Liquid screed on the Grange and Jackmans estates
Kitchen and extension floors are the typical jobs on the post-war estates, and a wide new room that opens into the existing kitchen is good ground for liquid screed. It flows around corners and finds its own level, so a large L-shaped room is poured in one visit without the joints a hand-laid screed would need.
Depth is the main planning point. Liquid screed floating on insulation in a home can go down at about 35mm, where sand and cement would want roughly 65mm, and the depth saved can go to the insulation. The new floor has to meet the existing kitchen at the same finished height, so levels are set before the pour and checked across the doorway.
Flatness comes easily. Laid well, it reaches SR1 or SR2 when checked with a 2m straightedge, useful if the new kitchen is getting LVT or big format tiles. It is not quick to dry, though: allow roughly a day for each millimetre up to 40mm, and trust a hygrometer over the calendar before the flooring goes on.
There are two broad types of liquid screed, calcium sulphate and cement based, and the right one depends on the room and whether it may get wet. If you are torn between this and a hand-laid floor, our comparison of the two screed types sets them side by side. If a specification names a CA grade, the page on anhydrite flow screed specification covers it in detail.
Pump access and upper floors in Letchworth
Flats make up 21% of Letchworth's homes, and an upper floor flat changes the pour. We leave the pump down on the road and run the hose up the stairwell or in through a window, so we need to hear which floor the flat is on, how the hose would get there and what the managing agent allows. Protecting communal areas is part of the plan.
For houses, the pump and lorry need somewhere to stand for a few hours close to the property. Where parking outside is tight, tell us and we will plan the hose run and the timing around it. Published 2026 figures put pump hire at £300 to £600 per day, which is part of why very small rooms are often better done by hand.
Liquid screed itself runs at £24 to £31 per m² on that same 2026 list, where sand and cement sits at £18 to £25. On a large open extension the faster laying and the shorter wait before walking on it often balance that difference. Outside the town, we also lay liquid screed in Hitchin and Baldock.
Liquid Screed prices in Letchworth
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 Letchworth
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Letchworth
On the map, Letchworth sits north-north-east of Slough, about 35.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SG6), next to Baldock (2 miles), Stotfold (2.7 miles), Hitchin (2.9 miles) and Stevenage (5.3 miles).
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