Rebuilding old solid floors in Penge and Anerley terraces
When an old solid floor in a Victorian terrace fails, patching it rarely makes sense. Normally we break the old slab up, excavate deep enough to fit insulation, put a new damp proof membrane down and screed over the lot. Penge and Anerley have terraces of exactly this age, and those houses can need a new membrane below any fresh screed.
For a rebuild like that, hand-mixed sand and cement is the obvious choice. It is mixed on site in small batches, so it copes with narrow halls, stepped rooms and doorways that a pump hose would struggle through. It can be laid bonded to a sound concrete base, unbonded over a membrane, or floating over insulation. A floating domestic floor is 65mm deep, and 75mm in commercial buildings. Where the existing slab is still sound and the doors leave little room, a screed bonded straight to the slab needs only 25 to 40mm.
We then compact it and power float the surface until it is dense. Expect a slower dry than a pumped floor: about a day for each mm up to 40mm, then longer per mm, so a 65mm floor in a Penge terrace is weeks away from taking moisture sensitive flooring. A hygrometer reading is taken before we hand the room back to you.
Terraced houses make up 21% of Bromley's homes, and room by room work in them is where hand laying earns its keep.
Wet rooms, garages and falls in Bromley houses
Some floors should be cement based whatever else is used in the house. Showers and wet rooms come first, since persistent damp weakens calcium sulphate screed. A hand-laid floor can be shaped to slope towards the drain, and the tiler gets a cement base to fix to.
Converting a garage is the second. A garage slab usually sits a step down from the hall, and closing that gap takes insulation, then a membrane, then screed. See our garage conversion screeding guide for each layer.
It also handles floors that must take weight early or stand up to wear, and the mix can be adjusted. Fibres add £1 to £3 per m² and reduce the risk of cracking in thinner or larger bays, and a fast drying mix, at £20 to £28 per m², helps where the programme cannot wait; see quick drying screed.
If your old Bromley floor is solid but out of level, a fresh screed may be unnecessary. The floor levelling service in Bromley explains when compound alone will do.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Bromley
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 Bromley
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 Bromley
On the map, Bromley sits east-south-east of Slough, about 31.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SE20, BR3, TN16 and BR1), next to Swanley (5.5 miles), Lewisham (5.7 miles), Croydon (5.8 miles) and Bexley (6.9 miles).
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