Pumping liquid screed into Reading terraces and flats
Out on the street is where every pumped job begins. The mixer lorry delivers into a pump, and the pump sends the screed down a hose to the room being floored. At a detached house with off-road parking, nothing could be easier. On a street of Reading terraces where kerb space is tight, we plan where the lorry stands, how long the hose must be and which route it takes through the house, and we protect floors and doorways along the way.
Flats are handled the same way, just vertically. The hose can run up a stairwell or through an upper window, so a second or third floor apartment in the centre is well within reach. Liquid screed makes particular sense there, because a whole flat can be poured in one visit and the surface can reach SR1 or SR2 without hand trowelling.
How deep we pour is set by what lies underneath. Floating on insulation in a home, the minimum is around 35mm, with roughly 40mm for commercial space. If heating pipes are down, we keep 25mm or more above them, so expect 45 to 50mm in all.
Pumped screed comes as a calcium sulphate or a cement based mix, and conditions on site point to one or the other. Calcium sulphate is covered in detail on our anhydrite screed page for Reading. If you would rather compare methods first, the liquid versus traditional screed guide sets it out.
Extensions and newer homes in Tilehurst and Caversham
The semis of suburbs such as Tilehurst and Caversham suit rear extensions, and an extension that opens into the kitchen is a natural fit for a flowing screed. One wide floor, poured in a morning, settles flat across the whole space with far fewer joints than a sand and cement floor would need. Low shrinkage keeps cracking down, and because the screed flows round any heating pipes, no voids are left under the finish.
Reading's younger houses come into it as well. Houses built from 2000 to 2014 are 11% of Reading's stock, and those from 2015 onwards a further 9%. When one of them gains a garden room or extension, a pumped screed matches the flat, modern floor next to it.
Drying is where expectations need managing. Being able to stroll over it within a couple of days says nothing about whether the boards or tiles can go down; that waits on drying and a test. Roughly a day per millimetre for the first 40mm is the working guide, with the rate slowing beyond that. Our page on how long screed takes to dry covers this in more depth. Just east of the town, we also pour flowing screed in Woodley.
Liquid Screed prices in Reading
Liquid screed: £24 to £31 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £960 to £1,240 for 40 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your liquid screed in Reading
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Reading
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 15.2 miles from Reading, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include RG1, RG31, RG4 and RG30, and Woodley (2.9 miles), Henley-on-Thames (6.5 miles), Wokingham (6.8 miles) and Crowthorne (9.8 miles) are close by.
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