Older floors in Hockerill and New Town
New Town grew up south and west of the old core after the railway arrived in 1842, and Hockerill developed across the river. Older houses in both areas may have suspended timber ground floors or solid floors laid without a membrane. When those floors are replaced, the usual build-up is a dug-out base, insulation, a damp proof membrane and a floating screed on top.
A hand-laid screed copes well with a house like that. It is mixed to suit each room and each depth, so a narrow hall and a rear room with a different level can be handled in one visit. Floating on insulation, it is laid around 65mm deep in a house, or 75mm in commercial premises, before being compacted and closed off to a dense, level surface. We can also provide and fit the insulation and damp proof layers below it.
Homes built before 1919 account for 9% of Bishop's Stortford, and those from 1919 to 1944 a further 7%. Houses of these ages often have floors that were never insulated, so a renovation is the time to put that right.
In the conservation area along South Street, Potter Street and North Street, many buildings are listed. Any change to a listed floor needs agreement first, and we price the build-up that is approved.
Not every Stortford floor needs digging out, though. If the old one is solid and merely uneven, 25 to 40mm of screed bonded straight to it may do.
Wet rooms and garages in Bishop's Stortford
Water decides the material. Since calcium sulphate screed must stay dry, a wet room, a level shower area or a utility room with a floor gully gets sand and cement. It can be formed to falls, sloping evenly to the drain, which no self-levelling screed can do.
Converting a garage works along the same lines. Its floor is lifted with insulation and screed until it matches the house, as set out step by step in our guide to garage floor screed. Cement screed also takes load early and gives the cement substrate some floor coverings require.
Small jobs favour this method too. A single room does not justify setting up a pump, and a hand-laid screed can be barrowed straight in.
The catch is the wait. Each millimetre up to 40mm takes roughly a day to dry, and the rate slows beyond it, which puts a 65mm floor into weeks. On published 2026 UK pricing, sand and cement costs £18 to £25 per m², and a fast drying mix for a job that cannot wait is £20 to £28. Over in Harlow, there is a Harlow sand and cement screed page.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Bishop's Stortford
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 Bishop's Stortford
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 Bishop's Stortford
On the map, Bishop's Stortford sits north-east of Slough, about 41.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM23), next to Sawbridgeworth (4.1 miles), Harlow (7.6 miles), Great Dunmow (8.7 miles) and Ware (9.2 miles).
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