Liquid screed in Elephant Park and Aylesbury blocks
Southwark's regeneration schemes are built floor by floor, and those repeated, open floors are where pumped liquid screed comes into its own. The former Heygate estate is now Lendlease's Elephant Park, the Aylesbury in Walworth is being rebuilt in phases, and at Canada Water a masterplan approved in 2020 covers the shopping centre, printworks and dock offices. Apartment floors in blocks like these are usually floating screeds over acoustic insulation, often with underfloor heating.
In a flat, a floating liquid screed goes down from about 35mm, while commercial floors start nearer 40mm. Since the material finds its own level, reaching the SR1 or SR2 flatness that LVT, big tiles and engineered wood ask for is straightforward. Shrinkage is much lower than with a sand and cement mix, which means a big open-plan living space needs very few joints. It also fills fully around underfloor heating pipes, with no air pockets to cut the heat output, so the room warms up faster. Levels are agreed early: the insulation below, the screed and the flooring above must finish at the same height as the lift lobby and the front door of the flat, so the build-up is fixed before anything is ordered.
Whether a Southwark block gets a calcium sulphate or a cement based liquid screed is down to its specification. For the difference between the two methods in more detail, see liquid versus sand and cement screed.
Getting the pump to a Southwark flat or terrace
Mixer and pump stay out on the pavement or in the site compound, and only a hose comes in to reach the room. On a new block that normally means a loading bay and a hose run up the stair core or through an opening on the right floor. On an older street it means somewhere safe to park within reach of the front door.
Victorian terraces in Peckham, Nunhead and East Dulwich raise a different question. A side return extension at the back of a terrace is often reached only through the house, so the hose runs down the hallway under protective sheeting. That is quick and clean when planned, and it is still far less disruption than carrying dozens of barrow loads through the same hall.
Pump costs are part of the price. Hiring a pump alone runs to £300 to £600 per day on published trade rates, so one small room can work out dearer per m² than a whole flat. With us the pump arrives with the crew through our own screed pumping; we don't hire out pumps or machines on their own. Projects just over the borough boundary are covered the same way; see liquid screed in Lambeth.
Liquid Screed prices in Southwark
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 Southwark
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Southwark
Southwark is about 24.7 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SE1, SE5, SE21 and SE22. The nearest towns to it are Lambeth (2.1 miles), Lewisham (3.2 miles), Tower Hamlets (3.5 miles) and Westminster (4.2 miles).
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