Braunstone extensions and Beaumont Leys ground floors
Around Braunstone, the post-war semis often get a kitchen extension or have the garage converted. Extending at the back often creates one long kitchen, dining and family room, and that shape suits liquid screed well. Poured in one go, the screed spreads over the whole floor, levels itself and gets to SR1 or SR2 flatness without fuss. Because the pump delivers the mix continuously, a long floor is laid as one pour rather than worked across in sections by hand.
Beaumont Leys was laid out in the 1970s as a mix of private and council housing, and its larger modern homes are the kind that suit liquid screed laid over wet underfloor heating. A flowing screed surrounds the pipes completely, so there are no air pockets, and the heat reaches the surface faster.
Depth is part of the appeal. Floated over insulation in a home, liquid screed begins at about 35mm, roughly half what sand and cement needs, which helps the extension line up with the existing house without a step.
You can get liquid screed with a calcium sulphate binder or a cement one. Which kind suits depends on the room and on what finish goes over it, and the calcium sulphate kind gets its own explanation on our Leicester anhydrite flow screed page. For pipe cover and warm-up rules, see screed over underfloor heating.
Pumping into Leicester flats and terraced streets
New apartments and flat conversions, such as those planned at Waterside, need floors that let other trades follow on quickly. A pumped screed covers a whole flat in one visit, and a floor that can be walked on within a day or two keeps the programme moving.
The hands-on part is getting the hose from the street to the room. Lorry and pump stay at the kerb while the hose goes in at the entrance, down corridors and up the stairwells. In a block, we need to know the floor level, whether there is a lift or a stair core, and where the lorry can stand. On a terraced street, a clear front hall or a rear alley makes the route easier.
Before any screed goes in, the room needs sealing, with edge strip round each wall, taped joints in the membrane over the insulation and a dam at each doorway. That build-up gets checked by us before the pump starts.
Walking on the floor and laying flooring on it are different milestones. Expect about one day of drying per millimetre over the first 40mm, and slower after. A screed can look dry and still fail a moisture test, and our screed drying guide explains why. To weigh the two methods against each other, read pumped versus hand-laid floors.
Liquid Screed prices in Leicester
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 Leicester
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Leicester
On the map, Leicester sits north-north-west of Slough, about 78.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including LE1, LE2, LE3 and LE7), next to Earl Shilton (8.7 miles), Hinckley (12 miles), Lutterworth (12.7 miles) and Market Harborough (13.9 miles).
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