Choosing a screed for New Milton's post-war houses
Detached houses account for 35% of New Milton's homes, and many of them date from the 1950s to the 1990s. Owners of those houses keep adding rear and side extensions, converting garages and opening up ground floors, and every one of those projects ends with fresh screed that has to meet an old concrete slab at exactly the right height. That one constraint drives which material gets used.
For a wide extension or an opened-up ground floor, pumped screed for New Milton homes is the natural fit: it flattens itself over a big area, takes footsteps after 24 to 48 hours, and being thinner, lines up with the old slab more easily.
Garage conversions, wet rooms and small rooms lean towards hand-laid sand and cement, batched as needed and trowelled to precise levels with no pump parked outside.
Heating pipes going in? Read screeding over underfloor heating for how deep the cover must be and how the system is warmed up afterwards.
Houses from those decades bring a second issue. The screeds they were built with can crack, shed dust or ring hollow when tapped, and that has to be sorted before any new flooring. Sometimes a section is relaid; where the base holds up, a coat of self levelling compound may be enough. Plans that spell out a CA grade point you to our anhydrite page, where the calcium sulphate itself is dealt with.
Homes in New Milton at a glance
The most common home in New Milton is a detached house (35%), ahead of flats at 29%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (42%), and a further 33% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in New Milton | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 35% |
| Semi-detached houses | 17% |
| Terraced houses | 17% |
| Flats | 29% |
| Built before 1919 | 4% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 9% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 33% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 42% |
| Built since 2000 | 13% |
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 New Milton built-up area (E63006678).
Screeding services in New Milton
- Liquid ScreedOpen plan remodels and upper floor flats in New Milton suit pumped liquid screed: self-levelling, thinner and walkable in a day or two.
- Sand and Cement ScreedGarage conversions and hollow, dusting post-war screeds in New Milton often call for hand-laid sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating in New Milton extensions must finish flush with the old slab, so insulation, pipes and screed share a set depth. Heat-up plan included.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for New Milton apartment floors: CA grades poured, laitance sanded off and moisture tested before flooring.
- Floor LevellingTrade units on Gore Road and tired post-war screeds in New Milton homes, brought flat with self levelling compound for new floors.
- Latex ScreedOriginal screeds in New Milton's 1950s to 1990s houses made sound first, then smoothed with latex screed for sheet vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete grinding for Gore Road trade units, from Williams Industrial Park to Tarodene House, in New Milton.
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 New Milton.
Pour dates, pumps and Gore Road units in New Milton
Get the screed in the diary early, but expect it to happen halfway through the build. Our crew wants a sealed shell to arrive at, the wet plastering finished, and any heating loops signed off by their own pressure check. The floor then has to dry before it is covered, so the flooring fitter is booked behind the screed, never ahead of it.
The pumping rig parks on your side of the street and a hose runs from it to the nearest door. A drive solves that. If there is no off-street space, or the extension sits behind the garage down a narrow side path, say so in your enquiry and we will plan the hose route beforehand. Flats are similar, except the hose goes in through a shared entrance.
Not everything here is residential. About a mile west of the centre, with a link to the A35 at Hinton, Gore Road Industrial Estate takes in Williams Industrial Park, Hamilton Business Park and Tarodene House. Warehouse and trade units like those often need floor preparation, screed repairs or a fresh heavy duty screed between tenants, all covered by our screeding for warehouses and trade units.
Screeding prices for New Milton 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 New Milton
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching New Milton
On the map, New Milton sits south-west of Slough, about 69.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BH25), next to Lymington (5 miles), Christchurch (5.6 miles), Ringwood (8.8 miles) and Bournemouth (10 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in New Milton include Old Milton.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.