Matching screed to Buckingham's homes, centre to edge
Census 2021 counted 5,919 households in the Buckingham built-up area. Their homes are younger than the market town image suggests: 39% were built between 1973 and 1999, and a large share since.
Start in the middle. Much of the centre was rebuilt in Georgian style after 1725, and survivors such as the Grade I listed Castle House on West Street and the late 18th-century Town Hall stand among it. In listed and period buildings, a blanket new screed is rarely the right answer. A careful repair, or a traditional sand and cement screed laid by hand where a floor genuinely has to be replaced, respects the original construction better.
Further out from the centre are the suburbs, such as Mount Pleasant, Page Hill, Bourton and Linden Village. Wherever a house gains a large extension or an open-plan kitchen, the wide floor suits pumped liquid screed, and a heated one needs the right cover over the pipes, covered on our underfloor heating screed page for Buckingham.
At the edges, new building continues. Lace Hill brought 696 homes with a primary school and community centre, and Vistry has land off Osier Way with outline plans for up to 420 more. Where a housebuilder's specification names a grade, the job is a calcium sulphate flow screed to a set grade.
Homes in Buckingham at a glance
Of the 5,919 households in Buckingham, 37% live in detached houses and 28% in semi-detached houses. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (39%), and a further 19% between 2000 and 2014.
| Homes in Buckingham | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 37% |
| Semi-detached houses | 28% |
| Terraced houses | 22% |
| Flats | 12% |
| Built before 1919 | 8% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 4% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 14% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 39% |
| Built since 2000 | 36% |
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 Buckingham built-up area (E63003956).
Screeding services in Buckingham
- Liquid ScreedNew housing phases on Buckingham's edges and wide detached ground floors suit pumped liquid screed, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedPeriod buildings in Buckingham's Georgian centre and small rooms in older houses often suit hand-laid sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedBuckingham extensions and newer homes with wet underfloor heating need full pipe encapsulation and a careful first warm-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedBuckingham plots and apartments specified in anhydrite screed need the right CA grade, laitance removal and moisture tests.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Tingewick Road Industrial Estate units and Buckingham offices changing layout, flat and primed for new finishes.
- Latex ScreedOverboarded timber, firm old tiles and worn concrete in Buckingham homes get a thin latex screed before vinyl, LVT or carpet.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Tingewick Road warehouse units and Buckingham technology parks, ground clean under dust extraction.
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 Buckingham.
Access and programme on Buckingham jobs
In the town centre, parking outside a property can be limited and loading has to fit around other traffic. A hand-laid screed needs only materials delivered to the door, while a pump needs space for the mixer for a few hours. Tell us about access when you ask for a price, and whether neighbours share the drive or the path to the back door.
On housing sites, the site manager usually sets the sequence. Screed goes in once the plot is weathertight and any heating pipes have been tested, and flooring follows once the screed has dried. On a private extension the same order applies, and the drying time should be written into the builder's programme rather than left to the end, where it tends to get squeezed.
Business premises are part of the town too. Tingewick Road Industrial Estate, reached from the A421, includes warehouse units of over 53,000 sq ft, and other estates and technology parks house pharmaceutical, electronics, food and composite materials firms. Those premises need hard-wearing, level floors and repairs when layouts change, which is where floor levelling for refits fits in.
Screeding prices for Buckingham 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 Buckingham
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 Buckingham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 35.6 miles from Buckingham, which lies to the north-north-west. Postcodes here include MK18, and Brackley (7.1 miles), Towcester (9 miles), Bicester (10.1 miles) and Milton Keynes (10.3 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Buckingham include Linden Village, Mount Pleasant, Page Hill, Stratford Fields and The Badgers.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
