Tower Hamlets floors, from the East End to Docklands
Wartime bombing destroyed more than 46,000 houses here and damaged thousands more, so the borough's housing is strikingly young: 47% of homes were built in 2000 or later. Postcodes here include E1, E1W, E2, E3, E9 and E14.
Flats shape almost everything. Tower fit outs on the Isle of Dogs, at Blackwall and in Limehouse need pumped liquid screed for apartment floors, laid over acoustic insulation and often over heating, many storeys up. Heating pipes going into your flat? How deep the screed sits over them and how the first warm-up goes are covered under screed for heated floors in Tower Hamlets. And if a tower's engineer has called up a calcium sulphate grade, our anhydrite page walks through what that means for sanding and moisture checks.
The Docklands homes of the 1980s and 1990s around Millwall and Cubitt Town are now due for refurbishment, and older concrete floors in post-war estates can need levelling before new finishes go down. For both, floor levelling with self levelling compound is usually the first thing to look at, with a new screed only where the base has failed.
The borough's small surviving pre-1919 stock brings the occasional renovation where a floor needs a new membrane and screed. Those jobs, and wet rooms in flats of any age, suit a hand-laid sand and cement screed.
We cover the whole borough, from Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Shadwell and Wapping to Bethnal Green, Globe Town, Bow, Old Ford, Poplar and Hackney Wick.
Homes in Tower Hamlets at a glance
Tower Hamlets is mostly flats (86% of homes), with terraced houses next at 9%. The largest group of homes here was built between 2000 and 2014 (25%), and a further 22% since 2015.
| Homes in Tower Hamlets | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 1% |
| Semi-detached houses | 2% |
| Terraced houses | 9% |
| Flats | 86% |
| Built before 1919 | 12% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 4% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 19% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 19% |
| Built since 2000 | 47% |
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 London Borough of Tower Hamlets (E09000030).
Screeding services in Tower Hamlets
- Liquid ScreedTower fit outs on the Isle of Dogs, Blackwall and Limehouse run on pumped liquid screed.
- Sand and Cement ScreedPre-1919 houses are rare in Tower Hamlets, but their floors need careful work.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedTower Hamlets fit outs on the Isle of Dogs, Blackwall and Limehouse include underfloor heating.
- Anhydrite & Flow Screed71 skyscrapers in a decade make Tower Hamlets apartment floors natural ground for calcium sulphate.
- Floor LevellingDocklands homes in Millwall and Cubitt Town are due a refit, and older estate floors need levelling first.
- Latex ScreedBathroom and kitchen refits in Tower Hamlets flats, from Stepney to Mile End: latex screed over old tiles, ply and concrete.
- Concrete Floor GrindingOffice refits at Canary Wharf and studio floors on Fish Island start on a clean slab: Tower Hamlets grinding with dust 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 Tower Hamlets.
Lifts, loading bays and timing in Tower Hamlets
Getting screed into a flat is a logistics question before it is a flooring one. A pump needs a place to stand, often a loading bay, and a hose route up the building. A hand-laid screed needs a goods lift or a stair route for bags and barrows. Most blocks have a managing agent who will want notice, permits, protection of common parts and agreed working hours. Give us the floor number, the lift size and the house rules of the block at the outset, and the day gets planned around them.
Timing is the other half. In a Tower Hamlets flat we pour only after the plaster is done, the flat is sealed up with its windows and doors in place, and your heating engineer has pressure tested whatever pipes are down. Drying follows, and its length depends on how deep the screed is and what kind, so the flooring fitter's date comes after the screed date rather than ahead of it.
Commercial work follows its own rhythm. Canary Wharf's offices and shops go through regular floor refits. Fish Island's converted warehouses, part of a conservation area, and Whitechapel's shops and markets add smaller commercial and mixed use floors. From a Canary Wharf office floor to a market unit in Whitechapel, our commercial screeding handles wearing screeds, repairs and floor preparation.
Screeding prices for Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets is about 26.2 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including E2, E14, E3 and E9. The nearest towns to it are Hackney (2.5 miles), Newham (3.2 miles), Southwark (3.5 miles) and Islington (3.6 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Tower Hamlets include Bethnal Green, Blackwall, Bow, Bow Common and Bromley.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
