Replacing old solid floors near the Causeway
Houses built before 1919 make up 14% of Petersfield's homes, and many of them stand around the centre and the Causeway. Their ground floors can have no damp proof membrane at all, and some are laid directly on earth. When one fails, or when an owner wants a warmer floor, patching rarely lasts.
The usual answer is to dig the old floor out to a depth that leaves room for a new build-up: insulation, a membrane lapped up the walls, then screed. Floating over that insulation in an older house near the Causeway, the sand and cement layer needs to be roughly 65mm thick. We can supply and fit the layers underneath through our insulation and membranes service, so one team is responsible for the whole floor.
Where the building is listed, check what consent is needed before anything historic is removed. The design may also need to keep the old walls breathing, which affects the choice of membrane and how it meets the wall.
Excavation is not always the answer. If a concrete slab is sound, a thinner screed can be fully bonded to it, from about 25 to 40mm, with the surface prepared and primed first. That can save depth where door heights are tight. Whether a slab is good enough for that is covered under bonded screed.
Hand-laid screed suits these jobs because each room can be mixed and laid to its own depth, and small, awkward spaces are simple to work in without a pump.
Wet rooms, garages and small spaces in Petersfield
Terraced houses account for 23% of Petersfield's homes, and in houses without side access, a hand-mixed screed can be barrowed through in manageable loads. A small room or two is often cheaper done this way than by booking a pump.
Shower rooms in Petersfield's terraces are a good case for it. We can trowel it so the floor falls gently to the shower drain, and water that would harm calcium sulphate does it no damage. The same goes for utility rooms and ground floors that may see damp.
Garages are another common use, whether as a workshop floor or as part of a conversion into living space. Our garage floor screed guide covers raising the floor, insulation and matching the house level.
What you give up is time. For the first 40mm, allow about a day per millimetre of thickness, and the last part dries more slowly still, so a 65mm floor in a Petersfield terrace takes weeks before most coverings can go on. Where tiles are promised for a set week, ask about a faster drying sand and cement mix to close the gap. Adding fibres, at £1 to £3 per m², gives the screed more resistance to cracking.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Petersfield
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 Petersfield
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 Petersfield
Petersfield is about 38.6 miles south-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including GU32, GU31 and GU33. The nearest towns to it are Horndean (7.3 miles), Alton (10.1 miles), Havant (10.4 miles) and Emsworth (10.8 miles).
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