Digging out old floors near Lymington quay
A floor with no damp proof membrane can behave for years under a rug before giving itself away: damp creeping along the skirting, flooring lifting, or a stale smell in a room left shut. Near Lymington's quay, Georgian and Victorian ground floors laid without a membrane are not rare, and putting new flooring over one simply seals the damp in.
Taking it out is what lasts. The old floor is broken up and carried away, and the ground lowered enough for the full build-up: damp proof membrane, rigid insulation, separating layer and edge strip, then screed. Laid over insulation, the sand and cement floats, so in a house it wants about 65mm of thickness to carry loads without cracking.
Houses of this age suit work done by hand. Walls and chimney breasts split the rooms, doorways and hearths fix where the floor must finish, and often one room is done while the family lives in the others. Sand and cement can be mixed a batch at a time and brought to the exact level in each.
Pouring a liquid screed over the new insulation is also possible, and some owners pick it for a bigger room. For the numbers behind each option, open our screed thickness guide. If the ground itself needs work before anything goes back, our preparation of floor bases deals with it.
Wet rooms, garages and terraces across Lymington
Water is where sand and cement beats calcium sulphate, which cannot take it. That makes it the screed to use under a level-access shower or a fully tiled wet room, whose floor must tilt gently down to the gully. We build that slope into the screed, giving the tiler a true fall to follow and not one made up in adhesive.
Garages are the other use. A garage becoming a study or bedroom needs its floor lifted to match the house, building up from a membrane through insulation to a flat screed on top; screeding a garage for conversion shows each layer.
In Lymington 18% of homes are terraced, and getting from the street to the back room of a terrace can mean a long, narrow route. Sand and cement is mixed on site in batches, so no pump has to be parked out front.
What you give up is time. A floating hand-laid floor at around 65mm stays damp far longer than a thinner pumped one. Short on weeks? A fast drying screed mix claws some back. Going by published 2026 rates, sand and cement costs £18 to £25 a square metre and quick drying mixes £20 to £28. The pumped option is on our Lymington liquid screed page.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Lymington
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Lymington
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement 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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