Gloucester homes, from Tredworth terraces to edge estates
Census 2021 counted 118,562 people in the Gloucester built-up area, spread across districts such as Kingsholm, Tredworth, Abbeymead, Barnwood, Hucclecote, Longlevens, Matson and Tuffley, with Quedgeley holding its own town council inside the city. The floor under any of those homes depends far more on its age than its address.
Start with the oldest. Pre-1919 terraces often have solid ground floors with no membrane beneath them, and when those fail the floor is broken out, insulated and rescreeded. That is usually hand-laid work, set out on our sand and cement screed page for Gloucester.
Post-war semis are the next layer, and they account for much of the extension and open-plan kitchen work in the city. Behind a post-war semi, the new extension is an easy room for a pumped liquid pour. The original kitchen next door may be solid yet out of true, and there a skim of self levelling compound gets it flat enough for LVT or tiles.
On the edge of the city, new build estates typically put underfloor heating under a liquid screed, laid plot by plot. How deep the screed sits over those pipes, and how the heating is first brought up to temperature, is covered under screeding over Gloucester underfloor heating.
Then there are the flats. The Victorian warehouses at Gloucester Docks were restored from the 1980s into flats, shops and bars, and King's Quarter is adding apartments around The Forum. Floors in buildings like those need thin screeds and acoustic layers between storeys, and where the specification names calcium sulphate, our anhydrite flow screed page takes over.
Homes in Gloucester at a glance
Of the 49,719 households in Gloucester, 40% live in semi-detached houses and 20% in detached houses. The largest share of its housing, 25%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 24% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Gloucester | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 20% |
| Semi-detached houses | 40% |
| Terraced houses | 19% |
| Flats | 19% |
| Built before 1919 | 20% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 11% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 24% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 25% |
| Built since 2000 | 20% |
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 Gloucester built-up area (E63004269).
Screeding services in Gloucester
- Liquid ScreedNew estates on the edge of Gloucester pour liquid screed plot by plot.
- Sand and Cement ScreedGloucester's pre-1919 terraces often have failed solid floors with no membrane. We dig out, insulate and hand lay a sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedEstates on Gloucester's edge lay underfloor heating under screed plot by plot.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedDock conversions and King's Quarter apartments need thin screeds over acoustic layers.
- Floor LevellingOffice fit-outs at The Forum and Waterwells Business Park need flat bases, as do post-war kitchens.
- Latex ScreedOld quarry tiles, overboarded landings and patched kitchen slabs in Gloucester homes: thin latex screed for vinyl, LVT and carpet.
- Concrete Floor GrindingFit-outs at Waterwells Business Park and lifted vinyl in Gloucester homes start with a clean slab.
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 Gloucester.
Access and programme in Gloucester city streets
Wherever the floor is in Gloucester, a pump needs somewhere to stand. Everything we bring stays out on the road, and only a hose comes through the front door. A suburban drive makes that easy. In a terraced street, or at an apartment block where the loading area is shared, tell us about parking bays, permits and lift or stair access when you ask for a price, and we will plan the pour around them.
Then there is the date. Screed comes after the roof, windows and wet plaster, and before the flooring. Any heating loops need fitting and a pressure test before we come. After the pour, tiles or timber wait until the floor has dried, so pencil in your flooring fitter once our date is fixed.
Offices and business units are priced differently from houses. Waterwells Business Park at Quedgeley, close to junction 12 of the M5, and the offices at The Forum both call for commercial screeds, levelling and raised floor bases. Those are priced as commercial jobs, with the programme agreed around the building's other trades.
Screeding prices for Gloucester 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 Gloucester
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.
Reaching Gloucester
On the map, Gloucester sits west-north-west of Slough, about 72.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GL1, GL4, GL2 and GL3), next to Cheltenham (7.7 miles), Stroud (8.3 miles), Tewkesbury (9.6 miles) and Cirencester (15.7 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Gloucester include Abbeydale, Barnwood, Barton, Coney Hill and Elmbridge.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
