Extensions and flats: where liquid screed fits Newmarket
A rear extension on a 1970s, 1980s or 1990s house is the typical liquid screed job. The new floor usually runs into a knocked-through kitchen, so it must be flat across a wide area and finish level with the existing floor. A pumped screed does both, because it finds its own level as it flows. Starting from about 35mm on a floating domestic floor, against 65mm for sand and cement, it leaves more depth for insulation under the same finished level.
Flats are the other strong fit. Pumping lets screed reach an upper floor through a hose, with no barrows carried up the stairs, and the flat, dense finish suits LVT, tiles and engineered wood across open-plan living spaces.
17% of Newmarket homes were built since 2000. Where a newer house already has a flowing screed over insulation and heating, extending it with the same material keeps the floors consistent.
The binder is either calcium sulphate or cement; the pump and the way the floor levels are no different for either. We use cement based versions where a floor may get wet.
The practical gains are speed and fewer joints: large areas go down in a day, shrinkage is low, and the screed flows fully around underfloor heating pipes with no voids. To weigh a pumped floor against a hand-laid one, read pumped versus hand-laid screed.
Pump set-up for Newmarket houses and flats
Every liquid pour needs two things parked outside: the mixer delivering the screed and the pump that pushes it through the hose. A drive makes it easy. For a house on a street with no off-street space, or a block where the hose must travel up a stairwell, we plan the route in advance. Let us know about parking restrictions, shared entrances and the floor level of the flat when asking for a price. Our screed pump service has more on pump set-up.
The room must be ready. Walls plastered, windows and doors fitted, membrane taped at the joins and edge strip fixed round the perimeter. Shut the room up for the first couple of days after pouring, and then let plenty of air through.
Firm underfoot is a long way from dry. Through the first 40mm, drying takes roughly a day for each millimetre and it slows past that point, so test the moisture before any flooring goes down. For a job just up the road, see liquid screed in Soham.
Liquid Screed prices in Newmarket
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 Newmarket
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Newmarket
Newmarket is about 66.6 miles north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including CB8. The nearest towns to it are Soham (6.7 miles), Haverhill (11.2 miles), Ely (12.4 miles) and Cambridge (12.4 miles).
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