Single storey extensions across Calne
Almost a third of Calne's homes, 32%, are semis, and the post-war ones in particular, along with the terraces, are well suited to a single storey addition. An extension of this kind often becomes a larger kitchen and family room joined to the original house, which creates exactly the kind of wide, open floor where a pumped screed is at its most useful.
The method is simple to describe. It leaves the plant already mixed, travels down a hose into the extension and runs out over the insulation, finding its way round any heating loops and right into the corners. A dappling bar is then worked through it to knock out trapped air, and the screed finds its own level. That normally leaves an SR1 or SR2 finish, flat enough for tiles and LVT.
It is also shallower than a traditional floor. On domestic insulation it can be floated from roughly 35mm, where a traditional mix needs nearer 65mm. That margin often makes the difference when the extension floor has to meet the existing kitchen at the doorway without a step.
Because it shrinks very little, liquid screed needs far fewer joints across a big floor, and it flows fully around heating pipes with no voids. Both calcium sulphate and cement based liquid screeds are available; the calcium sulphate kind, with its grades and testing, has its own page on anhydrite flow screed in Calne.
Price pulls the other way, and our pumped versus hand-laid screed guide weighs the two against each other.
Pumping into Calne homes and flats
Mixer and pump do their work from outside, with the hose carried in to wherever the floor is. A driveway makes that easy. On a terrace with parked cars, the lorry may need to stand in the road, so tell us about any restrictions, narrow lanes or shared paths when asking for a price.
Flats are where pumping saves the most effort. Carrying sand and cement up a stairwell bag by bag is slow, while a hose simply follows the stairs to the right floor.
Have the room set up by the time the lorry pulls in, with foam strip round the walls, polythene over the insulation and its seams taped, and a stop across each doorway to hold the screed in. Once it is poured, keep windows and doors shut for the first day or two so it cures evenly.
A walkable floor is not a dry one. Before the flooring, count on a day per millimetre through the first 40mm and a slower rate below that. Chippenham, about 4.9 miles away, has its own page on pumped screed in Chippenham.
Liquid Screed prices in Calne
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 Calne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Calne
On the map, Calne sits west of Slough, about 59 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SN11), next to Chippenham (4.9 miles), Devizes (6 miles), Melksham (7.3 miles) and Corsham (7.8 miles).
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