Which screed fits which Raunds house
Census 2021 recorded 10,231 people in the Raunds built-up area. Semis make up 39% of homes, and most of the rest are detached or terraced houses, so the typical job is a family house rather than a flat. What varies is the age of that house.
The old town clusters around Church Street, Manor Street and Thorpe Street. In the old centre, a solid floor that has gone tired is normally dug out and rebuilt from the bottom up: insulation first, then a membrane, then a hand-laid sand and cement screed for older floors. It copes with small rooms, steps and wet areas better than a pumped product.
Later houses across the town are common candidates for extensions. Put a kitchen or garden room on the back of one and you get a broad, open floor, the kind pumped liquid screed in Raunds handles well, because it finds its own level and takes foot traffic after 24 to 48 hours. Heating pipes in that new room raise two extra questions, how much screed sits over them and how the first warm-up is run, and our underfloor heating screed page answers both.
Building continues at small schemes such as Amber Fields, with three and four bedroom homes at Clay Pit Close. Where a new build specification names a calcium sulphate flow screed and a grade, that is a separate material question. Where a floor is sound but only uneven, levelling compound before new flooring is often enough, and it costs far less than a new screed.
Homes in Raunds at a glance
Of the 4,284 households in Raunds, 39% live in semi-detached houses and 37% in detached houses. By age, 32% of properties date from 1973 and 1999, the biggest single group, with 23% built between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Raunds | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 37% |
| Semi-detached houses | 39% |
| Terraced houses | 18% |
| Flats | 6% |
| Built before 1919 | 13% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 7% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 23% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 32% |
| 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 Raunds built-up area (E63003134).
Screeding services in Raunds
- Liquid ScreedNew homes at Amber Fields and extensions to later houses make open floors that suit pumped liquid screed in Raunds.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOlder Raunds homes round Church Street and Manor Street may have tired solid floors. We relay them in hand-laid sand and cement.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed over wet systems in extensions to later Raunds houses, with the right pipe cover and a slow first warm-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedNew Raunds plots may specify CA-C25-F5 or another anhydrite grade. We pour to the drawings and sand off the laitance.
- Floor LevellingOffice fit-outs at Warth Park and uneven floors in older Raunds homes need a flat base before LVT or tiles. We lay levelling compound.
- Latex ScreedKitchen and bathroom refits in older Raunds houses often meet overboarded floors or old tiles. We lay latex screed for vinyl and LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Warth Park office floors and Raunds garage slabs, taking off high spots and old adhesive 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 Raunds.
Planning the pour, from Thorpe Street to Warth Park
Fix the screed date by the trades either side of it. Hold the pour until the extension is sealed against rain, the wet plastering is finished and any heating pipes have passed a pressure test. After that comes drying time, and only then the tiles, LVT or timber, which is why the flooring fitter's date hangs off the screed date and not the reverse.
Access matters on the day. The mixer and pump stand outside, and the hose has to reach the door from wherever they park. Whether the house is in the old town near St Peter's Church or on a newer road, tell us about parking, shared passages or tight side access when you ask for a price, so the plan is settled before anyone arrives. Off-road parking on your own drive makes that easy.
Warth Park is another matter altogether. It is a logistics and business park of about 160 acres beside the A45, with distribution centres for Howdens Joinery, DPD, Airwair International and DSV, and three storey office blocks inside steel framed warehouses. Floors there need to be flat and hard wearing, existing slabs may need repair, and levelling often comes before racking or new finishes. Our commercial screeding service handles that scale of work.
Screeding prices for Raunds 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 Raunds
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 Raunds
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 56.4 miles from Raunds, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include NN9, and Rushden (4.6 miles), Burton Latimer (6.2 miles), Wellingborough (7.3 miles) and Kettering (9 miles) are close by.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
