Which screed fits which kind of Horley home
Census 2021 recorded 27,067 people in the Horley built-up area, and their homes fall into a few clear groups. Each group tends to bring its own kind of floor job.
Semi-detached houses make up 33% of the town's homes, and the semis of the 1950s to the 1990s are where extensions, garage conversions and tired ground floors come up. A screed that has cracked or sounds hollow underfoot has to be dealt with before new flooring goes on top. A converted garage, a patched hallway or a small utility room usually suits hand-laid sand and cement screed, which copes with awkward shapes and changes in level.
Westvale Park works the other way round. Its new houses already have screed laid over insulation and underfloor heating, so when an owner adds a garden room or conservatory, the new floor should behave like the rest of the house. Our page on heated screed floors in Horley covers pipe cover and the heat-up schedule for that kind of addition.
Wide, open floors, such as a kitchen extension or a complete new plot, usually go faster with pumped liquid screed for larger rooms. Where a drawing names a calcium sulphate grade, read about anhydrite flow screed specifications before the pour date is fixed.
Flats are their own case. The build-up between floors has to meet sound insulation requirements, so the screed depth, the resilient layer beneath it and the edge detail are settled with the designer first.
Homes in Horley at a glance
The most common home in Horley is a semi-detached house (33%), ahead of detached houses at 26%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (29%), and a further 27% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Horley | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 26% |
| Semi-detached houses | 33% |
| Terraced houses | 16% |
| Flats | 23% |
| Built before 1919 | 8% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 7% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 27% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 29% |
| Built since 2000 | 29% |
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 Horley (Reigate and Banstead) built-up area (E63005746).
Screeding services in Horley
- Liquid ScreedWith 29% of Horley homes built since 2000, open floors suit pumped liquid screed: level, dense and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedGarage conversions and cracked screeds in Horley's 1950s to 1990s semis are often hand-laid in sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedWestvale Park garden rooms and heated Horley extensions need the right cover over underfloor heating pipes and a slow heat-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedFor Horley flats and new build plots we pour anhydrite flow screed from CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6, sanded and tested.
- Floor LevellingOffice fit outs near Gatwick, shop refits and uneven Horley homes: floor levelling to SR1 or SR2 for LVT, vinyl and tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen and bathroom refits in Horley's 1970s to 1990s homes often need a latex coat over ply or old tiles before vinyl.
- Concrete Floor GrindingUnits by Gatwick that change tenant leave old glue, paint and ridges behind. Concrete floor grinding clears Horley slabs, dust extracted.
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 Horley.
Booking a pour and parking a pump in Horley
On a Horley extension or garage conversion, screeding comes partway through the programme, not as the finishing touch. By the time our van pulls up, the shell has to keep the weather out, the wet plaster must be done, and your heating installer should have fixed down and pressure tested any underfloor pipes. Then the new floor has to dry out before the tiler, joiner or vinyl fitter starts, so leave that gap in the diary instead of trying to shrink it.
When the floor is pumped, we set the mixer and pump up as near your front door as we can get them and feed a hose in to the room. A driveway makes that easy. If the house relies on street parking, or the room is on an upper floor of a block, mention it when you ask for a price so the hose route is planned before the day.
Commercial jobs run to their own timetable. Whenever a unit on the business parks or in the shopping centre near Gatwick is refitted, there is floor work to do: offices need a flat base for their new finishes, warehouse and trade units can need concrete repair, and shop refits often call for a fast drying screed so trading can resume quickly. For a refit, levelling an existing office or shop floor is often the first step, and larger areas are priced as commercial screeding.
Screeding prices for Horley 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 Horley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Horley
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 32.5 miles from Horley, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include RH6, and Crawley (4.1 miles), Redhill (4.8 miles), Reigate (4.9 miles) and East Grinstead (7.5 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Horley include Meath Green.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.