Kettering's housing, street by street, and its screeds
Census 2021 counted 63,149 people in the Kettering built-up area. Semi-detached houses are the largest group at 35% of homes, but the age of a house tells you more about its floor.
The boot and shoe trade left two kinds of Victorian and Edwardian housing. Factory owners built large homes along the Headlands and Rockingham Road, while workers lived in terraced streets nearby. In the terraces off the town centre, the classic job is an old solid floor or rotten timber replaced with a membrane, insulation and a new screed, which is work for a hand-laid sand and cement screed in Kettering. The bigger period houses around the Headlands bring larger extensions and kitchen projects instead.
Post-war and later semis across the town are where garage conversions and rear extensions happen. A wide, open kitchen extension suits a pumped liquid screed, especially when heating is going in.
At the other end of the scale, Hanwood Park at Barton Point is a new neighbourhood with its own secondary school, and its homes are mostly specified with flowing screed and underfloor heating. That calls for the right calcium sulphate grade and careful screed over heating pipes.
Barton Seagrave, taken into the urban district in 1935, has spread towards Wicksteed Park with newer housing, and Ise Lodge is another established residential area. We cover those, Wadcroft, Little Cransley and the rest of the town.
Homes in Kettering at a glance
Of the 26,432 households in Kettering, 35% live in semi-detached houses and 24% in detached houses. The largest share of its housing, 23%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 23% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Kettering | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 24% |
| Semi-detached houses | 35% |
| Terraced houses | 24% |
| Flats | 16% |
| Built before 1919 | 19% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 14% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 23% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 23% |
| Built since 2000 | 19% |
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 Kettering built-up area (E63003016).
Screeding services in Kettering
- Liquid ScreedHanwood Park homes and big kitchen extensions in Kettering suit pumped liquid screed: self-levelling, SR2 flat, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedVictorian and Edwardian terraces off Kettering town centre often need solid floors relaid.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedRear extensions on Kettering's post-war semis and new Hanwood Park homes need the right screed over underfloor heating.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedApartment floors and new plots in Kettering: anhydrite screed poured to the CA grade on the spec, with drying advice in writing.
- Floor LevellingOffice refits at Kettering Business Park and joins between old houses and new extensions: self levelling compound to SR1 or SR2.
- Latex ScreedKitchen refits in Kettering's Victorian and Edwardian terraces can uncover old tiles or boards: latex screed readies them for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for distribution floors at Kettering Business Park and lips where extensions meet old 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 Kettering.
Kettering Business Park and larger floor areas
Kettering is a service and distribution centre as well as a market town. Kettering Business Park, developed by Buccleuch Property on the A43 and A6003 on the north side of town, combines offices, a hotel and large distribution warehouses. Buildings of that scale need flat, durable floors, and high strength screeds, repairs and grinding are the services that apply to them.
Office refits are a separate case. When a floor is changing from carpet to LVT or vinyl, the base underneath often needs levelling to SR1 or SR2 before the new finish will lie flat.
Whatever the building, timing follows the same discipline. The screed comes after the structure is weathertight and before the finish trades, so booking it early protects the drying period that follows. On a pumped job, the mixer needs somewhere to stand within a hose run of the entrance, so mention loading bays, gatehouse hours or parking restrictions when you ask for a price.
At home the same thinking applies on a smaller scale: windows in, wet plastering done, heating pipes tested, then the pour, then the wait.
Resin systems, polished concrete and power floated structural slabs are outside our trade. For a warehouse needing any of those, a specialist contractor is the right call.
Screeding prices for Kettering 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 Kettering
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 Kettering
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 60.1 miles from Kettering, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include NN16, NN15 and NN14, and Burton Latimer (3.3 miles), Desborough (4.9 miles), Corby (6.2 miles) and Wellingborough (6.9 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Kettering include Barton Seagrave, Little Cransley and Wadcroft.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
