Replacing uninsulated concrete floors in Peacehaven homes
An uninsulated concrete floor loses heat into the ground and feels cold underfoot, whatever is laid on top. When a kitchen or living room is being redone, it is the right moment to deal with it properly.
The floor is broken out and removed to a depth that leaves room for the new build up. Next come the damp proof membrane and the insulation, with 65mm of floating sand and cement screed on top, the usual depth in a house. It is mixed on site, placed by hand and compacted to a flat, dense finish. Our page on insulation and membranes sets out the layers below.
Age alone does not settle it. Homes built from 1919 to 1944 make up 8% of Peacehaven, and they sit alongside the far larger post-war and late twentieth century groups. Floors of any of those ages can lack insulation, so a survey comes before any price.
In a house rebuilt in stages, the new floor also has to line up with rooms that are staying. Hand laying makes that easy to control: the screed is set to the height of the retained floors at each doorway.
Sometimes the concrete is sound and needs only a thin topping, and then a 25 to 40mm screed bonded straight onto it saves breaking anything out. When that approach works is explained under bonding a screed to a slab, and trade2base's June 2026 figure for it is £12 to £18 per m² (trade2base, June 2026).
Where hand-laid screed suits a Peacehaven bungalow
Terraced houses are only 13% of Peacehaven's homes, so narrow terrace rooms are less of a feature here than in older towns. Hand laying earns its place for other reasons.
Shower rooms are the first. Water rules out calcium sulphate, whereas sand and cement copes with it and can be shaped to fall towards a drain. Garages are the second. A conversion usually needs the floor raised, insulated and brought level with the house, and cement screed takes that well.
Third, floors that need early load or a cement base for the finish. Putting fibres in costs roughly £1 to £3 per m² extra, and if time is short a fast drying mix is £20 to £28 per m² according to MyJobQuote.
The cost is time. A 65mm floor needs well over 40 days before you can put down a finish that minds moisture, since the first 40mm loses water at about a millimetre a day and the remainder more slowly. For the depths different floors need, see our screed thickness guide.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Peacehaven
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Peacehaven
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement Screed from Slough to Peacehaven
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 58.1 miles from Peacehaven, which lies to the south-south-east. Postcodes here include BN10, and Newhaven (2 miles), Seaford (4.7 miles), Lewes (5.4 miles) and Brighton and Hove (6.7 miles) are close by.
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