Heated floors at Jennett's Park, Amen Corner and beyond
The screed decides how well underfloor heating performs. The pipes need full encapsulation with no air pockets, and enough cover above them for strength and an even spread of heat. Over the pipes, liquid screed wants 25mm or more, so 45 to 50mm is the usual total. A hand-laid screed needs roughly 45mm over the pipes instead, which builds a heated floor up higher.
On a new insulated ground floor of the kind found at Jennett's Park and Amen Corner, a flowing screed is the natural choice: it runs under and around every pipe and settles flat, giving tiles and engineered wood a sound base.
Then there are extensions. With detached houses making up 19% of Bracknell's homes, and extensions to terraces also frequent, an extension is a common chance to add a heated kitchen or garden room at the back of the house. The extension slab is new and insulated, so there is room to lay the heating properly.
Laying the pipes is not our part of the job. Your heating engineer lays them, and they should be pressure tested before the screed goes down. On arrival we inspect the edge strip, membrane and insulation, and if you have not bought them yet, our insulation and membrane supply can provide them. For the pour itself, including access and drying, see liquid screed for Bracknell homes.
Retrofits and heat-up in older Bracknell houses
Adding heating to a house of 50 years or more is mostly a question of height. The old floor has to come out, and the new build-up of insulation, pipes and screed must finish level with thresholds and door linings that are already in place. A liquid screed helps here because its total depth over the pipes is lower than a traditional mix.
Then comes the wait. Calcium sulphate can usually have gentle warmth from about day 7, but sand and cement must sit for at least 21 days with the heating off. When it does go on, nudge the temperature up in small steps across several days; rushing it dries the screed unevenly and cracks it. Setting the controls is for your heating engineer, and we will spell out what the screed needs.
For liquid screed over heating pipes, published 2026 UK prices are £20 to £35 a square metre; area and depth set where in that band your job sits. If you are comparing prices across the area, we lay underfloor heating screed in Crowthorne too.
Underfloor Heating Screed prices in Bracknell
Liquid screed over underfloor heating: £20 to £35 per m² supplied and laid (trade2base, June 2026), so £700 to £1,230 for 35 m². trade2base gives these figures excluding VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your underfloor heating screed in Bracknell
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Underfloor Heating Screed from Slough to Bracknell
On the map, Bracknell sits south-south-west of Slough, about 9.2 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG12 and RG42), next to Wokingham (3.5 miles), Crowthorne (3.8 miles), Sandhurst (5.3 miles) and Camberley (5.4 miles).
More on underfloor heating screed, part of our screeding services.
