Finding the right floor for each part of Grays
Start with the house and the screed usually follows.
Little Thurrock and Stifford Clays have many inter-war semis, and semis overall make up 36% of the town's homes. Their original ground slabs are commonly cold and uninsulated, and extension floors are the other regular need. For a hand-laid sand and cement screed for older floors, small rooms and wonky edges are no problem once the old slab is out and insulation is in. Where a rear extension is being joined to the kitchen, a pumped liquid screed for open-plan rooms covers the whole area in a day.
Chafford Hundred's later twentieth century houses suit kitchen refits. A new kitchen there may need its floor levels corrected rather than replaced, which is a job for a thin coat of compound; see levelling floors before new flooring.
In the town centre, flats bring a different set of demands, including acoustic screed and levelling for residential fit-outs. New blocks from Thurrock Council's Grays South project will add to them. Apartment floors like these may be specified in calcium sulphate, covered on our anhydrite flow screed page.
Chadwell St Mary and Thurrock Park are covered on the same basis. Tell us the age of the house, what is going on the floor and whether heating pipes are involved, and we will recommend a screed before pricing it.
Homes in Grays at a glance
Of the 16,943 households in Grays, 36% live in semi-detached houses and 27% in flats. By age, 25% of properties date from the wars, the biggest single group, with 25% built between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Grays | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 12% |
| Semi-detached houses | 36% |
| Terraced houses | 24% |
| Flats | 27% |
| Built before 1919 | 14% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 25% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 23% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 25% |
| Built since 2000 | 12% |
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 Grays built-up area (E63004955).
Screeding services in Grays
- Liquid ScreedGrays flats and extended inter-war semis suit pumped liquid screed: one pour, a flat finish and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedCold slabs under Grays semis in Little Thurrock and Stifford Clays are often replaced with hand-laid sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedReplacing a cold slab in a Grays semi is the moment to add underfloor heating. We lay liquid or sand and cement screed over the pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedTown centre flats and Grays South blocks often call for anhydrite flow screed. We pour CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 grades to the drawings.
- Floor LevellingChafford Hundred kitchen refits and town centre fit-outs in Grays need a flat base. Floor levelling with compound lets LVT or tiles sit true.
- Latex ScreedFirm quarry tiles in a bathroom or plywood over boards in an older Grays semi: a thin latex screed readies them for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingWarehouse slabs off Thurrock Park Way and glue left under Grays kitchen floors, cleared by concrete floor grinding with dust extraction.
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 Grays.
Parking, access and timing a pour in Grays
Access decides how a screed is delivered. A semi with a front drive leaves room for a pump truck or a mixer close to the door. A flat near the High Street does not, and the High Street level crossing can make timing a delivery there more awkward. Tell us where a vehicle can stand, whether there are loading restrictions and how far the material has to travel once it is off the lorry.
The order of work matters too. Screed goes down once the shell is weathertight and any pipes are fixed and tested. Liquid screed is walkable within 24 to 48 hours, but neither type is ready for flooring until it has dried, so leave that time in the programme.
The other side of Grays is commercial, and it is a big one. Thurrock Park Way beside Tilbury Docks, the Globe Industrial Estate on Towers Road and the Waterglade Industrial Park on Eastern Avenue hold warehouse space where high strength screeds, repairs and floor grinding come up. Those floors are handled under our commercial screeding service and priced after a site visit.
Screeding prices for Grays 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 Grays
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 Grays
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 42 miles from Grays, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include RM17 and RM18, and Tilbury (2 miles), Swanscombe (2.6 miles), Northfleet (2.9 miles) and Gravesend (3.2 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Grays include Little Thurrock and Thurrock Park.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.