Ground floors and basements in Parsons Green and Brook Green
Parsons Green, Brook Green, Fulham and Ravenscourt Park are known for Victorian and Edwardian houses. In houses of that age the ground floor sometimes has to come out: a solid floor may have cracked or never had a membrane, and basement or ground floor extensions need new membranes before anything goes on top. Once the old floor is dug out, the new build-up is laid in order: hardcore or slab, membrane, insulation, then screed.
There are practical reasons for laying this kind of floor by hand. Batches are mixed on site for each area's depth, so where an old room steps into a new extension, one visit covers both. It is compacted by hand, which works in a narrow basement where a pump hose would struggle. The cement base it leaves is also what wet areas, and some finishes, insist on.
Depth follows the type of floor. Floated on insulation, it goes down 65mm thick in a house or flat and 75mm in commercial premises. Bonded straight onto solid concrete, 25 to 40mm can be enough, useful wherever head height is tight.
For floors that need extra toughness, fibre reinforced screed adds fibres to the mix at about £1 to £3 per m² on top. Before the new screed goes down, a damaged base may need concrete floor repair first.
Wet rooms and drying times in Hammersmith conversions
The borough's converted flats, carved out of Victorian terraces, need bathrooms, shower rooms and kitchens fitted into old houses. Water in a wet room or walk-in shower has to run off to the drain, so the floor is laid to a fall. Hand-laid screed can be trowelled to those falls, and getting wet does it no harm, unlike calcium sulphate.
The trade-off is drying. Expect about a day of drying per millimetre for the first 40mm and slower progress after, which leaves a 65mm floor several weeks away from any finish that is sensitive to moisture. Our screed drying times guide goes through it in more detail. Where the floor layer's date is already pencilled in, our quick drying screed narrows the gap.
A Fulham flat with only a small shower room to screed rarely justifies a pump, and hand-laid screed at £18 to £25 per m² (2026 UK prices) generally comes in cheaper. The same approach applies next door, as our page on sand and cement screed in Kensington and Chelsea explains.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Hammersmith and Fulham
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Hammersmith and Fulham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement Screed from Slough to Hammersmith and Fulham
On the map, Hammersmith and Fulham sits east of Slough, about 18.6 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including W6, NW10, W3 and SW6), next to Kensington and Chelsea (1.2 miles), Westminster (2.8 miles), Wandsworth (3.7 miles) and Brent (4.3 miles).
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