Extensions, open-plan rooms and flats in Marlow
Big, open floors are where liquid screed makes most sense. Extend a Marlow house at the back into one large kitchen and living space, and the screed runs across the whole area and settles at its own level. The SR1 and SR2 flatness classes are well within its reach, which suits large format tiles and engineered wood. Because it barely shrinks, even a sizeable floor can be laid with only a few joints.
In an extension, depth often settles the matter. Liquid screed floating in a Marlow house can go as thin as about 35mm, while sand and cement wants about 65mm. That gap can let the new room line up with the existing floor so nobody steps down at the door.
Flats suit it as well, and 18% of homes in Marlow are flats. Hauling sand and cement up a shared staircase is slow, heavy and messy, whereas a hose run up the stairwell is none of those, and the pour is finished quickly, so the communal areas are barely disrupted.
You can get liquid screed in calcium sulphate or cement based form; the calcium sulphate version is covered on our anhydrite flow screed page for Marlow. If you are still deciding between the two, our side-by-side comparison of pumped and hand-laid screed sets out cost, depth and drying.
Pump set-up and drying for a Marlow pour
On pour day, the pump and mixer stay outside and a hose takes the screed in through whichever door is nearest. A drive makes this simple. If you park on the street, or the house sits at the end of a lane or a long path, say so when you ask for a price, so the route and any permits are arranged in advance.
Then the room itself. Edge strip has to go round every wall, the membrane must be lapped and taped where it covers the insulation, and the doorways need damming. Where there is heating, the pipes should already be clipped and pressure tested by your engineer. All of this is checked before the pump is started.
Drying is where programmes tend to slip. People can walk across it a day or two after the pour, but the finish waits for a passed moisture test. Reckon on about a day per millimetre up to 40mm deep, then a slower rate, and longer again in a cold room. With a heated floor, the underfloor heating screed page explains how the heating can speed things up. Working in Maidenhead, about 4 miles away? See liquid screed in Maidenhead.
Liquid Screed prices in Marlow
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 Marlow
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.
Liquid Screed from Slough to Marlow
On the map, Marlow sits west-north-west of Slough, about 6.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SL7 and SL6), next to High Wycombe (4.1 miles), Maidenhead (4.2 miles), Henley-on-Thames (6 miles) and Beaconsfield (6.3 miles).
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