Why pumped screed suits Cepen Park and Pewsham floors
Houses on the Cepen Park and Pewsham estates went up in the 1980s and 1990s, and they have reached the age where owners knock through, extend at the back or swap a conservatory for a proper room. Each of those jobs leaves a large, open floor to fill, and that is where liquid screed earns its keep.
The screed turns up ready mixed and runny, and a hose carries it from the lorry to wherever the floor is. It flows to the edges, around any pipes and into corners, and a quick dappling pass knocks out trapped air. The result is a dense floor, with surface regularity to SR1 or SR2 readily achievable, which matters if the finish is large tiles or LVT.
Depth is lower than a traditional screed. Over insulation in a home, liquid screed can float at about 35mm where sand and cement would need 65mm, and that saving often makes it easier to bring a Pewsham or Cepen Park extension up to the level of the old floor. It hardly shrinks, which keeps the joints in a long knocked-through kitchen-diner down to a few.
There are two families of liquid screed, one made with calcium sulphate and one made with cement. The specification or the use of the room decides which, and both are pumped the same way.
Semi-detached homes make up 32% of Chippenham's housing. Where a semi has a driveway or side access close to the extension, the hose run stays short.
Pump access from Chippenham streets and upper floors
Nothing heavy comes indoors: the pump sits by the lorry and only the hose enters the house. On a typical estate house the lorry parks on the drive or the road outside, and the line runs through a side gate or the garage to the extension. Older terraces near the town centre are tighter: there may be no frontage, parking restrictions or a shared passage, so we need to know that at the quoting stage.
Hoses can also be run up stairs to an upper floor or a flat, which avoids carrying material through the building by hand. For more on how the equipment is set up, see our screed pumping service.
You can normally step onto a fresh liquid floor after 24 to 48 hours, but being able to walk on it does not mean it is dry. Allow roughly one day for each millimetre of the first 40mm, longer beyond that depth, and expect a moisture reading before tiles, LVT or wood are laid. We cover the maths in our screed drying explainer.
If the new room carries underfloor heating, see our Chippenham underfloor heating screed page for pipe cover and commissioning. Still choosing between materials? Our side by side of pumped and hand-laid screed is a good place to start.
Liquid Screed prices in Chippenham
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 Chippenham
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.
Liquid Screed from Slough to Chippenham
On the map, Chippenham sits west of Slough, about 63.6 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SN15), next to Corsham (3.5 miles), Calne (4.9 miles), Melksham (6 miles) and Devizes (9 miles).
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