Which screed suits which St Ives home
Census 2021 recorded 16,818 people living in the St Ives built-up area, and their houses lean heavily towards one era: 51% went up between 1973 and 1999. Most owners here live in a semi or a detached house from the 1950s to the 1990s, and that tells you a lot about what the floors in town tend to need.
Put a rear extension on one of those houses, or knock the kitchen through to the dining room, and the new floor has to line up with the old slab to the millimetre. That is where a pumped liquid screed for open plan floors earns its place: it settles flat quickly and fills around heating pipes if the room is to be heated.
The town has only a small number of houses from before 1919. When one of them has a solid floor that has cracked or lost its damp protection, we take it out and relay it by hand in traditional sand and cement screed, the same material that suits garages and wet rooms.
Then there is the river. The Great Ouse has flooded St Ives more than once, which is why defences went in along both banks in 2006 to 2007. In the riverside parts of town that sit lower, a floor may need a membrane under a cement based screed, because calcium sulphate should be kept out of rooms that could get wet.
Off Houghton Road, Houghton Grange and The Spires are adding new homes. If the drawings for a plot there name a CA grade, the page on anhydrite flow screed tells you what that means. And if your floor is solid but simply uneven, self levelling compound may be all it needs.
Homes in St Ives at a glance
The most common home in St Ives is a semi-detached house (32%), ahead of detached houses at 29%. The largest share of its housing, 51%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 26% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in St Ives | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 29% |
| Semi-detached houses | 32% |
| Terraced houses | 24% |
| Flats | 13% |
| Built before 1919 | 7% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 3% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 26% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 51% |
| 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 St Ives (Huntingdonshire) built-up area (E63003147).
Screeding services in St Ives
- Liquid ScreedExtending a 1970s to 1990s St Ives semi? Pumped liquid screed lays a flat floor flush with the old slab in a single day.
- Sand and Cement ScreedDug-out floors near the St Ives riverside, garages and wet rooms: hand-laid sand and cement screed that copes with damp.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for extensions on older St Ives homes and new builds at The Spires, right pipe cover and a slow heat-up.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedAnhydrite flow screed to CA-C25-F5 for a St Ives plot or apartment, pumped in with laitance and testing advice handed over.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for a lip where a St Ives extension meets the old house, or a refit at Compass Point Business Park, LVT and tile ready.
- Latex ScreedRefitting the kitchen or bathroom in a St Ives semi? Latex screed smooths plywood, firm old tiles and worn concrete for vinyl or LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingWorkshop and trade unit slabs on Edison Road and Roman Way, ground clean of paint, glue and lips 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 St Ives.
Build timing and access around St Ives
On a St Ives build the screed falls halfway through, so the other trades decide when we can come. We need the room closed in against the weather, with windows and outside doors fitted and any wet plaster done. If pipes are going under the floor, your heating installer should have them down and pressure tested. Pencil in the pour once all that is close, and let the drying period decide when the tiler or floor fitter arrives, rather than squeezing the screed to suit their diary.
For a pumped pour, the mixer and pump have to stand close enough for the hose to reach the door. A house with its own drive makes that easy. If yours is on a tighter street with restricted parking, a shared path or a narrow side passage, mention it at the quoting stage and we will plan around it before the day. Sand and cement comes in smaller loads that we wheel in by barrow, which can be the better option on a cramped site.
Commercial units need different thinking. Along Edison Road and Burrel Road, on Roman Way Industrial Estate and at Compass Point Business Park on Stocks Bridge Way there are workshops, trade units and warehouses whose floors may need repairing, levelling or a tougher screed when a new tenant moves in. That work comes under our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for St Ives 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 Ives
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching St Ives
On the map, St Ives sits north-north-east of Slough, about 59.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PE27), next to Huntingdon (4.7 miles), Chatteris (10.6 miles), St Neots (10.6 miles) and Cambridge (11.6 miles).
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
