Which screed suits which St Albans home
Census 2021 counted 75,544 people in the St Albans built-up area, and their homes cover almost every period since the Victorians. The floor under each one tells you which screed is likely to follow.
Start with the terraces. In Fleetville, streets such as Camp View Road are lined with bay-fronted Victorian houses, and homes of that age usually have suspended timber boards or an early solid floor laid with no membrane beneath it. Renovating one normally means lifting the old floor, putting in an insulated slab and finishing with a new screed. Rooms are narrow and the levels are fixed by old thresholds, which suits a hand-laid sand and cement screed for older houses.
Many of those renovations add heating at the same time. Pipes buried in that new slab need a set depth of screed on top, which is worth knowing before anyone fixes the dig-out depth; our page on heated floors in St Albans gives the figures.
Semis built between the wars or in the decades after 1945 raise a different floor question. Here the work is usually a rear extension whose new floor has to meet the existing one exactly. A pumped liquid screed for open-plan extensions flows flat across a large room in a day and is thinner than a traditional screed, which helps when the target level is fixed.
A floor that is solid underfoot but out of flat can often skip the full screed. Our floor levelling service in St Albans uses self levelling compound to bring it within tolerance for LVT, tiles or engineered wood.
Homes in St Albans at a glance
Of the 30,405 households in St Albans, 30% live in semi-detached houses and 26% in flats. The largest group of homes here was built between 1945 and 1972 (27%), and a further 23% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in St Albans | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 19% |
| Semi-detached houses | 30% |
| Terraced houses | 23% |
| Flats | 26% |
| Built before 1919 | 17% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 17% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 27% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 23% |
| Built since 2000 | 16% |
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 St Albans built-up area (E63004441).
Screeding services in St Albans
- Liquid ScreedRear extensions on St Albans' inter-war and post-war semis suit pumped liquid screed: flat, thin and walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedVictorian terraces in Fleetville often need an old floor dug out and relaid.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedRenovated Victorian terraces in St Albans often gain underfloor heating in the new slab. We lay the screed over the pipes to depth.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedApartment floors and new-build plots in St Albans often name a CA grade of anhydrite flow screed. We pour to spec, then sand it.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Porters Wood unit refits, or a step where an extension meets an old St Albans floor, flat for LVT, tiles or wood.
- Latex ScreedOverboarded timber floors in Fleetville terraces and firmly stuck old tiles in St Albans kitchens can take latex screed.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Porters Wood units and St Albans extensions, with old glue, paint and bay ridges removed under 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 St Albans.
Access, parking and timing a pour in St Albans
Areas we cover include Bernards Heath, Jersey Farm, Marshalswick, New Greens, Sopwell, St Julians, St Stephens, The Camp and Townsend, and postcodes here include AL1, AL3 and AL4. Across all of them, two practical questions come before the price: where the equipment will stand, and when the floor can be poured.
A traditional screed is mixed close to the house, so it needs space for sand, cement and a mixer for the day. A liquid screed arrives ready to pump, and the hose runs from the pump through the nearest door. On a terraced street with residents' parking, say so when you ask for a quote, so any bay suspension or permit can be arranged in advance.
The pour date is set by whoever works before and after us. By then the roof and windows should be keeping the rain out, the plasterer's wet work should be done, and any heating loops should have passed their pressure test. After it, allow for drying before the flooring fitter comes, because that is the stage a programme most often squeezes.
Units on the north side of the city are planned differently. Porters Wood, about a mile north of the city centre, takes in the Gryphon Industrial Park, the Caxton Centre, Beech Industrial Centre and Spring Valley Business Centre. Light industrial and hi-tech units there often need floor preparation before a refit, concrete repair or a new screed when they are refitted.
Screeding prices for St Albans 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 St Albans
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 St Albans
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 20.1 miles from St Albans, which lies to the north-east. Postcodes here include AL3, AL4 and AL1, and Harpenden (4.5 miles), Hatfield (5.2 miles), Hemel Hempstead (5.7 miles) and Welwyn Garden City (6.7 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in St Albans include Bernards Heath, Fleetville, Jersey Farm, Marshalswick and New Greens.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
