Flats, the Canal Basin and Riverview Park extensions
Liquid screed suits floors that are wide, regular and built up over insulation, where there is real area for the pump to cover quickly. In Gravesend that describes three kinds of job.
The first is flats. Regeneration on the waterfront continues, and the Canal Basin has approval for about 650 homes alongside light industrial and leisure space. New flats like these need flat, fast drying floors ready for finishes, laid over acoustic layers, and a pumped screed reaches every level from a single set-up in the street.
The second is newer housing. Homes built since 2000 make up 14% of the town, a period that includes Christianfields, completely rebuilt between 2007 and 2013. Houses of that age usually have insulated ground floors, and when they are extended the new floor can be poured to match.
The third is extensions to older houses. Kitchen and garden room extensions suit the post-war houses of Riverview Park and the inter-war streets of King's Farm, and a big open-plan room is where a pumped screed pays for itself. It self-levels across the whole floor and reaches SR1 or SR2 flatness readily, with no compacting by hand.
Some liquid screeds are bound with calcium sulphate and others with cement; the room decides which. The calcium sulphate grades have their own Gravesend anhydrite page.
Pumping and drying liquid screed in Gravesend
The lorry, mixer and pump stay outside. From there a hose carries the screed into the house, along a hallway or up flights of stairs to a flat. Without a drive, the lorry parks on the street while the pour lasts, a few hours, so flag any yellow lines, permit bays or awkward access in your enquiry. The route through the building needs to be clear, and we protect floors and frames along it.
A pumped floor is normally thinner than a hand-laid one. Floated over insulation, it can start near 35mm for a home or 40mm for commercial premises, where sand and cement would need 65mm and 75mm. On an extension, the spare depth can go into insulation while the floor still meets the kitchen at the right height. For all the options, see the screed thickness guide.
Being able to walk across it tells you nothing about dryness. Drying takes roughly a day a millimetre until 40mm and longer past that point, so test before any flooring goes down. If budget is the deciding factor, our floor screeding cost guide sets out the published 2026 rates.
Liquid Screed prices in Gravesend
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 Gravesend
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Gravesend
Gravesend is about 44.2 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including DA11 and DA12. The nearest towns to it are Northfleet (1 miles), Tilbury (1.3 miles), Grays (3.2 miles) and Swanscombe (3.7 miles).
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