Which screed suits which Market Harborough home
Census 2021 counted 24,162 people in the Market Harborough built-up area. Their homes fall into three rough groups, and each one tends to need a different kind of floor. The newest group sits in Little Bowden, where Redrow built the Rockingham View estate on Windy Ridge and permission has been granted for another 400 homes. Houses like these are normally specified with a flowing screed over underfloor heating, and the handover date depends on how quickly that floor dries. For heated rooms, start with screed over underfloor heating in Market Harborough. Plot drawings that call up a CA grade are dealt with on our Market Harborough anhydrite page, which sets out what that grade means on site. The second group is the older property close to the centre of this old market town, whose Old Grammar School dates from 1614. Old solid floors in the houses near the centre can crack, drop or lose their damp course over a century, and the fix is usually a rebuilt floor topped with hand-laid sand and cement for older rooms, since it can be worked into small rooms and walls that are out of square. The third group is the council-built housing of the Bowden Fields Estate, where extensions, garage conversions and new floor finishes are the typical projects. A new extension floor rarely meets the old one at exactly the same height, so levelling the floor before LVT or tiles is often what decides whether the finish sits flat. Not sure where your house fits? Tell us roughly when it was built and what is on the floor now.
Homes in Market Harborough at a glance
Detached houses make up 35% of the 10,572 households in Market Harborough, followed by semi-detached houses at 31%. The largest share of its housing, 23%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 21% between 2000 and 2014.
| Homes in Market Harborough | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 35% |
| Semi-detached houses | 31% |
| Terraced houses | 20% |
| Flats | 12% |
| Built before 1919 | 13% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 20% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 23% |
| Built since 2000 | 35% |
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 Market Harborough built-up area (E63002901).
Screeding services in Market Harborough
- Liquid ScreedOpen-plan kitchens, new Little Bowden houses and upper-floor flats in Market Harborough suit pumped liquid screed.
- Sand and Cement ScreedRebuilding a failed solid floor in an older Market Harborough house, or screeding a garage conversion?
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for Rockingham View homes and retrofits in older Market Harborough semis, laid to the right depth over pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed to CA-C20-F4, CA-C25-F5 or CA-C30-F6 for Market Harborough plots and apartments, with laitance advice.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Airfield Business Park offices, older Rockingham Road units and uneven Market Harborough house floors, ready for LVT.
- Latex ScreedKitchen and bathroom refits in older Market Harborough homes: latex screed laid thin over plywood, firm tiles or worn concrete.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding with diamond heads for Rockingham Road units, Airfield Business Park fit-outs and Market Harborough garages.
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 Market Harborough.
Timing a pour around a Market Harborough build
A screed pour on a Market Harborough build has to wait for some trades and holds up others, so we fix its date around theirs. The roof should be on and the windows in, the insulation and any heating pipes laid, and ideally the plastering finished, because wet plaster and a drying floor both want the room ventilated. A pumped pour then needs a clear day with nobody walking through, while a sand and cement floor can go down one room at a time. Then there is getting the screed to the room. A pumped screed arrives on a mixer lorry and a hose runs from the kerb to the room, so we ask where a lorry can stop and how far the hose has to travel. Where a street is narrow or fully parked, a parking suspension or an early start may be needed. Commercial floors keep a different clock. Airfield Business Park, on the northern edge of town beside the Harborough Innovation Centre, already holds over 206,000 sq ft of industrial space, with further warehouse and hybrid office units to come. The older Riverside and Rockingham Road industrial estate dates from the 1960s, and its units are regular candidates for screed repairs and resurfacing.
Screeding prices for Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Market Harborough
Market Harborough is about 66.6 miles north of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including LE16. The nearest towns to it are Desborough (5 miles), Corby (9.4 miles), Kettering (9.9 miles) and Lutterworth (11.8 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Market Harborough include Little Bowden.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.