Which screed suits which part of Epping
Three kinds of building account for most floors in Epping, and each points to a different screed.
The cottages on and behind the High Street are the oldest. Their solid ground floors are often damp, and they tend to need sympathetic work. Replacing one means lifting the damp floor, adding a membrane and insulation, then a hand-laid sand and cement screed that can be worked into irregular rooms and up to old walls. If the old slab is solid and simply out of level, a coat of compound under the new stone or timber can be enough on its own.
Head out to Coopersale or Ivy Chimneys and the houses change to post-war semis, the usual candidates for a rear extension and an open-plan kitchen. Semis are the largest single house type in the town at 35%, and knocking a kitchen through into a new rear room creates exactly the kind of wide floor that pumped liquid screed covers in a day. If that room is to be heated from the floor, our page on screed over underfloor heating explains the cover needed above the pipes.
South Epping is the part still to come. The adopted Local Plan allocates it for at least 450 homes, with a new primary school and green space, and new houses there are likely to use screed over underfloor heating. Where a developer specifies calcium sulphate, the anhydrite and flow screed grades page sets out the options.
Coopersale Street and Fiddlers Hamlet sit within the parish as well, and we cover them on the same terms as the town.
Homes in Epping at a glance
Semi-detached houses make up 35% of the 4,589 households in Epping, followed by flats at 23%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (42%), and a further 16% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Epping | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 19% |
| Semi-detached houses | 35% |
| Terraced houses | 22% |
| Flats | 23% |
| Built before 1919 | 14% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 13% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 42% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 16% |
| Built since 2000 | 14% |
House types from Census 2021 (table TS044); building age from the Valuation Office Agency council tax stock of properties, 31 March 2026 (table CTSOP 4.1). Figures cover the Epping built-up area (E63004569).
Screeding services in Epping
- Liquid ScreedKnock-through kitchens on Epping's post-war semis and upper floor flats both suit pumped liquid screed, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOld solid floors in cottages behind Epping High Street are usually relaid by hand in sand and cement over a membrane.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedNew South Epping homes are likely to have underfloor heating, while older Epping houses retrofit it. We lay the screed over the pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedSouth Epping plots and Epping apartment floors poured in anhydrite flow screed, from CA-C20-F4 up to CA-C30-F6.
- Floor LevellingA step where an Epping extension meets the old house, or a worn unit floor at Bower Hill, put right by floor levelling before LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen refits in Epping's post-war semis often need a thin latex screed over plywood or old tiles before vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingWorkshop floors on Flux's Lane and Bower Hill and Epping extension joins get concrete floor grinding with dust extraction, ready for the next layer.
We also offer fibre reinforced screed, quick drying screed, high strength screed, bonded screed, floor preparation, screed repairs, concrete floor repair, screed pumping, insulation & membranes, commercial screeding and residential screeding in Epping.
Access, parking and timing a pour in Epping
Epping High Street is a conservation area lined with listed buildings, so a mixer or pump cannot always stand outside the door. For a cottage on or behind the High Street, tell us where a vehicle can park and how far materials would have to be barrowed or a hose run. Sand and cement can be mixed a short walk away and carried in; a liquid screed pump needs a clear route for its hose to the room.
Timing on a High Street cottage matters as much as access. The roof needs to be on and the windows in before we pour, and any heating pipes must be fixed in place and pressure tested by then. Book the pour when the builder can give a firm date for that stage, and leave drying time in the programme before the flooring fitter arrives: roughly a day per millimetre for the first 40mm, then slower.
The small industrial sites on Flux's Lane off Stewards Green Road and at Bower Hill Industrial Estate are a different kind of job. Workshops, vehicle repair bays and storage units wear their floors hard, and a tired slab there may need concrete floor repair or a new wearing screed rather than a domestic finish. We price those on a site visit.
Screeding prices for Epping floors
Sand and cement £18 to £25 per m², liquid £24 to £31 per m², supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026). MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who lays your floor screed in Epping
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Epping
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 34.5 miles from Epping, which lies to the east-north-east. Postcodes here include CM16, and Loughton (3.5 miles), Waltham Abbey (4.1 miles), Harlow (4.9 miles) and Chigwell (5.6 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Epping include Ivy Chimneys.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.