Breaking out and relaying floors on Temple Hill
The Temple Hill estate was built in 1947, and its housing often needs worn screeds broken out and relaid level. A screed of that age may be cracked, dusting, hollow in places or out of level, and patching one area tends to expose the next.
The fix starts with removal. The old screed is broken out back to the base, the base is checked, and where the build-up allows, a membrane and insulation go in. A new sand and cement screed is then mixed on site, laid to depth, compacted by hand and finished level. For a floating screed over insulation in a home, the depth is 65mm; on a commercial floor, 75mm. With a sound base and little height to play with, a thinner bonded screed, 25 to 40mm stuck straight to the slab, may suit better; our bonded screed page explains when.
Hand laying works well room by room. It copes with small rooms, doorways and cupboards, and the mix can be adjusted for each area and depth. It is also the right material for any room that gets wet. A bathroom, shower room or wet room can be laid to falls towards the drain, which calcium sulphate cannot do safely.
Before relaying, the base may need attention too. Breaking out, cleaning and shot blasting are all part of our floor preparation work.
Kitchen floors and garages in Dartford's semis
Replacement kitchen floors are a regular job in Dartford's inter-war and post-war semis. When a kitchen is renewed, the old floor may come up with it, and the new screed has to meet an older slab cleanly, at a level that suits the new finish. Sand and cement suits these smaller floors, where a pump would add cost without saving much time.
A garage conversion is much the same job. Turning a garage into a room means bringing its floor up to the house level, with a membrane and insulation under the screed. The full build-up is in our guide to screeding a garage floor.
Sand and cement dries slowly. A 65mm floor will be several weeks off taking moisture-sensitive flooring, since the first 40mm alone dries at about a day a millimetre and the remainder more slowly. Short of time? A faster drying screed cuts the wait, published at £20 to £28 a square metre against £18 to £25 for an ordinary sand and cement mix. Adding fibres helps keep cracking in check for £1 to £3 more on each square metre.
For large open floors where speed matters more than access, compare liquid screed in Dartford.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Dartford
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Dartford
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement Screed from Slough to Dartford
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 38.8 miles from Dartford, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include DA2, DA1 and DA9, and Swanscombe (1.6 miles), Grays (3.8 miles), Northfleet (4.5 miles) and Bexley (4.5 miles) are close by.
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