Retrofitting heated floors in Crowthorne's detached houses
In a large Crowthorne house, a heating retrofit usually means the whole ground floor at once. Out comes the old floor, in goes insulation, your heating engineer clips the pipes down and runs a pressure test, and our screed goes over the lot. Fitting pipes is not our trade, but before any pour we look over the membrane, edge strip and insulation, and our insulation and membrane supply can provide them.
The figure to watch is how much screed sits above the pipes. With liquid, 25mm is the minimum over them, so floors usually total 45 to 50mm; sand and cement wants around 45mm, so it builds deeper. In a retrofit where doors, thresholds and a staircase are already fixed, that difference in height can decide which screed is used.
Liquid screed has a further advantage over heating pipes. It flows around and under every pipe with no air pockets, so heat spreads evenly and the system warms up faster. On a wide, open-plan floor that also means fewer joints to plan around the heating zones.
The mid-century houses of Edgcumbe Park raise one extra step: their original floors often need assessing before remodelling, so we check what is there before deciding how deep the new build-up can be. If the floor is only uneven rather than failing, heating may still need the old floor out to fit the insulation. Liquid screed across Crowthorne covers the pour itself in more detail.
New homes, garden rooms and first heat-up in Crowthorne
18% of Crowthorne's homes were built in 2015 or later, and new building continues at Buckler's Park, where screed goes in over new insulated slabs. Where a new home is designed with underfloor heating, the build-up is planned before the slab is poured.
On a generous Crowthorne plot, a heated garden room or rear extension follows the same steps on a smaller scale. A new insulated slab with pipes laid on top takes a liquid or sand and cement screed, and the depth is planned so the new room meets the house at the same level.
The first heat-up is where screeds get damaged. Calcium sulphate can usually take gentle warmth from about day 7; sand and cement must wait 21 days or more. Either way, the heat climbs in steps across several days rather than going straight to maximum. Your heating engineer programmes the controls, and we spell out the schedule the screed needs. For liquid screed over pipes, published 2026 UK prices sit between £20 and £35 per m². We screed over underfloor heating in Wokingham as well.
Underfloor Heating Screed prices in Crowthorne
Liquid screed over underfloor heating: £20 to £35 per m² supplied and laid (trade2base, June 2026), so £700 to £1,230 for 35 m². trade2base gives these figures excluding VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your underfloor heating screed in Crowthorne
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Underfloor Heating Screed from Slough to Crowthorne
On the map, Crowthorne sits south-south-west of Slough, about 13 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG45), next to Sandhurst (1.6 miles), Yateley (2.3 miles), Camberley (3 miles) and Wokingham (3.3 miles).
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