Open floors in Totton where a pumped screed pays
Pumping pays its way on big floors with few walls to break them up. Poured, it spreads out flat by itself, reaches SR1 or SR2 readily, and moves so little as it sets that a hand-laid floor of the same size would need many more joints. Picture a kitchen and family room running the whole width of a Totton semi, or a single-storey extension that has to join up with the floor of the existing house.
Newer houses suit it too, though there are not many of them: 10% of the town's homes date from 2000 onwards. Those were usually designed with insulated ground floors meant for a flowing screed, and some already have heating pipes clipped down. If yours does, our Totton underfloor heating screed page explains how much cover the pipes need and when the heating can be switched on.
Liquid screed is also thinner. Depth is the other reason. In a house, floated over insulation, liquid goes in at about 35mm, while the same floor in sand and cement would want about 65mm, and in a semi with a new extension those spare millimetres often decide whether the extension floor runs flush into the old threshold.
Liquid screed comes in two broad families: one with a calcium sulphate binder, the other with cement. Which one we use depends on whether the floor could ever get wet and how quickly you want to cover it. The calcium sulphate grades we pour in Totton have their own page, and our guide comparing pumped and hand-laid screeds puts the two methods next to each other.
Getting the hose into Testwood and Hounsdown homes
We leave the pump outside and run the hose in through whichever door is closest. In Testwood, Hounsdown or any other part of town, a driveway or an open front garden keeps that straightforward. Where the house is in a terrace or the street has parking restrictions, the mixer might need to stand in the street for a few hours, so let us know about yellow lines, shared passages or awkward corners at the quoting stage. A hose will go along a hall or up the stairs, provided the way is clear and covered.
The room itself has to be set up before anything flows. Before the pump starts, a perimeter strip has to run round the walls, the insulation must be sheeted over with membrane and every joint taped, and a dam fixed across each doorway so nothing escapes into the hall. We go over all of it when we arrive. How the pump and mixer are arranged is described on our screed pumping page.
Being able to stand on the floor does not mean it has dried. Allow about one day for each millimetre of the first 40mm, with drying slowing down after that, and get the moisture tested before any floor covering is laid.
Liquid Screed prices in Totton
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 Totton
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Totton
Totton is about 56 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO40. The nearest towns to it are Southampton (3.8 miles), Romsey (4.9 miles), Eastleigh (6.9 miles) and Hedge End (8.1 miles).
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