Choosing a screed for a Sevenoaks house
Census 2021 recorded 26,474 people in the Sevenoaks built-up area, and 40% of its homes are detached. Big houses tend to produce big floor projects: an open-plan kitchen and family room across the back of the house, a basement turned into living space, or a full ground floor stripped back to the slab. The right screed follows from what the room will become.
Where an extension or a new basement floor is wide and open, pumped liquid screed in Sevenoaks lays the whole area in one visit and settles flat with few joints. Where heating pipes are going into the floor, which is typical of open-plan kitchen projects at this scale, the depth over the pipes and the warm-up plan are covered on our underfloor heating screed page.
The older housing is a different job. Houses built before 1919 may need their original floors lifting and replacing with insulation, a membrane and a new screed. In small rooms, hallways and bathrooms, a hand-laid sand and cement screed usually suits that kind of rebuild.
If an architect has named a calcium sulphate grade on the drawings, read our anhydrite flow screed notes before the pour is booked, because the material brings its own drying, sanding and testing steps. Not every Sevenoaks floor needs rescreeding: where the slab underneath is firm and just uneven, a thin skim of compound may be all that is needed before the stone or timber is laid.
Homes in Sevenoaks at a glance
The most common home in Sevenoaks is a detached house (40%), ahead of semi-detached houses at 22%. By age, 26% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 23% built before 1919.
| Homes in Sevenoaks | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 40% |
| Semi-detached houses | 22% |
| Terraced houses | 17% |
| Flats | 20% |
| Built before 1919 | 23% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 17% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 26% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 21% |
| Built since 2000 | 13% |
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 Sevenoaks built-up area (E63005459).
Screeding services in Sevenoaks
- Liquid ScreedWide kitchen extensions and basements in Sevenoaks suit pumped liquid screed, laid flat in one visit and walkable in 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedLifting old floors in a pre-1919 Sevenoaks house? A hand-laid sand and cement screed over insulation often suits.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for heated kitchen extensions and basements in Sevenoaks, right cover over the pipes and a slow first heat-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite screed to CA-C25-F5, or an alpha hemihydrate mix, for a Sevenoaks apartment or basement, pumped, tested and floor ready.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Bligh's and High Street shop refits and older Sevenoaks homes, to SR1 or SR2 before LVT, tiles or timber.
- Latex ScreedOverboarded floors and firm old tiles in Sevenoaks kitchen and bathroom refits: latex screed a few mm thick for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for trade units off the A225 and Bligh's shop refits in Sevenoaks: high spots, glue and paint removed.
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 Sevenoaks.
Pump access and pour dates around Sevenoaks
A Sevenoaks pour date gets fixed by the other trades, because screeding falls halfway through the build. We want the roof and windows keeping the rain out, the plasterers' wet work done and the heating pipes pressure tested by the day our team arrives. Once it is down, the floor needs drying time before stone, engineered timber or LVT can go on, and with high-value finishes that time should end with a moisture test rather than a guess.
Access shapes the day as much as the date. Postcodes here include TN13, TN14 and TN15, and the area takes in Chipstead, Bessels Green, Bayley's Hill, Wildernesse, Fig Street, Longford and Noah's Ark as well as the centre. A detached plot with a drive usually gives the mixer and pump somewhere to stand close to the house. Town centre addresses and terraced streets are harder, so tell us about parking restrictions, gates, steep drives or a long walk from the road when you ask for a price.
Commercial work runs to a different timetable. The main industrial area lies north of the town along the A225, and Sevenoaks Quarry works on Bat and Ball Road; trade units and workshops there may need a new wearing screed or repairs between tenants. In the centre, High Street shops and the Bligh's development see fit-outs where the floor has to be ready for the shopfitter on a fixed date. Our commercial screeding team handles that side of the work.
Screeding prices for Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is about 40.4 miles east-south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including TN13 and TN15. The nearest towns to it are Tonbridge (6.4 miles), Oxted (8.5 miles), Swanley (8.8 miles) and Bromley (9.6 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Sevenoaks include Bessels Green, Chipstead, Fig Street, Greatness and Kippington.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
