Bexley Riverside and the pumped floor
Northern Bexley sits in the Thames Gateway. Its Bexley Riverside Opportunity Area covers Erith, Crayford, Slade Green and Belvedere, and the new flats and houses going up there are specified with liquid screed over heating pipes, usually with acoustic layers between flats. Peabody is rebuilding parts of Thamesmead too, the 1960s concrete new town that Bexley shares with Greenwich.
Floor plates that repeat level after level are pump work: the hose puts down big volumes far quicker than barrows can. Left to flow, the screed levels itself, so it reaches SR1 or SR2 flatness under a 2m straightedge without fuss. It shrinks so little that a wide area needs only a handful of the joints sand and cement would, and because it wraps every heating pipe without leaving gaps, the floor warms up more quickly.
It is thinner, too. Floating liquid screed starts at about 35mm in houses and flats and about 40mm in commercial buildings, where sand and cement would be 65mm or 75mm. Above heating pipes it must have 25mm of cover or more.
Two kinds get pumped: one bound with cement, the other with calcium sulphate. The calcium sulphate kind has to be sanded and moisture tested with care, all set out on our anhydrite screed page for Bexley. With 23% of Bexley's homes being flats, it helps that on an upper floor the hose just runs up the stairs to the room, which saves a great deal of carrying.
Open-plan extensions on Bexley semis
New blocks are not the only place for it. Knock a Bexley kitchen through into a rear extension and you get a big open floor, which is just the kind of space a self-levelling screed suits. It is set to meet the existing floor at a fixed height, stays flat from wall to wall and gets by with few joints.
On a Welling or Blackfen semi, the pump and mixer can normally stand out front on the drive or kerbside, with the hose taken down the side passage or along the hallway to the extension at the back. Suburban streets in the borough usually make this easy, but let us know if the only way in is a narrow side passage or across a neighbour's access.
Before we come, edge strip needs fixing round the walls, a membrane laying over the insulation with every joint taped and dams fitting across the doorways. If you want us to supply that build-up, our insulation and membrane service does so.
Plan around the drying. Think in days per millimetre: around one each for the first 40mm, then more, and a test should come before any flooring. The figures are explained in how long screed takes to dry. Just over the Kent border, see Dartford liquid screed.
Liquid Screed prices in Bexley
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 Bexley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Bexley
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 34.3 miles from Bexley, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include DA7, DA1, DA15 and DA5, and Greenwich (3.6 miles), Swanley (4.4 miles), Dartford (4.5 miles) and Swanscombe (6.2 miles) are close by.
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