Liquid screed on Kidlington's post-war and later estates
The estates laid out on both sides of the main road after 1945, and the homes that followed through the 1970s, 80s and 90s, make up the bulk of Kidlington's housing. Their extensions tend to follow a pattern: open up the back wall, build out, and create one wide kitchen and family room. A big kitchen and family room like that is exactly where pouring beats laying by hand. The screed spreads across the space, levels itself out, and SR1 or SR2 regularity under a 2m straightedge comes without a fight.
Meeting the old floor is the main technical question. The new screed has to finish level with the existing concrete slab at the doorway, so the depth is worked back from that line. A floating liquid screed in a house starts from about 35mm, well under the 65mm a sand and cement floating screed needs, which leaves more room for insulation beneath it.
Newer homes suit it too. Just 11% of Kidlington's housing is from 2000 or later, and those houses normally went up with insulation already under the ground floor. Upper floor flats are another fit, because a hose up the stairs beats carrying sand and cement.
You can have it as a cement based pour or a calcium sulphate one. Our page on anhydrite flow screed in Kidlington goes through the calcium sulphate grades and their aftercare, and if pipes are going into the new kitchen, look at screed over underfloor heating too.
Pumping and drying on a Kidlington extension
Our mixer and pump stop on the street or your drive while the hose snakes down the side of the semi, or through the hall, out to the extension. A semi usually offers a route one way or the other, but a locked side gate, a shared drive or parked cars can slow the set-up, so mention them when you ask for a price. The hose can also climb a stairwell for an upper floor.
Get the extension prepared ahead of pour day. Insulation should be down, a membrane laid over it with taped joints, edge strip fixed around every wall and doorways dammed. Our screed pumping service page explains what happens on the day, and we can supply the build-up as part of the job if it is not yet in place.
Treat walking and drying as two different milestones. You can tread on it gently after 24 to 48 hours, but nobody lays flooring until a moisture reading shows the screed is inside the manufacturer's figure. For the first 40mm, think in terms of a day per millimetre, with each extra millimetre slower. Still undecided on a Kidlington extension? Weigh up the two in our liquid or sand and cement comparison before you decide.
Liquid Screed prices in Kidlington
Liquid screed: £24 to £31 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £960 to £1,240 for 40 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your liquid screed in Kidlington
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Kidlington
Kidlington is about 34.1 miles north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including OX5. The nearest towns to it are Oxford (5 miles), Bicester (7.8 miles), Witney (8.8 miles) and Abingdon-on-Thames (10.5 miles).
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