Flush floors for Pennington and Buckland extensions
Laying the new room is the easy bit. The tricky part is the strip where it meets the old house. Almost a third of Lymington's homes (31%) belong to the 1973 to 1999 period, and it is the post-war and later streets of Pennington and Buckland, 1950s to 1990s, where people push the kitchen out into the garden or open it up into the dining room. Once the back wall is gone, the new floor has to meet the old slab dead level, because any lip will show through a finish that crosses both.
A pumped screed helps on three counts. First, it is run to a fixed datum and spreads itself flat, comfortably achieving SR1 or SR2: 3mm or 5mm of tolerance beneath a two metre straightedge. Second, it is slimmer, from roughly 35mm floating in a house where sand and cement wants about 65mm, leaving space for more insulation under an unchanged floor height. Third, it hardly shrinks, so the open-plan room needs far fewer joints.
We fix the levels before pouring, taking the finished height off the existing floor, allowing for both floor coverings and working down to the insulation. If the old floor is out of level itself, a skim of levelling compound over the join afterwards hands the fitter one continuous surface.
What binds a pumped screed, calcium sulphate or cement, gets decided room by room. For a head-to-head with hand-laid floors, see liquid against sand and cement.
Pump access from Lymington streets and flats
Our kit stays out on the drive or kerb, and just a hose comes through your door. A drive lets the pump sit clear of the road. If the street is the only option, or the extension is reachable only down a side passage, tell us when you enquire and the hose route will be worked out ahead of the day.
Lymington's flats suit a pump well. Purpose-built blocks hold 17% of the town's homes, which adds up to a lot of upper floors where lugging sand and cement up the stairs would be slow, heavy work. The hose climbs the stairwell and puts the screed straight into the room.
Everything in the room has to be set before we pump. Foam strip goes along the base of the walls, the plastic sheet on the insulation boards gets tape along each overlap, and dams close off the doorways. If the build-up has not been supplied, our insulation and membrane service can provide it.
A floor you can cross in slippers is still a long way from a floor you can tile. Reckon on roughly one day for each millimetre up to 40mm, slower after that, and longer still in cold, damp weather, then test before flooring. Our drying time explainer is worth ten minutes before you pencil in a fitter. Five miles away, we offer the same in New Milton.
Liquid Screed prices in Lymington
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 Lymington
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to 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).
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