Three kinds of Newhaven floor, three different jobs
The Census 2021 figure for the Newhaven built-up area is 12,857 people, and the homes they live in span every period, from the harbour town that grew in the Middle Ages to schemes finished in the last few years. Choosing a screed starts with which group a house falls into.
Older houses first. Homes built before 1919 make up 22% of the town, and Victorian terraces near the centre and the harbour tend to have tired solid floors with no membrane. Renovating one usually means a full dig out and an insulated screed. Tight rooms and small areas like those are the natural territory of hand-laid sand and cement screed for Newhaven renovations.
The Denton and Mount Pleasant semis are the houses most likely to grow a rear extension. A new extension joined to an open-plan kitchen gives a wide floor that suits a pumped liquid screed, poured in a day and walkable within 24 to 48 hours.
Then the newer homes. Flats and houses at West Quay and Safford Park, the scheme on the former Parker Pen site, are more likely to need a latex or self levelling layer before new flooring than a full screed replacement. That is covered on our floor levelling page, and it usually costs far less than taking a floor up.
Harbour Heights is covered too; there, as everywhere, we look at the floor before recommending anything.
Homes in Newhaven at a glance
Of the 5,469 households in Newhaven, 31% live in semi-detached houses and 27% in terraced houses. The largest share of its housing, 29%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 22% before 1919.
| Homes in Newhaven | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 18% |
| Semi-detached houses | 31% |
| Terraced houses | 27% |
| Flats | 21% |
| Built before 1919 | 22% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 10% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 29% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 20% |
| Built since 2000 | 19% |
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 Newhaven built-up area (E63006607).
Screeding services in Newhaven
- Liquid ScreedKnocking a Denton or Mount Pleasant semi through to a rear extension? Pumped liquid screed floors the whole Newhaven space in a day.
- Sand and Cement ScreedHarbour-side Newhaven terraces often have old solid floors with no membrane. We dig out and lay insulated sand and cement screed.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for a new rear extension or garden room in Newhaven: 25mm liquid or 45mm sand and cement over the pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite screed for Newhaven's new plots and apartment blocks, poured to the stated grade from CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6.
- Floor LevellingWest Quay and Safford Park floors often need a thin levelling layer, not a new screed. We level Newhaven floors to SR1.
- Latex ScreedKitchen refit in an older Newhaven house, or ply over old boards? Latex screed gives vinyl, LVT and lino a smooth, sound base.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for lips at Newhaven extension joins, stuck-down adhesive and painted unit floors, with dust extraction.
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 Newhaven.
Business floors across the Newhaven Enterprise Zone
Over 360 businesses operate in Newhaven, and the Newhaven Enterprise Zone, launched in 2017 across about 79 hectares, is adding employment space on the east side of the river. New units, workshops and offices all need a floor ready for their finishes.
The zone includes the Avis Way Industrial Estate, at about 26.7 hectares, and Eastside Business Park, where 26 light industrial and warehouse units were built in phases from 2017. Denton Island Business Park, centred on the Basepoint enterprise centre, adds smaller workshops. Units of these kinds can need a warehouse slab made flat for a new finish, an office levelled before carpet tiles, or a fit out that needs a fresh screed.
Commercial screeds run deeper than domestic ones: typically 75mm for a floating sand and cement screed and 40mm for a floating liquid screed. For offices and larger open floors, a calcium sulphate screed to a stated grade may be specified, and our page on anhydrite flow screed in Newhaven explains the grades, laitance and moisture testing. Resin, polished concrete and structural power floated slabs are outside our work, so a unit that needs one of those should go to a specialist. For the rest, see our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Newhaven 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 Newhaven
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.
Reaching Newhaven
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 59.2 miles from Newhaven, which lies to the south-south-east. Postcodes here include BN9, and Peacehaven (2 miles), Seaford (2.9 miles), Lewes (5.7 miles) and Brighton and Hove (8.6 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Newhaven include Denton, Harbour Heights and Mount Pleasant.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
