Where liquid screed earns its place in Chertsey
Liquid screed is mixed at the plant, delivered ready to use and pumped straight onto insulation, a membrane or a slab. Because it flows and settles, a large area goes down in a day and the finish readily reaches SR1 or SR2 flatness, which thin finishes like LVT need.
Three kinds of floor in Chertsey are a natural fit. The first is the kitchen diner or rear extension on an interwar or post-war semi, the usual base for that kind of project in the town. One continuous pour covers the whole open area with far fewer joints than a hand-laid screed and very little shrinkage. The second is the flat, where the hose can go up a stairwell and the screed fills an awkward plan without voids. The third is the new home. Since 2015, 13% of Chertsey's homes have gone up, and at Longcross and elsewhere new houses and flats are normally poured in liquid screed over heating pipes.
Depth is lower than for a traditional floor. Over insulation in a home it can go as thin as about 35mm, or 40mm for a commercial floor, against 65mm for a sand and cement one. Pipes need 25mm or more above them, bringing most heated floors to 45 to 50mm.
You can choose a calcium sulphate or a cement based mix. We pick between them by looking at the room, the flooring and any chance of water. For how pumped and hand-laid floors compare, read liquid or sand and cement: which to choose; grades and laitance are on our Chertsey anhydrite screed page.
Pumping screed into Chertsey houses and flats
Getting the hose to the room is the planning part of a liquid screed job. We bring the lorry and pump up as near as the street allows and feed the hose in at a door or window. If the house has a drive, there is nothing to arrange. With parking on the road, or at a block of flats with a communal entrance, we check where the truck can stand and how the hose will reach the floor before the day.
Flat owners replacing a floor have one extra thing to protect: the acoustic layers that stop sound travelling to the flat below. Those have to stay intact, so the build-up under the new screed is checked before anything is poured.
Indoors, the prep must be finished first. Edge strip goes round the walls, the membrane is taped so screed cannot run beneath it, and door openings are dammed. The pour itself takes hours. The room then stays closed to foot traffic until the next day, and drying for flooring runs at roughly a day per millimetre for the first 40mm.
Where the truck cannot get close enough, a screed pumping setup with a longer line may still reach. For projects in the next town, we lay liquid screed in Addlestone too.
Liquid Screed prices in Chertsey
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 Chertsey
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to 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.
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