Three kinds of Lewisham home, three floor jobs
Census 2021 counted 122,393 households in Lewisham, and for floor work the homes they live in fall into a few clear groups.
The Victorian terraces, from Brockley down to Hither Green, are the first group to think about. Terraced houses make up 26% of the borough's homes, and in these older ones a kitchen knock through or rear extension often uncovers an old floor with no membrane. Rebuilding it usually calls for a traditional sand and cement screed laid over new insulation and a damp proof membrane.
The inter-war Downham cottage homes are the second group. Extensions and replaced suspended floors are common there, and a new solid floor is a natural moment to add heating. How deep that heated floor ends up, and how to warm it for the first time, are both covered under heated screed for Lewisham homes.
The third group is the newest: flats and townhouses going up at Convoys Wharf, Catford and Lewisham Gateway. Those are built for pumped liquid screed over underfloor heating, with acoustic insulation between units, and the specification may name a calcium sulphate grade. Floors in buildings like these are normally poured to the depth and grade set out on the drawings.
Blackheath's period houses add a further strand of renovation work. Whichever group your house falls in, a solid floor that is merely out of true might want nothing more than a pour of levelling compound ahead of the new flooring, with no full screed at all.
Homes in Lewisham at a glance
Lewisham is mostly flats (56% of homes), with terraced houses next at 26%. The largest group of homes here was built before 1919 (35%), and a further 18% between the wars.
| Homes in Lewisham | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 3% |
| Semi-detached houses | 13% |
| Terraced houses | 26% |
| Flats | 56% |
| Built before 1919 | 35% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 18% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 16% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 13% |
| Built since 2000 | 18% |
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 London Borough of Lewisham (E09000023).
Screeding services in Lewisham
- Liquid ScreedNew flats and townhouses around Lewisham Gateway and Convoys Wharf are built for pumped liquid screed: flat, fast, walkable in a day or two.
- Sand and Cement ScreedKnock throughs in Lewisham's Victorian terraces often reveal floors with no membrane. K & B rebuilds them in sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedReplacing a suspended floor in a Downham cottage home? Add underfloor heating: we lay screed over wet pipes across Lewisham.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for Lewisham apartment floors at Lewisham Gateway or Convoys Wharf, pumped to the specified CA grade.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling to SR1 or SR2 for refits around Catford town centre and Lewisham Gateway, ready for LVT and tiles.
- Latex ScreedRefitting a kitchen in a Blackheath period house or a Lewisham conversion? Latex screed smooths ply, quarry tiles and old concrete.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Catford's regeneration area and new Convoys Wharf slabs in Lewisham, with dust extraction throughout.
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 Lewisham.
Planning a pour on Lewisham streets and sites
The order of trades decides when a screed can go down. Before a pour, the shell should be sealed against the weather, the plasterers finished and any heating pipework pressure tested. After the pour the screed dries before flooring can follow, so book it early and plan the kitchen fitter and tiler around it rather than squeezing the drying time at the end.
Access comes next. Pumping only works if the mixer can stop within hose length of your front door. On a terraced street that may mean the road outside, so mention parking controls, narrow side returns or shared alleys when you ask for a price. A hand-laid screed needs space to mix and a clear route to barrow materials through the house.
Commercial work runs on a different timetable. Convoys Wharf in Deptford, Lewisham Gateway and the Catford town centre sites are the main commercial and mixed use schemes in the borough, and Catford's regeneration area includes the Owen Luder shopping centre and Laurence House, the council's offices. Larger floor plates and fit outs on schemes like these are covered by our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Lewisham 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 Lewisham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Lewisham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 27.5 miles from Lewisham, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include SE26, SE6, SE3 and SE4, and Southwark (3.2 miles), Lambeth (4.2 miles), Greenwich (4.3 miles) and Tower Hamlets (4.9 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Lewisham include Bell Green, Bellingham, Blackheath, Brockley and Catford.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.