Matching screed to Lymington homes, quay to Pennington
Ask when a Lymington house was built before asking what goes on its floor: 13% of the town's homes are older than 1919.
Those oldest houses cluster around the quay. Georgian and Victorian ground floors there can lack any damp proof membrane, so a renovation often opens with the floor dug out, insulated and given a fresh screed. Period rooms tend to be tackled one by one, each with a level already fixed by its doorway or hearth, and that suits hand-laid sand and cement in Lymington's older houses; a pumped screed over the new insulation is still possible, and makes most sense in a bigger room.
Pennington and Buckland are another matter. Houses there date mostly from the 1950s through the 1990s, and their owners are the ones building out the back on one level or taking down the wall between kitchen and dining room; whichever it is, the fresh floor has to stop exactly at the height of the old slab. Pumped liquid screed runs level across a broad open room and sits thinner than the traditional kind, which makes hitting that existing height easier. Planning heating pipes too? Check screed depths over underfloor heating before fixing the floor level.
One Lymington home in five, 20%, is a flat. Drawings for apartment floors are the likeliest place to find a calcium sulphate grade written in, and our Lymington anhydrite page runs through the sanding and testing that a grade like that brings with it.
Homes in Lymington at a glance
Detached houses make up 34% of the 7,119 households in Lymington, followed by semi-detached houses at 27%. The largest share of its housing, 31%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 28% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Lymington | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 34% |
| Semi-detached houses | 27% |
| Terraced houses | 18% |
| Flats | 20% |
| Built before 1919 | 13% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 10% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 28% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 31% |
| Built since 2000 | 17% |
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 Lymington built-up area (E63006671).
Screeding services in Lymington
- Liquid ScreedKitchen knock-throughs in Pennington and Buckland need a floor that meets the old slab.
- Sand and Cement ScreedGeorgian and Victorian houses near Lymington quay may have no damp proof membrane. We dig out and relay in sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedAdding underfloor heating to a Lymington renovation or a Pennington extension? We lay the screed with the right pipe cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for Lymington apartments and new plots, poured to CA-C25-F5 or the specified grade, then sanded and tested.
- Floor LevellingAmpress Park fit-outs, Gordleton units and the step where an old kitchen meets an extension: floor levelling in Lymington.
- Latex ScreedLatex screed for Lymington refits over plywood overboarding, firmly fixed old tiles and sound concrete, checked for damp first.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Ampress Park and Gordleton unit slabs in Lymington, clearing paint, glue and laitance with dust 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 Lymington.
Planning a pour in Lymington: timing, parking, business parks
A screed slots in between other trades. By the time we turn up, the roof and windows should keep the weather out, wet plaster should be finished and any heating pipework pressure tested. Afterwards the floor must dry down to whatever limit the flooring maker sets before tiles or boards go on, so let the screed date fix the fitter's booking and not the reverse.
Then there is getting in. Pumping needs a mixer and pump parked outside within reach of a door by hose. No off-street space, or just a slim passage down the side? Say so with your enquiry. A drive makes the whole set-up easier.
North of the town centre, the work turns commercial. Ampress Park covers 35 acres off the A337 Southampton Road, next to Lymington New Forest Hospital, with warehouses, offices and manufacturing space mostly built since the mid 2000s. Out in Upper Pennington is Gordleton Industrial Estate. Fit-outs on either can need hard-wearing screeds, preparation of the old floor or concrete repairs, all part of our screeding for business premises. Where a floor is sound and merely uneven, compound normally beats a new screed for speed.
Screeding prices for Lymington 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 Lymington
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Reaching Lymington
Lymington is about 66.2 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO41. The nearest towns to it are New Milton (5 miles), Christchurch (10.6 miles), Totton (11.3 miles) and Southampton (11.8 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Lymington include Buckland, Pennington and Upper Pennington.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
