Matching screed to Coventry's inter-war and post-war homes
Coventry's housing reflects two big growth spurts, and each leaves its own kind of floor.
Inter-war terraces and semis, in areas such as Coundon and Cheylesmore, often keep their original solid floors. Doing one up normally starts with a breaker on that old concrete, then a damp proof membrane and insulation, with screed on top ready for new flooring or heating pipes. Hand-laid sand and cement screed in Coventry handles those smaller rooms well, and adding pipes at the same time is covered on underfloor heating screed for Coventry homes.
Post-war estates like Tile Hill include blocks of flats, among them the Banana flats on Jardine Crescent, where acoustic screeds and floor levelling are part of any refurbishment. Getting a floor flat enough for new finishes is the subject of our Coventry floor levelling page.
Newer homes, open-plan extensions and new housing on mixed-use sites, such as the former factory land at Tile Hill, suit pumped liquid screed, which goes down flat in a single visit and can usually be walked on within 24 to 48 hours. A builder on a site such as the Tile Hill factory land, whose specification sets a calcium sulphate grade, will find that handled on our anhydrite flow screed page.
Census 2021 counted 344,289 people in the Coventry built-up area. We cover the whole city, from Allesley Green, Earlsdon and Finham to Foleshill, Holbrooks, Binley and Bell Green.
Homes in Coventry at a glance
The most common home in Coventry is a terraced house (40%), ahead of semi-detached houses at 30%. By age, 31% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 27% built between the wars.
| Homes in Coventry | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 11% |
| Semi-detached houses | 30% |
| Terraced houses | 40% |
| Flats | 18% |
| Built before 1919 | 13% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 27% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 31% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 10% |
| Built since 2000 | 19% |
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 Coventry built-up area (E63003006).
Screeding services in Coventry
- Liquid ScreedRear extensions on Coventry semis and new homes on former factory land at Tile Hill suit pumped liquid screed, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedBreaking out old solid floors in Coundon and Cheylesmore homes, then screeding at 65mm by hand: sand and cement screed in Coventry.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedAdding underfloor heating while an inter-war Coventry floor is dug out? We screed over your pipes at the right depth and set the heat-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedCalcium sulphate anhydrite screed for Coventry flats and housing sites, laid to the grade your drawings name and sanded before flooring.
- Floor LevellingRefurbishing Tile Hill flats or refitting offices at Ansty Park? Floor levelling in Coventry to SR1 or SR2 for LVT, vinyl and tiles.
- Latex ScreedOld tiles, overboarded floors and patched concrete in Coventry homes and flats, smoothed with latex screed for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingTile Hill industrial units, sites like Ansty Park and Coventry homes with old adhesive: diamond grinding 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 Coventry.
Access, parking and timing across Coventry
A city of terraced streets brings particular access questions. Where a house has no drive and the road is lined with parked cars, the mixer has to stand close enough for the hose to reach, and parking may need arranging in advance. For a pumped screed, the hose can run through the front door and hall to a rear extension, protected along the way. In a block of flats, it climbs the stairwell. We settle where the Coventry mixer will stand with you first, and only then fix the price.
Timing is the other half. A screed goes in once walls are plastered and pipes are tested, and before skirtings and doors. Flooring then waits on drying, which in a Coventry kitchen runs at near enough 1mm a day for 40mm and slower once past that depth. When a floor is dug out and rebuilt in an inter-war semi, the kitchen fitter and flooring contractor both follow the screed, so its drying time belongs in the programme from the start.
Business premises in and around Coventry keep a separate timetable. Business sites, such as Ansty Park just outside the city or the small industrial units on former factory land at Tile Hill, are covered by our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Coventry 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 Coventry
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 Coventry
On the map, Coventry sits north-north-west of Slough, about 70.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CV1, CV2, CV5 and CV3), next to Bedworth (5.1 miles), Kenilworth (5.4 miles), Nuneaton (8.1 miles) and Royal Leamington Spa (8.1 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Coventry include Alderman's Green, Allesley, Allesley Green, Beechwood Gardens and Bell Green.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
