Matching the screed to Peterborough's housing
Peterborough changed fast after 1967, when it became a New Town. Census 2021 counted 190,592 people in the built-up area, and the city's floors reflect several very different building eras.
Start with the townships. Owners in the Ortons, Bretton and Werrington are mostly working with 1970s and 1980s houses, and the jobs there tend to be extensions and garage conversions that need a new insulated floor. A pumped liquid screed for open extensions suits a large kitchen and family room; a hand-laid traditional sand and cement floor suits a garage conversion or a small room.
Then there is Hampton, built south of the city since 1996 on former brick fields. Over a quarter of Peterborough's homes, 26%, have been built since 2000. Plenty of those Hampton Vale and Hampton Hargate houses, and the extensions added since, carry wet pipes in the floor; how deep to bury them and how to warm them the first time sit on the Peterborough heated floor screed page.
The city's older terraces are different again. Renovations there often mean replacing damp or broken floors, and sometimes the right answer is a thin compound rather than a new screed; our levelling service explains how to tell, and when a damp slab has to be broken out first.
Apartment schemes, such as Fletton Quays with its 350 apartments, may specify a calcium sulphate flow screed, which has its own page on grades, laitance and moisture testing.
Homes in Peterborough at a glance
Semi-detached houses make up 33% of the 74,152 households in Peterborough, followed by detached houses at 25%. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (38%), and a further 19% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Peterborough | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 25% |
| Semi-detached houses | 33% |
| Terraced houses | 23% |
| Flats | 18% |
| Built before 1919 | 10% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 7% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 19% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 38% |
| Built since 2000 | 26% |
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 Peterborough built-up area (E63002720).
Screeding services in Peterborough
- Liquid ScreedFletton Quays apartments and open-plan extensions suit pumped liquid screed in Peterborough: level to SR2, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedDamp, broken floors in Peterborough's older terraces often need digging out and relaying. We hand-lay sand and cement screed to suit.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedHeated floors at Hampton or a retrofit in a 1980s Werrington house: we screed over wet underfloor heating in Peterborough.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedBlocks like Fletton Quays in Peterborough call for anhydrite flow screed. We pour CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 with laitance advice.
- Floor LevellingRefits at Cygnet Park, Kingston Park and Fengate need flat floors. K & B lays self levelling compound in Peterborough.
- Latex ScreedPlywood over old boards, or tiles left after a Peterborough terrace renovation? A few mm of latex screed readies them for vinyl.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for unit slabs at Fengate, Gateway Peterborough or Hampton: paint lines, glue and lipped bays removed.
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 Peterborough.
Access, parking and programme in Peterborough
Screed arrives in one of two ways. A liquid screed is pumped from a mixer truck through a hose, so the truck needs a space close to the house. A sand and cement screed is mixed on site, then barrowed in, which needs room for materials and a mixer.
Wherever the house is, from Paston to Stanground, tell us about drives, parking permits, bays or shared entries when you ask for a price, so the pump or mixer position is agreed before the day.
Timing is the other half. The building should be weathertight before we arrive, with the insulation, membrane and edge strip down and any heating pipes pressure tested. After the pour, drying time sets when tiles, wood or LVT can go down, so plan the floor layer around that rather than the pour date.
For warehouse and trade floors at Fengate, Orton Southgate or Gateway Peterborough, the work is a different scale. Warehouse and distribution floors there often call for high strength screeds, repairs or grinding. Our commercial screeding service covers it.
Screeding prices for Peterborough 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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
On the map, Peterborough sits north-north-east of Slough, about 73.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PE1, PE7, PE3 and PE4), next to Whittlesey (5 miles), Stamford (11.4 miles), March (14 miles) and Chatteris (14.6 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Peterborough include Alwalton, Bretton, Dogsthorpe, Eastfield and Eastgate.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
