Pumping liquid screed up Stratford and Canning Town towers
Liquid screed leaves the mixer as a fluid and travels to the room through a hose, so the height of a building matters far less than it would with barrow loads of sand and cement. That is why it suits the newer blocks in Stratford, Canning Town and the Royal Docks, where the floor is usually a floating screed over heating pipes and acoustic mats. Royal Wharf alone brought 3,385 homes to the Royal Docks.
Once in place, the screed finds its own level. Worked with a dipping bar as it settles, it readily reaches surface regularity SR1 or SR2, which means no more than 3mm or 5mm deviation under a 2m straightedge. That flatness saves adhesive and time when LVT or tiles follow.
Depth is set by what lies underneath and what the floor will carry. In a flat or house, a floating pour begins at around 35mm, rising to around 40mm for commercial use. Heating loops want a minimum of 25mm on top of them, so a heated floor ends up somewhere near 45 to 50mm in all. Liquid screeds come in calcium sulphate and cement based forms, and the calcium sulphate grades page deals with the first kind in detail.
Being able to cross it within a couple of days is one thing; laying LVT or tiles on it is another. As a rough rule, each millimetre of the first 40mm takes a day to dry, and anything deeper is slower again. A tower fit out plan should build that in, and our screed drying times guide explains what speeds it up.
Liquid screed for extensions behind Newham terraces
Plenty of Newham's pumped floors go into houses rather than towers. Behind many of the borough's older terraced houses, a rear extension or a knocked through kitchen creates one large floor. A single pumped pour covers it with far fewer joints than sand and cement would need, and low shrinkage keeps cracking down across a wide open room.
On a house, the pump usually stands in the road with the hose run through the front door or down a side passage. Because the hose can be laid out a long way, the lorry stays at the kerb and never needs to get near your garden. If you are in East Ham, Forest Gate or West Ham and your road has permit bays, tell us at the pricing stage so the pump position can be agreed in advance.
Before the lorry turns up, the room needs some preparation. Edge strip goes round every wall, the membrane is taped so the fluid cannot escape, and doorways are dammed. A tiny room, a floor with steps in it or a future wet room is often better done in traditional screed mixed and laid by hand, and the liquid versus sand and cement guide weighs up both.
Liquid Screed prices in Newham
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 Newham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Newham
Newham is about 29.3 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including E6, E16, E7 and E12. The nearest towns to it are Tower Hamlets (3.2 miles), Greenwich (3.7 miles), Barking and Dagenham (4 miles) and Redbridge (4.1 miles).
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