Which screed suits which part of Lewes
Census 2021 recorded 16,066 people in the Lewes built-up area, and the floors under them range from houses on twittens that trace back to Anglo Saxon times to the new homes planned at the Phoenix by the riverside. The screed follows the building, never the other way round.
In the historic centre, Cliffe and Southover, listed and conservation area houses need a light touch. Build ups are often thin or breathable, old flagstone or boarded floors may be kept and levelled over, and retained heritage fabric limits what can be dug out. Small rooms like these usually suit hand-laid sand and cement screed in Lewes, placed a section at a time.
Behind many Victorian and Edwardian fronts, the kitchen or back addition sits on bare earth with no membrane beneath it, so doing one up usually means taking the old floor out, putting down insulation and a membrane, and laying fresh screed.
Over in South Malling, the post-war semis make life easier. Their extensions and kitchen refits are normally built off concrete slabs, and once the back of the house becomes one big open room, a pumped liquid floor suits it: the screed finds its own level and takes foot traffic after 24 to 48 hours. Putting heating pipes into that room? Then the depth of screed over them, and how gently the heating is brought up afterwards, count for more than whose product is used, so have a look at screed over heating pipes before the pipework is laid.
The homes in Landport, Wallands Park, St Anne's and Cuilfail are covered in the same way: we look at the age of the building and what is under the floor before recommending anything.
Homes in Lewes at a glance
Terraced houses make up 35% of the 7,127 households in Lewes, followed by semi-detached houses at 29%. The largest share of its housing, 30%, was built before 1919, and 29% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Lewes | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 10% |
| Semi-detached houses | 29% |
| Terraced houses | 35% |
| Flats | 24% |
| Built before 1919 | 30% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 13% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 29% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 21% |
| Built since 2000 | 7% |
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 Lewes built-up area (E63006461).
Screeding services in Lewes
- Liquid ScreedSouth Malling semis with slab-built extensions suit pumped liquid screed. We pour it across Lewes, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedVictorian terraces in Lewes often hide kitchens laid on bare earth. We dig out and hand-lay sand and cement screed to 65mm.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedAdding underfloor heating to a Lewes period house leaves little floor height. We screed over your pipes with the right cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite screed for Lewes apartments and new plots, poured from CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 with laitance advice handed over in writing.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling over old flagstones, boarded floors and Malling Brooks unit refits in Lewes, with compound to SR1 for LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedSouth Malling kitchen refits and boarded floors in older Lewes houses: latex screed over plywood or sound tiles before vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding removes old glue, paint and high spots from Malling Brooks unit slabs and Lewes house floors, with extraction.
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 Lewes.
Access, parking and timing a pour in Lewes
How the materials reach the room decides how the day is planned. Liquid screed arrives in a mixer lorry and is pumped through a hose, so the lorry needs somewhere to stand within reach of the house for a few hours. For a terrace with no side access, or a house reached along a twitten, the hose runs through the house and the parking space is arranged ahead of time. Sand and cement is mixed on site, which needs room for sand and bags but no large vehicle waiting outside.
Getting the date right is just as important as getting the lorry close. In a Lewes renovation we pour once the house is weathertight, and ahead of the kitchen fitters, the joiner and the flooring. Drying takes roughly a day per millimetre for the first 40mm and slower after that, so a thick floor in an old, damp building needs weeks set aside in the programme, not days.
New building works differently. Apartment floors and new build plots, which in Lewes means schemes such as the Phoenix on the former Phoenix Industrial Estate, are usually poured to a written specification, and our page on anhydrite flow screed grades explains how calcium sulphate is specified and finished. Whatever the job, it is surveyed first and priced in writing, and the price does not move once agreed.
Screeding prices for Lewes 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 Lewes
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Lewes
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 53.7 miles from Lewes, which lies to the south-south-east. Postcodes here include BN7, and Peacehaven (5.4 miles), Newhaven (5.7 miles), Brighton and Hove (7.6 miles) and Uckfield (7.6 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Lewes include Cliffe, Cuilfail, Landport, South Malling and Southover.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.