Colchester's floors sorted by the age of the building
Colchester's floors split by age more than by area, so start with when your home was built.
Period houses come first. Around the Dutch Quarter and Lexden, older homes often have suspended timber floors or solid floors laid without a membrane. Replacing one usually means digging out, adding insulation and a membrane, and hand-laying a new floor. The sand and cement screed page covers that process and the depths involved.
Newer homes are the opposite case. 30% of Colchester's homes have been built since 2000, including private housing on the former Garrison land and the greenfield estates at Mile End and Braiswick. Garrison conversions and the newer estates at Mile End and Stanway tend to want flowing screed over heating pipes, or a quick drying screed where a fit-out is on a tight timetable. See pumped liquid screed for new homes and screeding over underfloor heating for how each works.
In between sit the council-era homes in Greenstead, which are frequent candidates for extensions whose floors must be laid to match the existing level. Where the join ends up slightly out, levelling the extension join finishes the job.
Flats make up 25% of the city's homes. For apartment floors where the drawings name a calcium sulphate grade, our anhydrite flow screed specification page explains the options and the testing they need.
Homes in Colchester at a glance
Of the 53,389 households in Colchester, 30% live in semi-detached houses and 25% in flats. By age, 26% of properties date from 1973 and 1999, the biggest single group, with 22% built between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Colchester | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 23% |
| Semi-detached houses | 30% |
| Terraced houses | 21% |
| Flats | 25% |
| Built before 1919 | 13% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 22% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 26% |
| 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 Colchester built-up area (E63004104).
Screeding services in Colchester
- Liquid ScreedNew homes at Mile End, Stanway and on the old Garrison land suit pumped liquid screed in Colchester: flat, thin, walkable in two days.
- Sand and Cement ScreedPeriod homes in the Dutch Quarter and Lexden often need an old solid floor dug out and relaid by hand.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for Garrison conversions, Stanway new builds and extended Colchester houses, laid to full pipe cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedColchester apartments and new plots: anhydrite flow screed poured to the CA grade on the drawings, from CA-C20-F4 up to CA-C30-F6.
- Floor LevellingOffice refits at Severalls, extension joins in Greenstead, uneven period floors in Lexden: Colchester floor levelling before LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedDutch Quarter and Lexden period homes with suspended floors can take latex over plywood before vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingDiamond grinding of worn slabs in Severalls and Whitehall units and at Colchester extension joins, 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 Colchester.
Planning a pour from Braiswick to Old Heath
Wherever the property sits, whether in Braiswick, Welshwood Park, Parson's Heath, Blackheath or Old Heath, the timing of a screed follows the build. The structure should be weathertight, windows in, first fix services done and any heating pipes pressure tested. Insulation, membrane and edge strip then go down, and the screed follows. Keep heavy trades and stacked materials off the new floor while it gains strength, and protect it before other work resumes.
On a new estate the drive or plot usually has room for the mixer and pump. In the older streets nearer the centre, kerb space may be tighter, so tell us when you ask for a price whether the lorry can pull up close and whether there is a shared access or restricted parking.
Commercial floors are handled too. Severalls Industrial Park beside the A12 and A120 interchange, and Whitehall Industrial Estate about two miles south of the centre, hold warehouse and light industrial units where heavy duty screeds, repairs and grinding are the usual needs. Postcodes here include CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4 and CO6.
Screeding prices for Colchester 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 Colchester
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 Colchester
On the map, Colchester sits east-north-east of Slough, about 70.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CO1, CO3, CO2 and CO4), next to Halstead (12 miles), Sudbury (12.6 miles), Witham (12.7 miles) and Clacton-on-Sea (12.9 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Colchester include Beacon End, Blackheath, Braiswick, Copford Green and Greenstead.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
