Rebuilding old solid floors in Headless Cross and Webheath
Older houses are a small part of Redditch: 6% of homes were built before 1919. Older houses, including those in Headless Cross and Webheath, can have solid ground floors with no membrane, no insulation and a surface that has cracked or crumbled over time. A renovation is the moment to fix that properly.
In a Headless Cross or Webheath renovation that normally means breaking up the old slab, digging deep enough for the new layers, putting down a damp proof membrane and insulation, and finishing with a floating screed over them. For a domestic floor that screed is 65mm thick, rising to 75mm in commercial use. It is mixed on site, compacted by hand and trowelled to a level, durable finish ready for tiles, timber or vinyl.
If the slab beneath is solid and it is only the surface that has gone, a bonded screed can be used instead. It is laid at 25 to 40mm straight onto a prepared, primed slab and works as one with it. Details of that approach are on our bonded screed page.
The right build-up depends on the depth you have to work with, which our screed thickness guide sets out room by room. Bear in mind that a hand-laid floor dries more slowly than a liquid one, at roughly a day for each millimetre up to 40mm, so a 65mm floor has to be built into your timetable.
Wet rooms, garages and small spaces in Redditch homes
Across Redditch, smaller projects such as a second bathroom, a downstairs shower room or a converted garage call for a different approach from a large open extension. In rooms like these, a cement screed is the better pick over a calcium sulphate one.
A wet room floor has to slope gently towards the drain and cope with getting soaked. A hand-laid cement screed does both. Garage conversions often need the floor raised to meet the house and insulated at the same time, which our garage floor screed guide walks through.
Small and awkward rooms favour hand laying too, because there is no pump to set up and the mix can be adjusted to each area. Adding fibres to the mix cuts the risk of cracking for roughly £1 to £3 more per m², and if the timetable is short a faster drying screed is available. If the floor will take early load, such as a garage that will see a car, cement based is the safer choice.
For budgeting, 2026 published rates for this kind of floor run from £18 to £25 per m², with depth and access deciding where yours falls.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Redditch
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 Redditch
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 Redditch
Redditch is about 77.1 miles north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including B97 and B98. The nearest towns to it are Solihull (10.1 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon (12.7 miles), Evesham (14.8 miles) and Warwick (15 miles).
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