Where liquid screed fits in Stroud's housing
Liquid screed is at home on open floors. It is mixed at the lorry, pumped through a hose into the room and left to find its own level, reaching SR1 or SR2 surface regularity without the tamping and ruling of a hand-laid floor. Its low shrinkage means fewer joints, and it flows around underfloor heating pipes with no voids.
Stroud's housing is older than most, with only 14% of homes built since 2000, so the open floors that suit a pump mostly come from alterations rather than whole estates. Post-war semis are the usual candidates for extension and kitchen floors, and a single-storey rear extension gives a clean floor that a pump can cover in one visit. The new homes at Brimscombe Port, where around 150 are planned around a restored basin, are the other obvious case.
Flats are the third. They make up 17% of Stroud's homes, and an upper floor apartment can be poured in one visit with the hose run up the stairs.
Thickness depends on the build-up. Floating over insulation, a home floor starts at about 35mm and a business unit at 40mm. Where heating runs through it, at least 25mm must cover the pipes. There are calcium sulphate and cement based mixes to choose from, and the room and its floor covering decide which. Expect a day's drying for each of the first 40 millimetres, with anything thicker drying more slowly.
Pumping up Stroud's steep streets
The pump is where Stroud differs from flatter towns. A mixer lorry and pump need somewhere safe to stand, and on a steep street the kerb may not be level enough or wide enough. Where the house sits above the road with steps to the door, the hose has further to climb. None of that rules out liquid screed, but it needs planning.
When you ask for a price, send a note or photo of the street, where a vehicle could park and the route to the room. Hose runs can go through a side gate, up a stairwell or in through a window. If there is truly no way to get a pump close, a hand-laid screed is carried in instead, and we will say so.
Rates published for 2026 put liquid screed at £24 to £31 per m², and hiring a pump on its own costs £300 to £600 a day. Our crew brings the pump with them, and we never hire one out on its own. Our screed pumping page explains the pour day, and liquid screed vs sand and cement compares the two. For the city about 8.3 miles away, see liquid screed in Gloucester.
Liquid Screed prices in Stroud
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 Stroud
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Stroud
On the map, Stroud sits west-north-west of Slough, about 69.2 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GL5, GL10 and GL6), next to Gloucester (8.3 miles), Cirencester (10.9 miles), Cheltenham (12.3 miles) and Yate (16.6 miles).
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