Havant's post-war homes and the screeds they need
Census 2021 counted 46,964 people in the Havant built-up area. Terraces are the largest single house type, followed by semis, and post-war council building produced many of both. Leigh Park is the biggest example: Portsmouth City Council began building there in 1947 on land bought from the Fitzwygram family, and it was once one of the largest wholly council estates in Europe. Many of those homes are now privately owned after right to buy, and their owners are updating them.
Early post-war houses were built in a variety of ways, so the existing slab is checked before anything else. What comes next depends on the job.
A kitchen or bathroom refit on a sound floor may only need floor levelling before new flooring.
An original concrete floor being replaced to add insulation needs a new screed over a membrane and insulation, and hand-laid sand and cement screed in Havant suits smaller rooms and wet areas.
A single storey extension, especially an open-plan one, suits pumped liquid screed for Havant extensions. Putting wet heating into that new room? Read our Havant notes on heated screed for how deep it goes over the pipes and how the first warm-up should run.
New building brings its own specification. Barratt Homes is building on the former Procter and Gamble site in central Leigh Park, and new homes like these need modern screeds from the start, often in calcium sulphate, which is explained on the anhydrite flow screed page for Havant.
Homes in Havant at a glance
The most common home in Havant is a terraced house (34%), ahead of semi-detached houses at 30%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (68%), and a further 9% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Havant | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 15% |
| Semi-detached houses | 30% |
| Terraced houses | 34% |
| Flats | 20% |
| Built before 1919 | 5% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 4% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 68% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 9% |
| Built since 2000 | 15% |
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 Havant built-up area (E63006507).
Screeding services in Havant
- Liquid ScreedSingle storey extensions on Havant's post-war terraces and semis suit a pumped liquid screed that settles flat in one visit.
- Sand and Cement ScreedReplacing an original concrete floor in a Havant post-war semi? Hand-laid sand and cement over new insulation, 65mm deep.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for extensions and rebuilt ground floors in Havant's post-war homes, with full pipe cover and a slow heat-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for Havant new builds and apartments, poured to the specified CA grade, then sanded and moisture tested.
- Floor LevellingDunsbury Park units, Meridian Shopping and West Street refits need floors flat enough for new finishes.
- Latex ScreedHavant's post-war terraces and semis often reach a kitchen refit with old tiles or patchy concrete underfoot. Latex screed smooths it.
- Concrete Floor GrindingDunsbury Park units and West Street shops in Havant: our own team handles concrete floor grinding with dust extraction before new floors.
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 Havant.
Parking, access and pour timing around Havant
Getting screed into a house is a planning job. A pumped liquid screed needs a mixer lorry and pump parked close enough for the hose to reach the room, and on a street of terraces that usually means running the hose through the front of the house with the hallway protected. Sand and cement is mixed on site, so it needs a patch of ground for sand, cement and the mixer, plus a clear barrow route. If kerb space outside is limited, we agree where vehicles stand, and whether an early start would help, before the day is booked.
In the town centre, pedestrianised West Street and the shops around Meridian Shopping add their own limits for a retail refit, because vehicles cannot simply pull up outside a shop in a pedestrian street.
Timing is the other half. On a Havant extension we want the roof on and the windows in before we pour, with the plasterer's final skim and the flooring following after us. It can be walked on quickly, but drying runs at roughly 1 day per mm for the first 40mm and slower after that, so the flooring date should be set by a moisture reading rather than a guess. A builder who books the screed early, with the drying time written into the programme, avoids a kitchen fitter standing idle.
Screeding prices for Havant 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 Havant
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 Havant
On the map, Havant sits south-south-west of Slough, about 49 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PO9 and PO7), next to Emsworth (2.2 miles), Horndean (3.7 miles), Portsmouth (6.2 miles) and Gosport (7.4 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Havant include Bedhampton, Brockhampton, Crookhorn, Denvilles and Langstone.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
