Newbury homes where pumped liquid screed makes sense
The mix comes to site already batched, and our hose carries it straight onto the insulation boards or the slab. It flows to a level, is spread and dappled to release trapped air, and is then left to set. Because it finds its own level, a large open area is finished in one visit, and surface regularity to SR1 or SR2 is readily achievable. Shrinkage is slight, so a Newbury kitchen extension poured this way can do without most of the joints a sand and cement floor of the same size would need.
Those qualities fit particular kinds of Newbury work. The new streets around Newbury Racecourse and the homes planned at Sandleford Park are designed with underfloor heating in a liquid screed, and a flowing mix wraps round the pipes without leaving voids. A further 16% of Newbury's housing dates from 2000 to 2014. When a house of that age gains a rear extension or a knock-through kitchen, one wide floor is quicker to pour than to lay by hand.
On insulation in a house, plan for roughly 35mm; a commercial floating floor starts nearer 40mm. Over heating pipes we allow at least 25mm of cover, which gives 45 to 50mm in total.
You can have the poured mix with a calcium sulphate or a cement base; the rooms and the floor finish going on top settle which. For the calcium sulphate option in detail, see anhydrite screed for Newbury homes. Still choosing between pouring and hand laying? Our guide setting liquid against sand and cement lays out the pros and cons.
Getting the pump to the floor in Newbury
Every liquid pour depends on the hose reaching the room. The mixer lorry and pump need somewhere to stand, and on a new-build plot there is usually a drive or site road for that. In the older streets of the town centre and Speenhamland, parking is often tighter and the hose may need to pass through a hallway or over a side gate. We plan that route in advance and protect the house along it.
Upper floors are not a problem in themselves. A hose can climb a stairwell or go through a window to a first or second floor flat, which matters in a town with so many apartments. We have no pumps or machines for hire; the pump is brought by our own crew and goes when they go.
Where programmes slip is the wait for drying. A floor you can stroll across on day two may still be far too wet for tiles or timber. Budget for each of the first 40 millimetres taking about a day and anything beyond that taking longer; we then test the screed before a finish is laid. Our screed drying times guide explains the numbers, and the same service is available nearby as liquid screed in Thatcham.
Liquid Screed prices in Newbury
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 Newbury
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Newbury
On the map, Newbury sits west-south-west of Slough, about 30.7 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG14), next to Thatcham (2.8 miles), Tadley (8.1 miles), Basingstoke (13.7 miles) and Wantage (13.7 miles).
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