Extensions and knock-throughs off Stortford Road
The estates that grew as Great Dunmow spread along Stortford Road and around Woodlands Park lend themselves to rear extensions and knock-throughs. The typical result is one wide room where the old kitchen and a new extension meet, and that floor has to match the existing level.
Liquid screed helps on both counts. It is poured in one go across the whole area, so there are no joins between batches, and it reaches SR1 or SR2 surface regularity readily. Shrinkage is so slight that the long Stortford Road knock-through can go without most of the joints a hand-laid floor would need. The section is slimmer too: floating in a house it can be about 35mm, where sand and cement needs about 65mm, so the extension floor lines up with the old kitchen more easily.
If the extension is heated through the floor, the flowing screed fills in round each pipe without voids, so the room warms faster and the system runs more efficiently. Pipe cover and the heat-up are dealt with on our screed over underfloor heating in Great Dunmow page.
The newer schemes add more floors. Woodlands Park, the land south of Stortford Road built by Bloor Homes, St Mary's Park and Smiths Farm are all named growth areas, and on a new plot the drawings set the depth we pour to.
The material in the hose may be calcium sulphate or it may be cement based. Where the plot drawings ask for a calcium sulphate grade, our anhydrite flow screed grades page explains it.
Pumping to Great Dunmow houses and flats
Truck and pump stay on the road or drive, and only the hose comes in, through a door or window. Detached houses with a drive are straightforward. Terraces and flats need a bit more planning: where the truck can stand, how far the hose runs and whether it crosses shared areas. For an upstairs room the hose follows the staircase, a lot easier than carting tonnes of sand and cement up by hand.
Before we turn up, the walls need edge strip, the insulation needs a taped membrane over it and the doorways need damming. On the morning we go round and check each item.
Drying is a separate matter from walking on it. Count on a day per millimetre through the first 40mm and more after it, and only book the fitter once a moisture test is passed. For a side by side of the two main types, read liquid or sand and cement screed. For the same service in Bishop's Stortford, see our liquid screed in Bishop's Stortford page.
On a new plot, once the build-up is in place, the main job is fixing a date. Give us the week the house will be weathertight and we plan the pour around it.
Liquid Screed prices in Great Dunmow
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 Great Dunmow
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Great Dunmow
On the map, Great Dunmow sits east-north-east of Slough, about 49.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM6), next to Braintree (8.1 miles), Bishop's Stortford (8.7 miles), Sawbridgeworth (10 miles) and Chelmsford (10.4 miles).
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