Choosing a screed for Guildford homes and buildings
Census 2021 recorded 77,870 people in the Guildford built-up area. Their homes cover every era without one dominating, so a street of 1930s semis can sit a short walk from 1970s houses or a new block of flats. Picking the right screed starts with the age of the house and what the floor is being asked to do.
For an extension on a semi, the new floor is usually open and wide, often with a kitchen and sometimes with heating. Pumped liquid screed for Guildford extensions suits that shape of room, and if pipes go in, our page on heated floors and screed depth explains pipe cover and the first heat-up.
Renovation is the other big category. In Charlotteville's Victorian houses, ground floors often have no damp proof membrane, and a refurbishment is the moment to replace them with an insulated slab and screed. Onslow Village homes from the 1920s raise similar questions. For that work, a hand-laid traditional sand and cement floor handles small rooms, wet areas and awkward thresholds.
Flats and new plots sometimes arrive with a calcium sulphate grade already on the drawings, which our anhydrite flow screed page covers in detail. Not every Guildford floor needs digging up, either: one that is firm but wavy can often take a skim of self levelling compound and go straight to flooring.
Homes in Guildford at a glance
The most common home in Guildford is a semi-detached house (33%), ahead of flats at 27%. The largest share of its housing, 26%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 21% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Guildford | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 25% |
| Semi-detached houses | 33% |
| Terraced houses | 14% |
| Flats | 27% |
| Built before 1919 | 16% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 19% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 26% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 21% |
| Built since 2000 | 18% |
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 Guildford built-up area (E63005577).
Screeding services in Guildford
- Liquid ScreedGuildford flats and wide semi extensions suit pumped liquid screed: flat to SR2, low shrinkage, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedCharlotteville's Victorian floors often lack a membrane. We dig out and hand-lay sand and cement screed in Guildford homes and garages.
- Underfloor Heating Screed1920s Onslow Village homes and Guildford semi extensions often gain underfloor heating. We screed over the pipes to the right depth.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedGuildford apartment drawings often name CA-C25-F5. We pour anhydrite screed to the grade, sand off the laitance and test moisture.
- Floor LevellingSurrey Research Park labs, Slyfield units and Guildford homes need flat floors before finishes, so floor levelling goes to SR1 or SR2.
- Latex ScreedQuarry tiles, overboarded timber and patchy concrete under Guildford kitchen refits get a thin latex screed before vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingSlyfield Industrial Estate units and Surrey Research Park offices in Guildford, stripped of glue, paint and ridges by concrete floor grinding.
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 Guildford.
Access, timing and commercial floors in Guildford
Planning a pour means thinking about the street as well as the room. The pump and mixer have to park near enough that the hose reaches your front door. The steep, granite-setted High Street shows how tight parts of the centre can be, so if a job is on a restricted or sloping street, tell us when you ask for a price.
Timing inside the build matters just as much. By the day we turn up, the roof and windows should keep the weather out, the wet plaster should be finished and any heating circuit should have passed its pressure test. How long the floor then takes to dry comes down to its thickness and the material, so give the flooring fitter a date that leaves room for it.
Business premises run to a different timetable. North of the centre, Bellfields, Stoughton and Slyfield mix homes and industry, and Slyfield Industrial Estate is the town's largest industrial and commercial park, where unit floors need concrete repair, grinding and high strength toppings. Surrey Research Park houses labs and offices that depend on flat, level floors. For units and offices like these, see screeding for commercial buildings. We cover every part of the town, including Burpham, Merrow, Park Barn, Westborough and Bushy Hill.
Screeding prices for Guildford 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 Guildford
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 Guildford
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 20.4 miles from Guildford, which lies to the south. Postcodes here include GU1, GU4, GU2 and GU3, and Godalming (4.1 miles), Woking (5.5 miles), Aldershot (8.1 miles) and Farnborough (8.5 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Guildford include Abbotswood, Bellfields, Burpham, Bushy Hill and Dennisville.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.