Which screed suits which Chorleywood home
Census 2021 recorded 12,632 people in the Chorleywood built-up area. Their homes are mostly generous detached houses, and the floor work that follows them tends to be one of three jobs.
The first is the kitchen and family room extension. A new rear room joined to an existing kitchen gives a wide, open floor, and pumped liquid screed for Chorleywood extensions settles flat across it in a single visit. The second is a ground floor refurbishment, where old finishes come up and the base under them turns out to be cracked or out of level. Sometimes a thin levelling compound before new flooring is enough. Sometimes the floor needs taking out and relaying by hand in traditional sand and cement.
The third is whole floor underfloor heating. Here the screed does real work, spreading heat evenly and protecting the pipes, so depth and cover matter more than the brand on the bag. How deep the screed sits over the pipes, and how slowly the heating comes up afterwards, are set out on our Chorleywood underfloor heating screed page. On floors of this size, liquid or anhydrite screed gives even cover over the pipes.
Older property adds a fourth question. Around Chorleywood Common and the Station Estate, both conservation areas, a new floor often has to meet an older suspended timber or solid floor next door, and the finished level has to line up at the thresholds. That decides the depth before it decides the product.
Homes in Chorleywood at a glance
Chorleywood is mostly detached houses (60% of homes), with semi-detached houses next at 21%. By age, 47% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 16% built between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Chorleywood | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 60% |
| Semi-detached houses | 21% |
| Terraced houses | 6% |
| Flats | 12% |
| Built before 1919 | 11% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 15% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 47% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 16% |
| Built since 2000 | 10% |
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 Chorleywood built-up area (E63004685).
Screeding services in Chorleywood
- Liquid ScreedKitchen and family room extensions on Chorleywood's detached houses suit pumped liquid screed, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOlder Chorleywood houses with a failed solid floor, a wet room or a garage conversion suit hand-laid sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedWhole floor underfloor heating in a large Chorleywood house needs the right screed cover over each pipe. We screed over your pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedBig Chorleywood ground floors poured in anhydrite screed to CA-C20-F4 up to CA-C30-F6, laitance sanded and moisture tested.
- Floor LevellingWhere a Chorleywood extension meets the old house floor, a self levelling compound gives LVT and large tiles a flat base.
- Latex ScreedOverboarded timber and old quarry tiles in Chorleywood kitchen refits take latex screed a few mm thick, ready for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingA lip where a Chorleywood extension meets the old house, or glue under lifted carpet? Concrete floor grinding takes it off, dust extracted.
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 Chorleywood.
Timing a pour and parking in Chorleywood
We cover the whole of Chorleywood, from Chorleywood Bottom and Church End to Chorleywood West, The Swillett and Heronsgate. Postcodes here include WD3.
Timing matters more than most people expect. A screed goes down once the walls, roof, windows and doors are in and the building is weathertight, and long before joinery and flooring. On an extension, the usual order is slab, insulation and membrane, then heating pipes if there are any, then screed. Book us once the roof is on, so the pour is not waiting on the weather.
Then there is getting the screed into the room. Pumped screed comes in a mixer lorry with a pump alongside, and the pair stay parked for a few hours while a hose snakes from the kerb to the room, so we need a standing spot and a route through or round the house. Where a detached house has its own drive, the lorry can usually pull straight onto it. Where a drive is narrow or the house sits well back from the road, we measure the hose run at the survey. Sand and cement arrives as dry materials and is mixed on site, which needs space for the mixer and a clear path for barrows.
Drying then sets the pace of the rest of the build. For drying, think in millimetres rather than weeks: about a day each up to 40mm deep, then slower, and book the flooring when a moisture reading says so.
Screeding prices for Chorleywood 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 Chorleywood
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Chorleywood
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 10 miles from Chorleywood, which lies to the north-north-east. Postcodes here include WD3, and Rickmansworth (2.5 miles), Amersham (4 miles), Chesham (5.2 miles) and Watford (5.4 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Chorleywood include Chorleywood Bottom, Chorleywood West, Loudwater and The Swillett.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.