Older Horsham floors and the Causeway
The Causeway, lined with houses from the 17th to the early 19th century and London plane trees, is Horsham's oldest quarter. Floors in buildings of that age were not designed for a modern build-up of insulation and 65mm of screed. Raising the floor can mean trimming doors, losing skirting details and stepping up at thresholds, none of which suits a historic building. A careful, low build-up approach is the starting point.
Sand and cement gives that flexibility. Bonded with an agent onto concrete that is still sound, it can go down at just 25 to 40mm, a fraction of what a floating layer needs. It can be varied in depth from room to room to meet old thresholds. And because it is mixed in small batches on site, there is no need for a pump lorry outside a historic frontage. Our page on bonded screed explains when the base is sound enough for it.
Then there are Horsham's terraces, 18% of all homes in the town. When the old solid floor in one of them gives up, it normally comes out altogether and is rebuilt with insulation, a membrane and fresh sand and cement on top, 65mm deep when floating in a house and 75mm in a commercial building.
Roffey and Littlehaven are much older settlements now part of Horsham. Wherever the house is, the existing floor needs looking at on its own terms before a screed is chosen.
Horsham wet rooms, garages and drying times
Certain rooms call for cement however old or new the property is. A wet room has to be laid to falls so water reaches the drain, which only a hand-laid screed can do, and calcium sulphate products should not be used where the floor may get wet. A garage that still takes a car, or one being turned into a room, needs a cement floor that can take load early. Turning a garage into a room is covered step by step in our garage screeding guide.
The mix can be adapted. Adding fibres costs £1 to £3 per m² and helps the floor resist cracking, while a rapid drying additive brings the flooring date forward.
That wait is the main trade-off. Expect about a day for each millimetre across the first 40mm, then a slower rate, which puts timber or vinyl on a 65mm floor some weeks away. Tiles are more tolerant, but still need a moisture test. If the programme cannot absorb that, quick drying screed is worth pricing.
A solid floor that is simply uneven might not need screeding at all, and our Horsham floor levelling may be the cheaper fix.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Horsham
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 Horsham
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 Horsham
On the map, Horsham sits south-south-east of Slough, about 35.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RH12 and RH13), next to Crawley (7.1 miles), Horley (10.4 miles), Haywards Heath (10.9 miles) and Burgess Hill (11.2 miles).
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