Choosing a screed for Towcester's old and new homes
Census 2021 counted 11,333 people in the Towcester built-up area. For a floor, the more useful question than house type is when the building went up.
Along Watling Street East and Watling Street West there are period buildings, and the town also has conversions such as Gilbert Scott Court, in the former Union Workhouse. Period buildings like these often have old solid floors that need lifting, insulating and relaying to a level base. That is careful, hand-laid work, and a sand and cement screed for period floors is usually the right material.
Houses from the decades when Towcester grew are a common place for extensions, and there the new floor must land exactly on the old level. Across a wide extension, pumped liquid screed goes down fast, settles flat and will take foot traffic in 24 to 48 hours.
At Towcester Grange, off Stourhead Drive, developments such as The Watlings and The Furlongs bring new homes where screeds are laid over insulation, often with underfloor heating. How much cover the pipes need and how the heating is first brought up are explained on our page about heated floors in Towcester. If the drawings give a calcium sulphate grade, the specification itself is unpacked on our anhydrite flow screed page.
Sometimes the floor is sound and just uneven, and then levelling compound alone may do, for far less than new screed.
Homes in Towcester at a glance
The most common home in Towcester is a detached house (38%), ahead of semi-detached houses at 33%. By age, 33% of properties date from 1973 and 1999, the biggest single group, with 31% built since 2015.
| Homes in Towcester | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 38% |
| Semi-detached houses | 33% |
| Terraced houses | 17% |
| Flats | 10% |
| Built before 1919 | 7% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 2% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 17% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 33% |
| Built since 2000 | 42% |
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 Towcester built-up area (E63003643).
Screeding services in Towcester
- Liquid ScreedHomes at The Watlings and The Furlongs, and wide extensions, suit pumped liquid screed in Towcester, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedPeriod buildings on Watling Street and Gilbert Scott Court often need old floors relaid. We hand lay sand and cement in Towcester.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedTowcester Grange homes and extensions to later houses often have wet underfloor heating.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedTowcester Grange plots and flats may specify anhydrite screed, often CA-C25-F5 or alpha hemihydrate. We pour to the drawings and test it.
- Floor LevellingOffice refits at Lucas Bridge Business Park and extension joins in Towcester homes need a flat base. We lay levelling compound.
- Latex ScreedLucas Bridge office refits and period floors on Watling Street may need a few millimetres of latex screed in Towcester before LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingWarehouse slabs off Towcester Road and the step where a Towcester extension meets the house may need grinding. Done with 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 Towcester.
Access on the A5 and timing around a Towcester build
The A5 runs through the middle of Towcester along the line of Watling Street, and that affects how a pumped screed is delivered. For a property on the main road, the job needs a plan for where the mixer and pump can stand and how the hose reaches the room, perhaps from a side street or a rear yard. With a driveway of its own, a house is far easier to pump to. Mention how we get in when you ask us to price.
In a build programme the screed follows a weathertight shell, finished plastering and any heating pipes, laid and through their pressure test. The flooring comes after the screed has dried, and that wait depends on the depth and the material, so plan the fitter around it.
Offices and warehouses are a separate kind of work. Refits at Lucas Bridge Business Park on Old Greens Norton Road, and in the distribution warehouses marketed off Towcester Road, often need floor levelling, latex compound or a high strength screed before new flooring or racking goes in. That is work for our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Towcester 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 Towcester
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 Towcester
On the map, Towcester sits north-north-west of Slough, about 44 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including NN12), next to Northampton (8.3 miles), Buckingham (9 miles), Brackley (9.5 miles) and Daventry (11.4 miles).
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
