Garage conversions and wet rooms in Hedge End
A garage conversion turns a cold concrete floor into a habitable one. Most garage slabs in these houses sit below the hall floor, have no insulation and were only ever meant for a car. Converting it means adding a membrane and insulation and raising the floor with a screed to meet the house. Sand and cement works well: mixed in small batches, it suits a single room, and the depth can be varied to take out a slope. For the full build-up, from slab to finished screed, read screeding a converted garage.
A wet room is the second place a Hedge End house needs cement screed. The floor of a walk-in shower must slope down to the drain and may be damp for long spells, so calcium sulphate is out. Hand-laid sand and cement can be formed to accurate falls and copes with water once cured. Utility rooms and downstairs cloakrooms fall into the same category.
Depths follow the build-up. Over insulation, with nothing bonding it down, a Hedge End house floor gets 65mm, and commercial floors 75mm. Stuck down to a slab in good condition, it can be just 25 to 40mm. Where early load or extra toughness is needed, the mix can be made stronger with a higher strength screed, or reinforced with fibres, which add £1 to £3 per m² on published figures. Leave out those additions and the 2026 UK published price sits between £18 and £25 per m².
Relaying older post-war floors in Hedge End
In Hedge End, 25% of homes date from 1945 to 1972, and 22% of all homes are terraced. Over the decades, some of those ground floors have cracked, dropped or stopped keeping the damp out. Patches rarely hold on a floor like that; it is better to take it out, put down a membrane and insulation, and screed over them. Floor preparation covers the break-out and cleaning, and insulation and membranes covers the layers beneath.
We pack the screed down hard and power float it until the top is dense and true. The trade-off is drying. Counting a day for every millimetre of the first 40mm, and slower going for the rest, a 65mm floor will not be ready for tiles, LVT or timber for many weeks. A quick drying screed mix, from £20 to £28 per m² on published figures, shortens that where the programme is tight.
For a house that is lived in during the work, a phased approach helps: one room broken out and screeded at a time, with the rest of the ground floor kept in use. We agree the order before starting, so the kitchen or the only downstairs toilet is not out of action for longer than it needs to be.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Hedge End
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 Hedge End
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 Hedge End
On the map, Hedge End sits south-south-west of Slough, about 51.4 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SO30 and SO31), next to Eastleigh (4.4 miles), Southampton (4.4 miles), Fareham (7 miles) and Totton (8.1 miles).
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