Heated extensions and garden rooms in Faversham
New heated floors in Faversham typically go into a rear extension, a kitchen opened up to a garden room, or a converted outbuilding. Whichever it is, the heating depends on the screed. It surrounds the pipes, spreads the heat evenly and gives the flooring a flat, stable base.
Pipe cover sets the depth. Cover with pumped liquid screed is at least 25mm, so a typical total is 45 to 50mm. For hand-placed sand and cement the figure is about 45mm, a noticeably deeper build. Liquid screed also flows around the pipes and fills every gap, leaving no air pockets to slow the warm-up. For a heated liquid floor, the published 2026 range is £20 to £35 per m².
The insulation under the pipes matters as much as the screed above them. Without it, heat goes down into the ground rather than up into the room. Before pouring we make sure the insulation is down, the membrane is over it and edge strip runs round the walls.
Newer houses are the easier case. 9% of Faversham's homes were built between 2000 and 2014, and houses of that age were generally designed with insulated floors, so an extension to one of them can often match the new heated floor to the old without a deep dig.
The pour itself is planned with your heating engineer, who fits and tests the pipes before we arrive, so the whole system is ready to be covered on the day.
Retrofitting heating in older Faversham houses
Adding underfloor heating to a period terrace or a timber-framed house is harder, because there is rarely spare height. The old solid floor often has to come out anyway, and the dig has to go deep enough for insulation, pipes and screed while the finished floor still meets the existing thresholds. Where the room is small and the space is tight, a thinner liquid screed often decides whether heating is possible at all. The alternative, hand-laid sand and cement, needs the extra depth.
Once the screed is down, heating it has to wait. Give calcium sulphate about 7 days before the heating runs, and sand and cement no fewer than 21. Begin with cool water and nudge the temperature up over several days; going to full heat in one go risks cracking. The heating can also help dry the screed before flooring, as our screed drying guide explains.
If heating is only one part of a larger renovation, the Faversham floor screeding page sets out how the other screeds fit around it.
Underfloor Heating Screed prices in Faversham
Liquid screed over underfloor heating: £20 to £35 per m² supplied and laid (trade2base, June 2026), so £700 to £1,230 for 35 m². trade2base gives these figures excluding VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your underfloor heating screed in Faversham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Underfloor Heating Screed from Slough to Faversham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 68.1 miles from Faversham, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include ME13, and Whitstable (6.5 miles), Sittingbourne (7 miles), Canterbury (8.5 miles) and Herne Bay (10.9 miles) are close by.
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