Replacing ground floors in Luton's Victorian terraces
In many of the Victorian terraces between the High Street and Luton, the ground floor is one of two things. Either it is suspended timber over a void, or it is an old solid floor laid without any damp protection. Both are usually tackled at the same point in a renovation: when a new kitchen or a rear extension goes in.
There is an order to it. First the old floor is lifted and the ground below excavated to the right level. A slab goes down, then a membrane and insulation, and finally the screed. In a house, the floating screed goes down at 65mm, mixed on site to suit the room and hand compacted, then finished dense and level.
Hand laying suits this kind of work. In small rooms and narrow passages, a crew with a mixer and barrows can work room by room where a pump would add little. It also lets the new floor in the old house be laid to match the level of an extension being built at the back, so the two meet without a step.
Bathrooms with a shower and full wet rooms belong in sand and cement: water does not harm it the way it harms calcium sulphate, and it can be shaped to fall towards the drain. Where a thinner floor fixed to the slab is needed, a bonded screed at 25 to 40mm is an option. The layers below the screed are covered by our membrane and insulation service.
Garage floors and workshops around Walderslade and Chatham
The Walderslade estates, including Weedswood and the Davis Estate, suit garage conversions, and a garage floor is one of the jobs where sand and cement makes the most sense. The existing concrete is usually lower than the house and unprotected. That calls for a membrane, insulation and a screed brought up level with the floor in the house. How that build-up is planned is set out in our guide to garage floor screeds.
Floors that need to carry weight early are another job for sand and cement. Workshop floors in Chatham need hard-wearing screeds, and a sand and cement mix can be made stronger, fibre reinforced or rapid drying to suit. Fibres put roughly £1 to £3 on each square metre, going by published figures. For heavy use, see higher strength screed.
What you give up is speed of drying. Each millimetre of the first 40mm takes about a day to give up its moisture, and deeper layers take longer, so a 65mm house floor needs weeks before any moisture-sensitive covering. Where speed matters more than access, compare pumped liquid screed for Chatham before booking.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Chatham
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 Chatham
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 Chatham
On the map, Chatham sits east of Slough, about 51.6 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including ME4 and ME5), next to Rochester (1 miles), Gillingham (2.5 miles), Snodland (5.2 miles) and Maidstone (7.7 miles).
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