Grades and products for Hastings apartments and new plots
Only 9% of homes in Hastings were built since 2000. Regeneration has centred on the Priory Quarter and Station Plaza. On any new-build floor, the specification sets the screed, and with calcium sulphate that means a named grade. A conversion of a tall house into flats may name one too, particularly where the new floors sit over acoustic insulation.
The grades come from the European standard for screed materials, where C is compressive and F flexural strength in N/mm2. Light domestic traffic is what CA-C20-F4 is made for. Most houses, flats and offices are laid in CA-C25-F5. For floors that take more punishment, CA-C30-F6 is the step up. Whatever grade the drawings give is the grade that goes in, and for a self-build without one we suggest a grade that fits the rooms and the floor finish.
If the programme needs quicker drying or the floor has to be thinner, an alpha hemihydrate product may be specified. Every such product has its own sheet, and its figures for depth and drying are the ones we follow.
Shrinkage in calcium sulphate is very low, so an open-plan flat can be poured in wide bays with hardly any joints. Door thresholds and the edges of heating zones still get one, and the bay and joint plan is settled before pouring starts. If you want the chemistry behind it, the anhydrite screed guide covers it. Where an older floor needs work first, our floor preparation service covers it.
Laitance and moisture checks on Hastings anhydrite floors
While calcium sulphate dries, a thin, weak skin called laitance builds up on top. If flooring adhesive goes on top of it, the floor is only as strong as that crust. When the moisture has fallen far enough, we sand that skin away and prime with a product made to work on calcium sulphate.
Moisture testing follows. Flooring makers often allow less moisture in calcium sulphate than in cement, so a reading that would pass for a sand and cement floor may fail here. Our hygrometer readings are handed over to you. With heating in the floor, using it to dry the screed is usually possible from about 7 days, warming it in gradual steps.
Anywhere that might get wet needs a different screed. In a flat, that means shower rooms, wet rooms and any utility floor at risk of leaks, which need a cement based flowing screed or sand and cement for Hastings wet rooms instead. Both can be laid on the same visit, so a flat with a shower room and an open living area still gets the right material in each room.
Anhydrite & Flow Screed prices in Hastings
Liquid flowing screed (which includes anhydrite): £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 anhydrite and flow screed in Hastings
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Anhydrite & Flow Screed from Slough to 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.
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