Old Town to Hollington: matching screed to Hastings homes
Hastings has a medieval core in the Old Town, a planned nineteenth century resort in St Leonards-on-Sea and twentieth century suburbs spread across Ore, Silverhill, Hollington, West St Leonards and Bulverhythe. Census 2021 counted 91,497 people in the built-up area. Those three layers ask very different things of a floor.
In St Leonards and around the Old Town, plenty of Victorian terraces and villas were built with solid ground floors and no damp proof membrane, and others have timber floors that have given way. The usual fix is to take the old floor up and put in an insulated slab with fresh screed over it. On a sloping plot with narrow rooms, that screed usually works out simplest as a hand-laid sand and cement floor.
In Hollington and Ore, the post-war and later homes see more extension and kitchen work. A big new floor out the back is a good match for pumped liquid screed. Putting heating in it? Pipe cover and the first warm-up are dealt with under underfloor heating screed in Hastings.
Tall houses split into flats bring their own jobs: acoustic screeds between homes and levelling over old boards before new flooring, which is where floor levelling comes in. Where new apartment floors call for a named calcium sulphate grade, the Hastings anhydrite flow screed page explains what is involved.
The common thread is to find out what is under the floor first. On a damp hillside plot, getting the membrane and insulation right is no less important than the screed laid over them.
Homes in Hastings at a glance
Of the 40,680 households in Hastings, 35% live in flats and 22% in semi-detached houses. By age, 40% of properties date from before 1919, the biggest single group, with 20% built between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Hastings | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 19% |
| Semi-detached houses | 22% |
| Terraced houses | 22% |
| Flats | 35% |
| Built before 1919 | 40% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 11% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 20% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 19% |
| Built since 2000 | 9% |
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 Hastings built-up area (E63006439).
Screeding services in Hastings
- Liquid ScreedPumped liquid screed for Hastings flats and kitchen extensions in Hollington and Ore, levelling itself to SR1 or SR2.
- Sand and Cement ScreedFailed solid and timber floors in St Leonards and Old Town houses, relaid with an insulated slab and sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedRetrofitting underfloor heating in an older Hastings house, or heating a new extension in Ore? We screed it with the right pipe cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite screed for Hastings apartment floors and new plots, poured to CA-C25-F5 or the grade specified, then sanded and tested.
- Floor LevellingLevelling over old boards in Hastings flat conversions and unit refits at Castleham and Ponswood, flat to SR1 for LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen refits in Hollington and Ore and overboarded floors in Hastings flat conversions: latex screed laid thin before vinyl or lino.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for worn 1960s slabs at Ponswood and units on Castleham and Churchfields in Hastings, 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 Hastings.
Access, timing and commercial floors around Hastings
Many older Hastings houses stand on steep ground. For a liquid pour, the hose has to stretch from wherever the mixer and pump can park to the room itself, and with a terrace on a hill that can mean a long run through the house or up several flights. Tell us about gradients, parking restrictions and steps when asking for a price, so we can plan the route and the kit.
Timing follows the build. Hold the pour until the room is weathertight and plastered and the heating engineer has fitted and pressure tested any pipework. Drying then sets the date for the flooring fitter, so plan them after the screed rather than before it.
Commercial floors are a separate trade. Hastings Borough Council lets industrial units on the Castleham, Churchfields and Ponswood estates, and Castleham also has business centres on Stirling Road. Ponswood was the town's first industrial estate, started in the 1950s and largely built in the 1960s, so worn concrete floors there suit repair, grinding or a new wearing screed. That work is covered by our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Hastings 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 Hastings
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 Hastings
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 70.8 miles from Hastings, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include TN34, TN37, TN35 and TN38, and Bexhill-on-Sea (4.9 miles), Hailsham (14.2 miles), Eastbourne (14.7 miles) and Polegate (14.9 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Hastings include Baldslow, Belmont, Blacklands, Bohemia and Broomgrove.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
