Large pours at Acton Gardens and North Acton
Purpose-built blocks hold 35% of Ealing's homes, and new ones keep arriving: 12% of the borough's homes date from 2015 or later. Much of that growth is in Acton. Acton Gardens is replacing the South Acton Estate, and North Acton falls within the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area. The new blocks in both places use liquid screed laid in large pours.
Why liquid? A pump covers a whole floor plate in a day, the screed flows around pipes and service runs, and it settles to SR1 or SR2 without hand compaction. Because it hardly shrinks, an apartment floor at Acton Gardens can go down in broad bays, needing much less jointing than sand and cement. Pumping on its own is covered under screed pumping.
Floated on insulation, a flat or house needs about 35mm and commercial space about 40mm. Put heating pipes in and the minimum above them is 25mm, giving 45 to 50mm overall. A thinner build-up means less weight on the structure and more room for insulation within the same floor zone.
Some liquid mixes use calcium sulphate as the binder; others use cement. The choice rests on the finish, the programme and whether the area might get wet, and we advise on which suits each floor before quoting. In a block, the wet areas are usually the deciding factor, since those floors may need a cement based product.
Extensions in Greenford, Perivale and Northolt semis
In Ealing's houses, the obvious place for liquid screed is a rear extension. The inter-war semis of Greenford, Perivale and Northolt suit rear extension slabs, and where the new room opens into the kitchen, a pumped screed can cover the extension and, if wanted, the old kitchen floor in one pour, so there is no step or seam between them.
Access to a semi can be easier than to a terrace, because a side passage or drive may take the hose. Where there is none, it runs through the house over protected floors. We need a parking space near the front for the pump and mixer, and in a controlled zone that may mean a permit.
Walking on the new floor is possible in 24 to 48 hours. Drying for flooring is a separate matter that depends on depth, product and ventilation, and the liquid versus sand and cement guide compares the two. If the extension will have wet heating, read the heated screed page for Ealing first, since pipe cover changes the depth.
Liquid Screed prices in Ealing
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 Ealing
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Ealing
Ealing is about 14.3 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including W3, W4, UB1 and UB6. The nearest towns to it are Hounslow (3.5 miles), Brent (3.5 miles), Hammersmith and Fulham (4.4 miles) and Richmond upon Thames (4.9 miles).
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