Getting the pump hose into Gosport homes
Because liquid screed comes ready mixed and goes through a hose, it can reach rooms a long way from the lorry, and on the peninsula that counts for a lot. Just 10% of Gosport homes are detached, so in many houses there is no side path and the hose comes in through the front door and along the hall. We cover that route, settle where the lorry parks and check the parking situation ahead of the pour.
Upstairs rooms are no different, since the hose can be fed up the staircase or passed in at a first floor window. On a building as tall as the new 10-storey block at Rowner, pumping is the only sensible way to screed the upper floors, as nobody has to carry wet material up by hand. In a terrace, a first floor bathroom or loft room can be done without wheeling barrows through the house.
Once the hose is in place, the pour itself is quick. One visit can cover an extension's ground floor or a whole apartment level. There is a calcium sulphate version and a cement version of liquid screed; the rooms in your house and the floor finish you have chosen settle which one we pump. For the calcium sulphate material and how it is specified, see our Gosport anhydrite flow screed notes. Still torn between a pump and a barrow? Our liquid versus hand-laid screed guide lays out the differences, and the kit itself is described under screed pumping.
Depth, flatness and drying for Gosport extensions
A pumped floor can go down with less depth than a hand-laid one. On a bed of insulation, about 35mm is enough in a home, and commercial buildings start at 40mm. Where pipes run underneath, 25mm or more must sit above them, so the whole layer comes to around 45 to 50mm. Those saved millimetres help at the back of a Gosport semi, where the new floor must line up with the old house and leave no step.
As it settles itself flat, a liquid floor gets to SR1 or SR2 under a 2m straightedge without a fight, and LVT, tiles or engineered wood need little more preparation. Shrinkage is low too, so a big open-plan kitchen needs only a handful of joints, where hand-laid screed of the same size would need many more.
Being able to walk on it and it being dry are two separate things. Feet are usually fine after 24 to 48 hours, yet flooring waits for a dry screed, and that takes roughly 1 day per mm up to 40mm, then longer. Good airflow speeds it up. Of Gosport's homes, 12% date from 2000 or later. Those newer houses tend to have level, insulated ground floors, so a liquid screed in a new back room can be brought very close to their height. For a week by week picture, read how long screed takes to dry.
Liquid Screed prices in Gosport
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 Gosport
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Gosport
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 55 miles from Gosport, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include PO12 and PO13, and Portsmouth (1.4 miles), Fareham (4.6 miles), Havant (7.4 miles) and Emsworth (8.9 miles) are close by.
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