Where pumped screed fits Epping's semis and flats
Liquid screed pays off on wide, simple floors. The post-war semis towards Ivy Chimneys and Coopersale are often extended at the back, with the old kitchen opened into one long room. Poured in one go, that floor comes out level from the patio doors to the hallway, with surface regularity to SR1 or SR2 readily achievable and far fewer joints than a hand-laid floor, because the material shrinks very little.
It is also thinner. In a house, a floating liquid floor can be as thin as about 35mm; the hand-laid alternative needs about 65mm. Those spare millimetres count when the new back room must finish flush with the old kitchen floor.
Upstairs flats suit it too. A pump hose can climb a stairwell to a first or second floor, so the screed arrives in the room ready to spread, with no barrowing through communal areas.
The homes planned at South Epping will add to this. Those houses will probably be heated through the floor, and a screed that flows wraps itself round every pipe without leaving gaps.
Two kinds are pumped, one calcium sulphate and one cement based, and the room plus its final covering decide between them. If yours is calcium sulphate, anhydrite flow screed specification goes into the detail. If you are undecided, our pumped versus hand-laid screed guide weighs one against the other.
Running the hose from an Epping street
Nothing heavy comes indoors: the truck and pump wait on the road or drive while the hose goes in through whichever door or window is closest. Where an Epping semi has off-road parking, that part is simple. Near the High Street, among the listed buildings of the conservation area, we need to know where the truck can stand and how long the hose route is. If there are yellow lines, a drive you share with neighbours or a tight passage down the side, tell us at the quote stage so the plan allows for it.
By pour day, every wall wants its edge strip, the insulation wants a membrane on top taped at each joint, and each doorway needs a dam so nothing runs into the hall. We check that on the day. Pumping is part of our service, and our separate screed pumping page explains how the equipment works; we do not hire pumps out.
Drying is where plans slip. Being able to walk across it after a day or two does not mean tiles or wood can follow. As a rough rule it dries at one day for each millimetre up to 40mm and slows after that, so get a moisture test done before the fitter starts; our guide to screed drying times gives the reasons.
Liquid Screed prices in Epping
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 Epping
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Liquid Screed from Slough to 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.
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