Which screed fits which Northfleet home
Census 2021 counted 29,892 people in the Northfleet built-up area, living in homes that run from pre-1919 terraces to houses finished in the last few years. How old a building is settles most decisions about its floor.
Pre-1919 terraces often come with worn or uneven solid ground floors. When one of those is broken out, it is rebuilt with a membrane, insulation and a new hand-laid sand and cement screed, which copes well with small rooms, tight hallways and awkward thresholds.
Perry Street and the estates at Shears Green, Istead Rise and Downs Road make up much of the rest of the town. On those estates, knocking the kitchen through into a new rear room leaves one wide floor, and that floor suits pumped liquid screed for big open rooms. The mix settles flat by itself, and people can be walking over it a day or two later, within 24 to 48 hours. Planning warm pipes under that new floor? Read up on screeding over heating pipes in Northfleet for how deep the pipes are buried and how soon you can switch on.
At Cable Wharf and similar schemes, the typical job is liquid screed in houses and apartments, finished flat enough for click flooring and tiles. Plans for schemes like that sometimes call up a calcium sulphate grade by name, and what that material needs once poured, sanding and a moisture check, is explained under anhydrite flow screed.
Not every tired Northfleet floor has to come up, either. If the slab underneath is solid and simply uneven, levelling it with compound before the new flooring usually does the job in less time and for less money than screeding again.
Homes in Northfleet at a glance
Terraced houses make up 36% of the 11,491 households in Northfleet, followed by semi-detached houses at 32%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (31%), and a further 20% before 1919.
| Homes in Northfleet | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 8% |
| Semi-detached houses | 32% |
| Terraced houses | 36% |
| Flats | 24% |
| Built before 1919 | 20% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 17% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 31% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 13% |
| Built since 2000 | 18% |
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 Northfleet built-up area (E63005039).
Screeding services in Northfleet
- Liquid ScreedCable Wharf houses and apartments in Northfleet take pumped liquid screed, finished flat enough for click flooring and tiles with no bay-by-bay hand laying.
- Sand and Cement ScreedDug-out solid floors in pre-1919 Northfleet terraces are usually relaid in sand and cement, 65mm floating, compacted by hand.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedAdding wet underfloor heating to a Northfleet extension or post-war semi? We lay the screed over it with correct pipe cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed for Northfleet apartment blocks and new plots, poured to the specified grade, sanded and moisture tested.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling to SR1 or SR2 for unit refits on Northfleet's industrial estates and uneven floors in older homes, ready for LVT.
- Latex ScreedPlywood-overboarded floors and old tiled kitchens in Northfleet, smoothed with a thin latex screed ready for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for refitted units on Northfleet Industrial Estate, taking off old coatings and high spots 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 Northfleet.
Timing the pour and parking the pump in Northfleet
Your screed date is fixed by the builders who go before it and the fitters who come after. We need the room shut against the weather when we turn up, with glass in the windows, outside doors hung, wet plastering out of the way and any heating pipes already pressure tested. Once it is down, the floor has to dry out before the tiler, the joiner or the LVT fitter can start, and a deeper floor takes longer. So pencil in your flooring fitter once the screed date is settled, rather than the reverse.
Access matters just as much. Pumping means the mixer lorry must park near enough that its hose stretches to your front step. A driveway makes that easy, while a tight terraced street takes more thought. Mention parking bays, a shared passage between houses or a flat a few storeys up when you ask us to price, and we can plan the day around it.
Commercial floors are a different scale of job. Northfleet Industrial Estate sits between the A226 and the Thames, and Crete Hall Road is home to Kimberly-Clark's mill and the 168,249 sq ft Northfleet 168 warehouse. Springhead Enterprise Park and Ebbsfleet Industrial Estate add further units. Large slabs like these need flat, hard-wearing floors, and our commercial screeding service covers floors at that scale, including repairs and grinding.
Screeding prices for Northfleet 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 Northfleet
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Northfleet
Northfleet is about 43.3 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including DA11. The nearest towns to it are Gravesend (1 miles), Tilbury (1.7 miles), Swanscombe (2.8 miles) and Grays (2.9 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Northfleet include Kings Farm, New House, Pepper Hill, Perry Street and Rosherville.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
