers have to have finished their wet work and any heating pipes need their pressure test. After that, the floor sits and dries before the flooring fitter can start, for a length of time set by its depth and what it is made of; our screed drying times guide goes through it.
Shop and office floors sit outside this page. Retail units and offices around Brent Cross, and the new offices in the wider Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme, go through our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Barnet floors
Sand and cement £18 to £25 per m², liquid £24 to £31 per m², supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026). MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your floor screed in Barnet
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Reaching Barnet
Barnet is about 19.9 miles east-north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including EN5, N11, HA8 and NW11. The nearest towns to it are Haringey (4 miles), Borehamwood (4.4 miles), Brent (4.7 miles) and Camden (5.2 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Barnet include Arkley, Brunswick Park, Burnt Oak, Childs Hill and Chipping Barnet.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
