Pumped screed for Devizes extensions and open-plan rooms
Post-war building from 1945 to 1972 accounts for 25% of Devizes housing. Extending one usually means a new floor that has to meet the existing house, cover a wide open space and be ready for the kitchen fitter as soon as possible. Liquid screed is designed for that kind of floor.
The screed is mixed to a fluid consistency at the lorry and pumped through a hose into the room. It runs to the edges, flows around any pipes and levels under its own weight, with a light dappling pass to release air. Nobody has to tamp it by hand, so a big floor is finished in one day and comes out within SR1 or SR2 without much trouble.
Depth helps with the join to the old house. On insulation, a liquid house floor can be kept to roughly 35mm. That is much thinner than the 65mm a sand and cement screed would need, which can make it easier to match the existing floor level without raising door thresholds.
Low shrinkage is the third benefit. That lets a kitchen that opens into the lounge go down in one sweep, with much less jointing than hand-laid screed, and big tiles benefit from that.
Its binder is one of two things: calcium sulphate, or cement. If you want the two methods compared side by side, read liquid screed vs sand and cement.
Reaching Devizes flats, terraces and upper floors
Flats make up 19% of Devizes homes, and liquid screed suits upper floors because the hose can be run up a stairwell or through a window. Nothing is barrowed through the building, and the pour on a first floor is no different from the ground floor once the hose is in place.
Terraced streets need more planning. With no driveway, the mixer and pump stand on the road, so parking, permits and the hose route through the house or along a side passage all need agreeing before the day. Mention the parking and the route in when you get in touch, so the hose run is sorted before the lorry turns up. For how the pump is rigged, see our screed pumping page; pumps only come with our crew and are never hired out on their own.
Walkable and dry are different stages. Careful footsteps are fine a day or two in, at 24 to 48 hours, yet it goes on drying for weeks. Work on roughly a day for each millimetre up to 40mm and longer past that, and let a moisture reading, not the calendar, say when the flooring goes in. Our drying time guide has more.
Planning heating pipes in the new room? Cover depths and the warm-up routine are on our Devizes underfloor heating screed page.
Liquid Screed prices in Devizes
Liquid screed: £24 to £31 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £960 to £1,240 for 40 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your liquid screed in Devizes
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Devizes
Devizes is about 59.6 miles west-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SN10. The nearest towns to it are Calne (6 miles), Melksham (6.3 miles), Chippenham (9 miles) and Trowbridge (9.5 miles).
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