Which screed suits which kind of Polegate home
Census 2021 counted 10,067 people in the Polegate built-up area. Their homes range from older properties around the High Street and Church Road to later housing spreading towards Willingdon, and each end of that range tends to need a different floor.
Much of Polegate grew after the railway arrived in 1846. When an older house around the High Street or Church Road has a ground floor that has cracked, dropped or let damp through, it is normally dug out, insulated, given a membrane and relaid by hand as a compacted sand and cement floor. It suits narrow rooms and awkward thresholds. Where the old slab is sound and only the surface has worn, a bonded screed of 25 to 40mm laid onto it may be enough, which saves digging out.
Extensions and kitchen knock-throughs are common right across the town. The new floor has to meet the existing one at exactly the same level, and a wide, open room is often quicker and flatter with a pumped liquid screed for extensions. Plenty of owners heat the new space from below, so the underfloor heating screed page covers pipe cover and the warm-up schedule.
Drawings for a Polegate extension or new plot sometimes list a calcium sulphate grade picked by the architect or builder. The anhydrite flow screed page explains what CA-C25-F5 and similar codes mean, and why the surface must be sanded before any flooring goes down.
Homes in Polegate at a glance
The most common home in Polegate is a semi-detached house (49%), ahead of detached houses at 22%. By age, 50% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 18% built between the wars.
| Homes in Polegate | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 22% |
| Semi-detached houses | 49% |
| Terraced houses | 13% |
| Flats | 15% |
| Built before 1919 | 5% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 18% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 50% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 11% |
| Built since 2000 | 16% |
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 Polegate built-up area (E63006546).
Screeding services in Polegate
- Liquid ScreedKitchen knock-throughs towards Willingdon suit pumped liquid screed, flat and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOlder Polegate houses around Church Road can need a failed solid floor dug out and relaid in sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedHeated extensions in Polegate need the right pipe cover and a slow warm-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedSpecifying anhydrite screed in Polegate? K & B lays CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 grades, sands off the laitance and tests moisture.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling to SR1 or SR2 for uneven post-war floors and Dittons Road unit refits in Polegate, ready for LVT, tiles and wood.
- Latex ScreedA Polegate semi with old quarry tiles or plywood under the kitchen floor can take a thin latex screed first.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for worn slabs in Chaucer Industrial Business Park Estate units and Polegate garages, 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 Polegate.
Access, parking and timing a pour in Polegate
The A22 and A27 meet within the town boundary, so getting a mixer lorry and pump to the town is rarely the issue. The harder part is the last stretch. Your street needs a legal spot for the mixer near the house, then the hose is fed through a side gate, the garage or the front door to reach the room. On a semi with a shared drive, a quick word with the neighbours before pour day saves a lot of trouble.
Then there is the question of when. We pour only once the shell is weathertight, insulation and membrane are down, and your plumber has fitted any heating pipes and pressure tested them. Liquid screed can usually be walked on after 24 to 48 hours, but it still has to dry before flooring, so plan the kitchen fitting and tiling around that rather than around the pour date.
Businesses are covered too. Most of Polegate's industrial firms are based at the Chaucer Industrial Business Park Estate on Dittons Road, where a change of tenant can mean worn concrete that needs repairing or levelling for a new floor finish before racking or machinery arrives. Larger commercial floors are surveyed and priced as their own job.
Screeding prices for Polegate 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 Polegate
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 Polegate
On the map, Polegate sits south-east of Slough, about 62.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BN26), next to Hailsham (3 miles), Eastbourne (4.1 miles), Seaford (7.2 miles) and Newhaven (8.9 miles).
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
