Where pumped screed pays off in Fareham homes
Liquid screed suits wide, open floors that need to be flat. In Portchester and Catisfield, the typical project on a house from the 1950s to the 1970s is a semi extended at the back. When the Portchester or Catisfield extension turns into one long kitchen and living room, the pumped screed fills it in a single pour, levels itself to SR1 or SR2 with no trowelling, and shrinks so little while curing that it needs only a fraction of the joints a hand-laid floor would.
Converted garages suit it too. A garage floor usually sits lower than the house, and the gap has to be filled with insulation and a new screed that meets the hallway. A liquid screed laid from about 35mm over insulation leaves more of that gap for insulation than a 65mm sand and cement floor would. Each layer of that build-up is shown in order in our garage floor screed guide.
Flats count too. Flats make up 17% of Fareham's homes, and getting screed to an upper floor by hose up the stairwell beats hauling bags of sand and cement up there.
Only 10% of homes in the town were built since 2000, but that share will grow with Welborne, where new build floors commonly take liquid screed over underfloor heating.
Pumped screed is made on two bases, calcium sulphate or cement. Which one suits depends on whether the area may get wet and what flooring is going down; the anhydrite screed page for Fareham covers the calcium sulphate side.
Running the hose into a Fareham house
The mixer and pump never come indoors; the screed reaches the room along a hose fed through the closest door. Where a Fareham semi has its own drive, the pump parks there and the hose goes directly indoors. If the mixer can only go on the street, tell us about restrictions, parking bays or a shared path when you ask us to price, and we set up around them. A hose can follow a hallway or climb a staircase, as long as the route is clear and covered.
The room gets sealed up first. We fix edge strip to every wall, lay a membrane over the insulation and tape its joints, and dam each doorway so nothing leaks through to other rooms. On the day we check that build-up, and if you need it we can provide it ourselves through our insulation and membrane supply.
You can stand on it once a day or two has passed, yet it is still a long way from dry. The first 40mm dries at roughly a millimetre a day and the rest more slowly, so test it before any covering goes down. Flooring makers set their own moisture limits, and a floor covered too early can lift or crack. If the extension also has heating pipes, the heating can help with drying once the screed is old enough, following the manufacturer's schedule.
Liquid Screed prices in Fareham
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 Fareham
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 Fareham
On the map, Fareham sits south-south-west of Slough, about 52.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PO16, PO15 and PO14), next to Gosport (4.6 miles), Portsmouth (5.3 miles), Hedge End (7 miles) and Horndean (8.3 miles).
More on liquid screed, part of our screeding services.