One Leatherhead floor at a time, by building age
Flats make up 43% of Leatherhead's homes, so a good deal of floor work here happens above ground level or inside a shared building. That shapes the screed as much as the room does.
Start with the oldest stock. Edwardian homes on roads like Fairfield Road and Highlands Road can have floors with no damp proof membrane. Renovating one of those Edwardian houses can mean digging the old floor out and starting again: a membrane, a layer of insulation and then a hand-laid sand and cement floor on top.
The inter-war houses around Givons Grove raise a different question. They are often extended at the rear, and the new slab, frequently with heating pipes in the screed, has to meet an older floor that may have no insulation. The Leatherhead underfloor heating screed page deals with that join.
Newer homes and flats are where flowing screeds come in. A pumped liquid screed over open floors suits large, continuous areas, and blocks built to a calcium sulphate specification are covered on our anhydrite flow screed page.
Poplar Road, the town's first council housing, and the post-war roads north of the centre suit extension and repair work, which might mean anything from a new floor in a back addition to patching a broken screed in a hallway. If the old screed in one of those hallways is solid but wavy, a skim of levelling compound may be the whole job.
Homes in Leatherhead at a glance
Of the 5,244 households in Leatherhead, 43% live in flats and 24% in semi-detached houses. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (21%), and a further 20% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Leatherhead | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 18% |
| Semi-detached houses | 24% |
| Terraced houses | 13% |
| Flats | 43% |
| Built before 1919 | 15% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 15% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 20% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 21% |
| Built since 2000 | 30% |
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 Leatherhead built-up area (E63005457).
Screeding services in Leatherhead
- Liquid Screed30% of Leatherhead homes date from 2000 on. Open floors, extensions and flats suit pumped liquid screed, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedEdwardian homes on Fairfield Road and Highlands Road may lack a damp proof membrane.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for heated extensions on Givons Grove inter-war houses in Leatherhead, with the right pipe cover and a level join.
- Anhydrite & Flow Screed38% of Leatherhead homes are purpose-built flats, where anhydrite specs matter. K & B pours CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 grades.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Esso, Unilever and Hyundai office refits and Swan Centre units in Leatherhead, to SR1 or SR2.
- Latex ScreedConverted flats and kitchen refits in Leatherhead often leave ply, old tiles or rough concrete under new vinyl. K & B lays latex screed.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding strips glue and coatings from Leatherhead office floors on former industrial sites and Swan Centre shop units.
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 Leatherhead.
Planning screed work around Leatherhead and its edges
Census 2021 counted 11,482 people in the Leatherhead built-up area, and we cover all of it: Fetcham Grove, Leatherhead Common, Lower Ashtead, Ashtead Common and Tyrrell's Wood are all part of the town. Postcodes here include KT22 and KT21.
Whatever the address, a pour needs the same groundwork. On the day we turn up, the room needs to be closed against the weather, the plastering and other wet work done, and any heating pipework already laid and pressure tested. After the pour, the floor is left to dry before anything goes on it, and that drying time is the stage most often squeezed when a programme slips.
Access shapes the day. For a pumped floor, the mixer has to park near enough for the hose to stretch to the room; in an upper-floor flat, the stairwell also has to be clear for the hose to climb. Mention parking restrictions, shared entrances and lift sizes when you ask for a price.
Offices and shops work differently again. Former industrial sites in the town were converted into business parks, now home to offices for firms such as Esso, Unilever and Hyundai. Office floors like these, and shop units in the Swan Centre, are priced as commercial screeding work.
Screeding prices for Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Leatherhead
Leatherhead is about 21.2 miles south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including KT22 and KT21. The nearest towns to it are Epsom (3.8 miles), Dorking (4.4 miles), Ewell (5.1 miles) and Reigate (6.8 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Leatherhead include Ashtead Common, Fetcham Grove, Givons Grove, Leatherhead Common and Lower Ashtead.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.