Relaying old solid floors in Farnham's period houses
Some of Farnham's Georgian and Victorian houses are listed, and all of them reward care when a floor is replaced. The old solid floor is removed carefully, taking account of walls, hearths and any features being kept. A membrane goes in where one is missing, then insulation if there is height for it, and the new screed on top.
A hand-laid mix suits this kind of work. It is mixed on site to suit each room, placed a section at a time and compacted by hand, so it copes with out-of-square walls, changing depths and small rooms off a hallway. A floating screed in a house is laid at about 65mm, enough to carry the floor over insulation without cracking.
Height is often the constraint. Old thresholds, stair bottoms and door linings fix the finished level, and in a period house those may not be movable. Where the slab is sound, a thinner bonded screed of 25 to 40mm fixed straight to it saves height, but the base has to be prepared and primed first.
The finish has to suit what goes on top. Stone flags, tiles and wide timber boards each need a flat, dry base, so the screed must be left to dry properly before they go down. If the screed is sound but slightly out of level, a skim of levelling compound finishes the job.
Wet rooms, garages and drying times in Farnham
Any floor that will see water wants a cement base. In a wet room, or a shower with no tray to step over, the semi-dry mix is shaped by hand so it slopes to the drain, and calcium sulphate should stay out of those rooms altogether.
Garages are another fit. A garage slab normally sits low, so turning it into a room means building up insulation, a membrane and screed until it lines up with the house; the layers are set out in screeding a garage floor.
A workshop, or a utility with a heavy washer and dryer, may need to bear weight sooner; fibres help resist cracking there, or we can lay a stronger screed mix.
What you give up is time. A hand-laid floor takes longer to dry than a pumped one, at about one day for each millimetre up to 40mm and longer beyond that, so a 65mm screed is weeks away from a moisture test. If the handover date will not move, a quicker drying screed is priced between £20 and £28 per m² in published rates, compared with £18 to £25 for the standard mix.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Farnham
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 Farnham
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 Farnham
On the map, Farnham sits south-south-west of Slough, about 22.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GU9 and GU10), next to Aldershot (2.9 miles), Fleet (4.9 miles), Farnborough (5.6 miles) and Frimley (7.4 miles).
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