Old core, council estates and new streets in Soham
Soham is the second largest settlement in East Cambridgeshire, and Census 2021 counted 10,609 people in its built-up area. Broadly, the town's floors sort into three kinds, and each kind leads to its own service.
The historic core around the High Street, Hall Street and Churchgate Street forms the Soham Conservation Area. Many houses there are Georgian or Victorian, and older properties around Hall Street, Pratt Street and Townsend can still have original solid floors. Once dug up, such a floor generally goes back as insulation boards, polythene and a hand-laid screed suited to old Soham houses.
Council housing spread from the 1950s, beginning with Downfields south of the centre, and the town grew quickly east and west from the late 1960s. Those streets are typical candidates for extensions and knock-through kitchens, where the new floor has to meet the old one exactly. A thin compound through our floor levelling work often finishes the join.
Off Fordham Road and Sand Street, the newer houses lend themselves to wet heating pipes buried in a flowing screed. How much cover those pipes want, and how to warm them the first time, sit on the heated floor screed page; getting the mix from lorry to room is on the pumped liquid screed page.
Some 28% of Soham homes stand detached. Add a back extension or convert the garage on one of those, and the fresh floor needs insulating and screeding up until it meets the house.
Homes in Soham at a glance
Semi-detached houses make up 35% of the 4,506 households in Soham, followed by detached houses at 28%. By age, 29% of properties date from 1973 and 1999, the biggest single group, with 22% built between 2000 and 2014.
| Homes in Soham | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 28% |
| Semi-detached houses | 35% |
| Terraced houses | 22% |
| Flats | 13% |
| Built before 1919 | 15% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 6% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 15% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 29% |
| Built since 2000 | 35% |
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 Soham built-up area (E63003129).
Screeding services in Soham
- Liquid ScreedNewer Soham estates off Fordham Road and Sand Street suit flowing floors. Pumped liquid screed is walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOlder houses near Hall Street and Pratt Street can still have original solid floors. We hand-lay sand and cement screed in Soham.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedHeated kitchens in 1970s to 1990s Soham homes and new Fordham Road houses need the right pipe cover. K & B screeds wet underfloor heating.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedCalcium sulphate for a Soham plot? We pour anhydrite to CA-C20-F4, CA-C25-F5 or CA-C30-F6, with laitance and moisture advice.
- Floor LevellingRefitting a Northfield Business Park unit or joining a Soham extension to an old floor? Self levelling compound to SR1.
- Latex ScreedKitchen or bathroom refit in a Georgian or Victorian Soham house? Latex screed smooths plywood, old tiles and tired concrete.
- Concrete Floor GrindingNew and refitted units at Northfield Business Park and off Station Road need clean slabs. Soham floor grinding 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 Soham.
Planning a pour on a Soham build
On a Soham extension, screeding falls halfway through. By the time our van pulls up, glazing and doors should be fitted and the shell keeping the rain out. Plastering can be done before or after, depending on the builder, but flooring always comes last, once the screed has dried.
Have the layers down: insulation boards, polythene, edge strip, and where heating is going in, pipes your heating engineer has fixed and put under a pressure test. We check each layer on the day.
Access is worth thinking about early. Liquid means parking a mixer and pump close by; sand and cement means finding room for a mixer plus heaps of sand and bags of cement. Tell us whether the house has a drive or only parking on the road, so the position is agreed before the day.
Then allow for drying. It is the drying time, not the pour, that sets when the kitchen fitter and floor layer can start. Our floor screeding cost guide shows how the main choices affect price. Drawings naming calcium sulphate are dealt with on the anhydrite flow screed page.
Screeding prices for Soham 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 Soham
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 Soham
Soham is about 69.4 miles north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including CB7. The nearest towns to it are Ely (5.7 miles), Newmarket (6.7 miles), Cambridge (12.8 miles) and Chatteris (15.1 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Soham include North Field and Soham Cotes.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
