Matching screeds to Cheltenham's Regency and post-war homes
The stucco terraces are what visitors remember, but the housing is more varied than that, and each part of it needs a different approach to the floor.
Take a Regency or Victorian house in Montpellier or Pittville first, where nothing about the floor should be rushed. Walls are lime-built, ground floors are often suspended timber, and basements frequently have no damp-proof membrane at all. Where a solid floor is being formed or a basement floor relaid, a hand-laid sand and cement screed gives the control needed around old walls and irregular rooms. Owners of these houses also tend to want heating in the floor without raising it, so a thin screed over underfloor heating in Cheltenham is worth planning early.
Semi-detached houses make up 33% of the town's homes, and the post-war ones are more straightforward, with extensions and kitchen refits. Knock one of those through into a big kitchen extension and pumped liquid screed will level the whole room, ready to walk across inside 24 to 48 hours.
Then there is new building. The Golden Valley development next to GCHQ is planned for about 3,700 homes, and new-build plots may specify a calcium sulphate grade; our anhydrite flow screed page explains what that means.
Some Cheltenham floors are solid but bumpy, and for those a skim of compound under our floor levelling service gets them ready for new flooring far sooner than a full replacement.
Homes in Cheltenham at a glance
Semi-detached houses make up 33% of the 51,525 households in Cheltenham, followed by flats at 27%. The largest share of its housing, 29%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 25% before 1919.
| Homes in Cheltenham | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 18% |
| Semi-detached houses | 33% |
| Terraced houses | 21% |
| Flats | 27% |
| Built before 1919 | 25% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 9% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 29% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 21% |
| Built since 2000 | 16% |
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 Cheltenham built-up area (E63004173).
Screeding services in Cheltenham
- Liquid ScreedCheltenham flats and post-war semi kitchen extensions suit pumped liquid screed: flat, thin and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedBasements and solid floors in Montpellier and Pittville's Regency houses need care. We hand-lay sand and cement screed in Cheltenham.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedMontpellier and Pittville owners want heated floors within old floor heights. We lay thin screed over underfloor heating in Cheltenham.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedSpecifying anhydrite flow screed for Golden Valley's planned 3,700 homes or a Cheltenham apartment? We pour CA grades to the drawings.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for trade units at Kingsditch and Festival Trade Park, and converted flats in Cheltenham, ready for LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen refits in Cheltenham's post-war semis and overboarded Regency floors need a smooth base. Latex screed laid thin for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingTrade counters at Kingsditch, units at Festival Trade Park and Cheltenham extension joins: diamond grinding with 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 Cheltenham.
Kingsditch, Golden Valley and timing a Cheltenham pour
Your screed lands halfway through the job. Before our visit, the rooms want glazing in, plastering done, and the heating engineer's pipes down and pressure tested. Once poured, it has to dry out before any flooring, so book the later trades with that gap built in.
Then there is getting to the room. With a pumped pour, our pump and mixer must park close enough for the hose to reach your door, which is not always easy in central Cheltenham. On a terraced street or where parking is controlled, tell us when you ask for a price so the day can be arranged properly, including any permit or bay suspension.
Commercial floors run to their own programmes. Kingsditch Industrial Estate, about two miles west of the centre, is the town's main trade and industrial area, and Festival Trade Park, off Runnings Road, added 14 new trade counter and warehouse units there. Next to GCHQ in the west of the town, the Cyber Central offices planned at Golden Valley will need smooth, level screeds and bases for raised access floors. Our commercial screeding service handles that kind of work.
Screeding prices for Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham
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 Cheltenham
On the map, Cheltenham sits west-north-west of Slough, about 66.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GL50, GL51, GL53 and GL52), next to Tewkesbury (7.2 miles), Gloucester (7.7 miles), Stroud (12.3 miles) and Cirencester (13.5 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Cheltenham include Alstone, Arle, Bafford, Battledown and Bays Hill.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
