Which screed fits which kind of Chesham home
Census 2021 counted 23,691 people in the Chesham built-up area, living in houses that span well over a century. Before choosing a screed, look at what the room stands on today.
Take a Victorian terrace in Newtown. Its ground floor is often a solid slab put down without any damp proof membrane, or else suspended timber. Once you start renovating, that floor usually has to come out, and the room is rebuilt from the bottom up: insulation first, then a membrane, then fresh screed. Work like that goes room by room, and sand and cement laid by hand tends to be the sensible fit.
Pond Park's 1930s semis and the post-war homes in Chessmount and Hilltop pose another problem. Their owners more often add a rear extension, and its floor has to line up with the kitchen it opens into. Across a broad new kitchen, pumped liquid screed for open floors settles flat over the whole room in one visit. Plenty of those kitchens are now being fitted with pipes, so read up on screed over underfloor heating in Chesham for the cover and warm-up a heated floor calls for.
Then there are floors that can stay. If a slab or screed is solid but uneven, self levelling compound can flatten it for less money and time than a new one. If a calcium sulphate grade appears on an architect's drawing for your Chesham build, our anhydrite flow screed page decodes it.
Homes in Chesham at a glance
Of the 9,617 households in Chesham, 31% live in semi-detached houses and 26% in terraced houses. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (39%), and a further 19% before 1919.
| Homes in Chesham | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 19% |
| Semi-detached houses | 31% |
| Terraced houses | 26% |
| Flats | 22% |
| Built before 1919 | 19% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 12% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 39% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 16% |
| Built since 2000 | 14% |
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 Chesham built-up area (E63004541).
Screeding services in Chesham
- Liquid ScreedRear extensions on Chessmount and Hilltop houses suit pumped liquid screed in Chesham: flat, low shrinkage, walkable in 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedNewtown's Victorian terraces often need old solid floors dug out and relaid. K & B hand-lays sand and cement screed across Chesham.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating in kitchen extensions on Chesham's 1930s and post-war semis needs the right screed cover over the pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedChesham drawings naming CA-C25-F5 anhydrite or alpha hemihydrate flow screed: supplied, pumped and finished to grade.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for office refits at Chiltern Court and uneven joins in Chesham extensions, ready for LVT, vinyl or tiles.
- Latex ScreedNewtown's suspended timber floors, overboarded in plywood, take a thin latex screed before vinyl or LVT goes down in Chesham.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for units on Asheridge Road and Chesham Business Park, back to sound concrete 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 Chesham.
Timing a Chesham pour around the rest of the build
In a Chesham extension or renovation, the screed lands midway through the job, so the trades before and after it decide its date. Before we pour, the house should be closed in, with windows and outside doors fitted, wet plaster finished and any heating circuit pressure tested. Afterwards the floor has to dry before wood, vinyl or tiles go on, and a deeper screed takes longer. Pin down the pour date first, then give your flooring fitter a start that allows for the drying.
On pour day, access sets the pace. On the day, find us somewhere to park the mixer and pump near enough that the hose stretches to your front or back door. If your street has parking restrictions, the house has steps up from the pavement, or the garden is reached down a shared passage, mention it when you ask us to price.
Commercial floors run to a separate timetable. In Chesham the main business area is Asheridge Road, home to Anglo Business Park, the Chiltern Court office estate and the new Aerial Park scheme with its 12 warehouse units. Just north of the centre, Chesham Business Park stands on Townsend Road. A new unit needs its floor finished, while an older one may want repairs or resurfacing when tenants change over. That is handled by our commercial screeding service, whether it is one unit or a whole warehouse floor.
Screeding prices for Chesham 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 Chesham
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 Chesham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 12 miles from Chesham, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include HP5, and Amersham (1.9 miles), Berkhamsted (4.5 miles), Chorleywood (5.2 miles) and Tring (6.5 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Chesham include Chessmount, Codmore, Great Hivings, Hilltop and Lower Bois.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
