Where a pumped floor makes sense in Solihull
Pumping makes sense when the floor is big, open-plan or a long walk from the road for anyone pushing a barrow. A rear extension that becomes one room with the old kitchen is the clearest example. The screed is pumped straight from the mixer, flows out to a level surface and closes up around any heating pipes, so a large floor is usually covered in a single day.
It sets dense and flat; checked with a 2m straightedge, it readily reaches SR1 or SR2, which counts when large tiles, LVT or engineered boards are going on top. Because it barely shrinks, one long open-plan room can go down with far fewer joints than the same area in sand and cement.
How thick it goes comes down to the build-up below: laid floating over insulation, it starts from about 35mm in a house and 40mm in commercial premises. You can normally walk across it after 24 to 48 hours, but full drying is slower, at around a day for each mm up to 40mm and longer for any depth beyond. It comes as either a calcium sulphate or a cement based mix, and which one fits depends on the room and the finish planned for it.
Purpose-built blocks hold 14% of Solihull homes, and an upper-floor flat in one suits pumping well: the hose goes up the stairwell and nobody carries bags up the flights. If you are still weighing up the options, our comparison of liquid and sand and cement screed puts them next to each other.
Getting the pump hose into a Solihull home
On the day, the pump and the mixer lorry sit on your drive or in the road, and the hose goes either through the house or down the side path. A detached Solihull house with its own drive makes that easy. On a semi with a shared side access, or a road with parking controls, we need to know before the day so the pump is positioned without blocking neighbours.
Inside, preparation decides the result. The insulation is laid tight, a membrane is taped at every joint and turned up the walls, and an edge strip runs round the perimeter so the screed can move. A liquid screed will find any gap, so a poorly sealed membrane means screed in the insulation instead of on top of it.
Newer homes, such as those in the village at Blythe Valley Park, are more likely to need part of an existing liquid floor cut out and made good than a new pour. That work comes under our screed repairs service. Building in Kenilworth instead? Our Kenilworth liquid screed page covers that town.
Liquid Screed prices in Solihull
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 Solihull
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Solihull
On the map, Solihull sits north-west of Slough, about 77.7 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including B91, B26, B92 and B90), next to Kenilworth (9.7 miles), Redditch (10.1 miles), Coventry (11.4 miles) and Warwick (12 miles).
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