New town terraces to Great Ashby: Stevenage floors
Census 2021 recorded 94,462 people in the Stevenage built-up area, and much of its housing is new town terraces. So the ground floor of a new town terrace is a common place to start. In Bedwell, Broadwater, Shephall and Chells, houses from the 1950s and 1960s often have original screeds that have cracked, or old floor tiles that come up to reveal an uneven base. Some need only a skim of compound, handled by our floor levelling in Stevenage. Others need the screed taken up and relaid, usually by hand, and our sand and cement screed page covers that.
Extensions and garage conversions on the same houses are a separate job. Whether it is a converted garage or a kitchen pushed out at the back, the new insulated slab has to land flush with the original hall, and room size plus how easily we can reach it decide whether that floor is pumped in or laid by hand.
The newer end of the town works differently. Homes in the SG1 town centre scheme and the newer houses at Great Ashby call for underfloor heating screeds, acoustic floors and pumped liquid screed. For those, see liquid screed for Stevenage homes and the page on screeding over underfloor heating.
The town also takes in Old Town, Pin Green, Poplars, Symonds Green, Fishers Green, Chells Manor and Bragbury End. Wherever the house is, the first step is the same: find out what the existing floor is made of, and what height the new one has to reach.
Homes in Stevenage at a glance
Terraced houses make up 45% of the 38,344 households in Stevenage, followed by flats at 21%. The largest share of its housing, 51%, was built between 1945 and 1972, and 26% between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Stevenage | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 13% |
| Semi-detached houses | 20% |
| Terraced houses | 45% |
| Flats | 21% |
| Built before 1919 | 2% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 1% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 51% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 26% |
| Built since 2000 | 19% |
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 Stevenage built-up area (E63004113).
Screeding services in Stevenage
- Liquid ScreedNew homes in the SG1 town centre scheme and at Great Ashby are built for pumped liquid screed. We lay it flat and fast in Stevenage.
- Sand and Cement ScreedCracked original screeds in Bedwell and Shephall new town terraces often need relaying by hand.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for Great Ashby and SG1 scheme homes with heated floors from the start, and Stevenage extensions adding them.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedApartment blocks in the SG1 scheme and new Great Ashby plots specify calcium sulphate grades. We pour anhydrite to spec in Stevenage.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for Gunnels Wood labs and warehouses, and new town terraces left uneven by lifted tiles across Stevenage.
- Latex ScreedOld floor tiles in Stevenage new town terraces can stay put under latex screed, or the scarred screed below can be smoothed.
- Concrete Floor GrindingLab, production and warehouse floors at Gunnels Wood Industrial Area need old coatings ground off before a refit.
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 Stevenage.
Pump access, timing and Gunnels Wood Industrial Area units
A screed date is fixed by the trades around it. Windows in, plastering dried off and any heating loops proven under pressure: that is the state a Stevenage room needs to be in on pour day. The flooring fitter should be booked for when the screed has dried, not for when it can first be walked on.
Access is the other point to settle early. For a pumped floor, the lorry has to get close enough for our hose to reach a door; for a hand-laid one, we need a patch of ground for sand, cement and a mixer until the end of the day. If the house fronts a footpath, or the nearest parking is some distance away, tell us when you ask for a price so the hose run can be planned.
Commercial floors are handled on their own terms. Gunnels Wood Industrial Area, between the East Coast main line and the A1, is the town's main employment zone, home to MBDA and one of GSK's two global R&D hubs. Laboratory, production and warehouse buildings there call for high strength and fibre reinforced screeds, grinding and accurate levelling, and our high strength screed service covers the heavier floors.
Screeding prices for Stevenage 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 Stevenage
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 Stevenage
Stevenage is about 31.9 miles north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SG1 and SG2. The nearest towns to it are Hitchin (4.7 miles), Letchworth (5.3 miles), Baldock (6.1 miles) and Welwyn Garden City (6.8 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Stevenage include Bedwell, Bragbury End, Broadwater, Chells and Chells Manor.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.