Matching a screed to Chertsey's old and new homes
Census 2021 recorded 6,198 households in the Chertsey built-up area, and 30% of its homes were built since 2000. That leaves a large older stock alongside a lot of recent building, and the floor usually follows the age of the house.
Chertsey grew up around a Benedictine abbey founded in AD 666, and its conservation area holds more than 56 listed buildings, mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries. Behind those old frontages, a ground floor can turn out to sit directly on the soil, with nothing underneath to stop the damp. Any new floor has to suit both the building and the conservation rules, and where a small room needs rebuilding by hand, sand and cement screed in Chertsey is the traditional route.
Interwar and post-war semis are the usual base for extensions and kitchen diners in the town. Knocking the back of one of those semis into a kitchen diner leaves a big open floor, and pumped liquid screed flattens itself across it and can be walked on 24 to 48 hours later. If the extension has a wet heating system, see underfloor heating screed for pipe cover and the heat-up.
At Longcross and the town's other new homes and flats, the usual build is liquid screed poured over heating pipes; if your drawings list a calcium sulphate grade, read the Chertsey anhydrite screed page. Corporate sites such as the UK head office of Samsung Electronics and the Compass Group head office need flat, durable floors, and that work falls under our commercial screeding service.
Homes in Chertsey at a glance
Of the 6,198 households in Chertsey, 31% live in flats and 29% in semi-detached houses. The largest share of its housing, 27%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 20% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Chertsey | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 17% |
| Semi-detached houses | 29% |
| Terraced houses | 21% |
| Flats | 31% |
| Built before 1919 | 14% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 20% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 27% |
| Built since 2000 | 30% |
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 Chertsey built-up area (E63005194).
Screeding services in Chertsey
- Liquid ScreedKitchen diners on Chertsey's interwar semis and new flats suit pumped liquid screed, flat and walkable within 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedSolid floors on bare earth in Chertsey's conservation area, wet rooms and small rooms: hand-laid sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedHeated extensions on Chertsey semis and new Longcross homes: screed laid over wet underfloor heating at the right pipe cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for Longcross plots and Chertsey apartment floors, to CA-C25-F5 or the grade specified, sanded and tested.
- Floor LevellingOffice refits at Chertsey's corporate sites and steps where extensions meet older floors: floor levelling before LVT and tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen and bathroom refits across Chertsey, from Fan Grove to St Ann's Hill: latex screed over plywood, sound tiles and worn concrete.
- Concrete Floor GrindingOffice and studio refits at Chertsey's corporate sites and Longcross need clean, sound slabs: concrete floor grinding by our own team.
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 Chertsey.
Access and timing for a Chertsey screed
We cover the whole of Chertsey, including St Ann's Hill, Fan Grove and the riverside estate at Bridge Wharf, out to Longcross, which has been growing since the late 2010s. Postcodes here include KT16.
Access varies a lot across the town. In the conservation area, buildings have narrow frontages set hard against the pavement, which leaves little room outside. A liquid screed pour needs the mixer truck and pump to stand close by while a hose is run inside, so on a street like that we plan where the vehicles stand and how the hose reaches the room before the day. A hand-laid sand and cement floor brings its own needs, with a mixer and a load of sand to place somewhere nearby.
Then there is the question of when. We pour once the glazing and doors keep the rain out, and after the heating engineer has fixed the pipes and pressure tested them. From then on the flooring waits on the drying, which takes about a day for each of the first 40 millimetres and longer for every one after. Other trades can usually carry on around a liquid screed after a day or two.
Give us your build dates early. We can then fix a pour date that suits the builder, the heating engineer and the flooring fitter.
Screeding prices for Chertsey 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 Chertsey
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 Chertsey
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 11.4 miles from Chertsey, which lies to the south-south-east. Postcodes here include KT16, and Addlestone (1.6 miles), Weybridge (2.4 miles), Staines-upon-Thames (2.9 miles) and Ashford (3.3 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Chertsey include Fan Grove and St Ann's Hill.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.