Taking up old floors in West Ealing and Hanwell
A new floor in a period terrace starts with removal. The old floor is taken up, the ground dug to a depth that allows for insulation, a membrane laid and taken up to the walls, and then the screed goes on. Victorian and Edwardian houses around Ealing Broadway, West Ealing and Hanwell often need exactly that, and the new screed is often placed for underfloor heating at the same stage.
A hand-laid mix bends to the quirks of an old house. It is mixed in batches on site, barrowed through the house and laid room by room, so a narrow hallway, a back addition and a step down to the kitchen can each be set to its own level. It is compacted and power floated to a dense surface, ready for tiles or wood once dry.
Over insulation, plan on 65mm in a home or 75mm in commercial premises, and roughly 45mm above any heating pipes. If only the surface has gone and the slab beneath is still sound, bonding 25 to 40mm straight onto it can save breaking anything out; the depths for each type of screed are listed in our guide.
Patience matters: think of a day per mm through the first 40mm, with anything deeper drying more slowly still. In a Hanwell terrace with a 65mm floor, that means weeks before timber or LVT, and the fitter's date should hang on a hygrometer reading.
Converted flats and wet rooms in Ealing period houses
Converted flats make up 14% of Ealing's homes, and they need acoustic floors so footsteps do not carry to the flat below. The acoustic layer goes under the screed, and the screed is kept off the walls with an edge strip so it does not bridge the sound. That detailing has to be agreed before the floor is laid.
Bathrooms and wet rooms in these flats and houses are another case for sand and cement. Persistent damp softens calcium sulphate, which rules it out under a shower; a cement based screed goes there instead, sloped by hand towards the waste.
Mixes can be adjusted. Mixing in fibres costs £1 to £3 per m² more and makes cracking less likely, and when the programme is short a faster drying sand and cement mix costs £20 to £28 per m². Where the floor must carry heavier loads, a higher strength screed is an option.
If the old floor is sound and only the surface is uneven, a skim may be enough, and levelling floors in Ealing explains when.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Ealing
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 Ealing
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 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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