Wide open floors in Swanley semis and terraces
A typical Swanley extension joins an existing ground floor to a new insulated slab at the back. When the wall between them comes out, the result is one long floor that should look and feel continuous. A single pumped pour gives you that in one day.
Because it flows, the material finds its own level across the whole area, so there are no hand-ruled bays to line up and far fewer joints. Low shrinkage keeps cracking down. Hitting SR1 or SR2 against a 2m straightedge is well within its reach, and you need that when big tiles or LVT run from the back doors right through to the kitchen.
How thick it goes depends on what lies below. Over insulation in a Swanley house, a floating pour begins at roughly 35mm. Run heating pipes through it and the screed must sit at least 25mm proud of them, so expect 45 to 50mm in total. The Swanley underfloor heating screed page covers the heat-up side.
Height is the other thing to get right where old and new floors meet. We set the level to the existing floor before the pour, so the finished surface lines up at the doorway without a step.
Pumping makes less sense for one compact room, or for a shower floor that must slope to a drain. Still deciding? Pumped or hand-laid: the comparison lays out the trade-offs.
Pump access on Swanley estate roads
Outside sits the pump and mixer, and a hose takes the screed indoors. How that works depends on the street.
Terraces make up 29% of Swanley homes. Where a terrace has no side passage, the hose usually runs through the front door and down a protected hall to the back. On busy roads, parked cars and narrow turning space can decide where the pump stands. Tell us about restrictions or tight spots when you ask for a price, and we plan the setup before the day. Our page on pumping screed explains the equipment.
Flats are the other case. Upstairs flats are no barrier: the hose climbs the stairwell or comes in through a window, and nothing gets wheeled along the landings.
After the pour, drying is the longer wait. Count on something like 40 days for the first 40mm, and longer for anything deeper, before flooring that dislikes damp goes down. If calcium sulphate has been poured over heating pipes, switching the system on from around day 7 hurries it along. Dartford, about 5.2 miles away, has its own pumped screed page.
Liquid Screed prices in Swanley
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 Swanley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Swanley
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 36.5 miles from Swanley, which lies to the east-south-east. Postcodes here include BR8, and Bexley (4.4 miles), Dartford (5.2 miles), Bromley (5.5 miles) and Swanscombe (6.2 miles) are close by.
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