Where pumped screed fits Market Harborough floors
Liquid screed is mixed off site, delivered by lorry and pumped into the room, where it flows out and levels itself. That makes it quick on large, open areas and gives a dense floor with few joints and little shrinkage. An SR1 or SR2 flatness is normal with this material, so it makes a good base for LVT, big tiles and engineered boards. In Market Harborough the obvious fit is the newer housing. On new estates such as Rockingham View in Little Bowden, liquid or anhydrite screed over underfloor heating is the usual specification for the detached and semi-detached houses, and a flowing screed covers a whole ground floor in a single visit. Open-plan kitchen and family room extensions on older houses are the other natural home for it. Flats are worth a mention. Around 12% of the town's homes are flats, and the restored canal basin at Union Wharf added more. Upper floors in a block are awkward to reach with barrows of sand and cement but straightforward with a pump line. Floating on insulation, a domestic liquid floor begins at roughly 35mm deep, and commercial floors take about 40mm. It is made with either a calcium sulphate or a cement binder, and which one goes in comes down to the room, the build programme and what flooring follows. Still deciding between this and a traditional mix? The guide to liquid screed vs sand and cement screed lays out the differences.
Getting the pump line into a Market Harborough room
The mixer lorry parks, the pump sits beside it and a hose runs to the room being poured. On a new estate with wide roads and driveways that is simple. Where a house fronts a narrow street, sits in a terrace with no side access, or the floor is on an upper storey, we plan the hose route before the day: through the front door, over a side gate or up a stairwell. Before the lorry comes, the room itself needs preparing. We lay the insulation and edge strip, then a membrane with taped joints so no screed escapes beneath it. In a Rockingham View style ground floor with heating pipes under the liquid floor, the installer clips the pipes down and pressure tests them before we pour. A day or two after the pour, between 24 and 48 hours, you can walk across it carefully. Drying out properly takes far longer, at about 1 day per mm up to 40mm and slower past that, so a 50mm floor is weeks away from taking moisture-sensitive flooring. If you are also comparing prices a few miles away, see liquid screed in Kettering.
Liquid Screed prices in Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to 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).
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