Which screed fits which kind of Horndean home
Close to half of Horndean's homes, 44%, are detached, and most of the floor work follows from that. Houses on the Hazleton estate and in the other 1960s and 1970s streets get extended, lose their garages to new rooms and have cold, uninsulated ground floors dug out and rebuilt.
Knocking a kitchen through into a new rear extension leaves one big open floor, and pumped liquid screed for a Horndean extension is normally the fastest way to get it flat. Poured in, it levels itself wall to wall, and the family can tread on it again 24 to 48 hours later.
Rebuilding a worn-out ground floor, or lifting a garage to house level, is different work. Small rooms, steps in level and anything that will get wet are easier with hand-laid sand and cement.
Plenty of those new floors get heating pipes too. Our page on covering underfloor heating pipes sets out how much screed goes over them and when the heating can first be run.
The old Gales Brewery is its own case. The buildings now hold shops and flats, so a floor there sits between two households and noise travelling through it has to be thought about. Getting it smooth is often a job for a levelling compound under the new flooring and not a fresh screed.
Some Horndean extension plans name a calcium sulphate grade; if yours does, our anhydrite page explains that particular material and the testing it goes through.
Homes in Horndean at a glance
Detached houses make up 44% of the 14,291 households in Horndean, followed by semi-detached houses at 28%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (40%), and a further 34% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Horndean | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 44% |
| Semi-detached houses | 28% |
| Terraced houses | 16% |
| Flats | 12% |
| Built before 1919 | 3% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 40% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 34% |
| 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 Horndean built-up area (E63006406).
Screeding services in Horndean
- Liquid ScreedWide rear extensions on detached Horndean houses suit pumped liquid screed: level, dense and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedHorndean's post-war ground floors, garage conversions and wet rooms often call for hand-laid sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedRebuilt ground floors in 1960s and 1970s Horndean houses often gain underfloor heating. We screed over the pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedIn Horndean, specified anhydrite is as likely to go into an extension or rebuilt ground floor as a new home. Each floor is tested dry before flooring goes on.
- Floor LevellingFormer Gales Brewery flats and extended Horndean homes made flat for LVT and tiles with self levelling compound, primed to suit the base.
- Latex ScreedOverboarded bathrooms and firmly stuck quarry tiles in Horndean homes, smoothed with two part latex screed for vinyl.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding in Horndean takes lips between bays, old glue and floor paint off slabs, dust extracted, ready for the next layer.
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 Horndean.
Timing a pour around a Horndean build
Screed lands halfway through a build, so book it that way. Get the windows and outside doors fitted first so the room is weathertight, finish any wet plaster, and have the heating engineer pressure test the pipes they laid. Once poured, the floor needs drying time before tiles, LVT or timber, and how long depends on which screed it is and how deep. Fix the screed date first and let the flooring fitter fall in behind it.
Then think about getting to the room. Pumped screed means a mixer and pump outside, close enough for the hose to reach a door. Most detached Horndean houses have a drive, which solves it. If yours faces a busy road or has nowhere to park off the street, mention the restrictions and any side access in your enquiry, and the morning will run to plan.
Not all of Horndean is houses. Being close to the A3(M) brought light industry to three main estates, with Hazleton Interchange, built in the early 1990s, the most recent. A change of tenant on one of those units can mean concrete repairs, grinding or a new topping, which our screeding for commercial units takes care of.
Screeding prices for Horndean 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 Horndean
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 Horndean
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 45.9 miles from Horndean, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include PO8, and Havant (3.7 miles), Emsworth (5.2 miles), Petersfield (7.3 miles) and Fareham (8.3 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Horndean include Cowplain, Lovedean and Wecock.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.