Swapping old floors for heated ones in Verwood
Replacing an old floor with an insulated, heated one is a common renovation in Verwood's detached houses. The old screed or chipboard is lifted, the base dug down where needed, and a new build-up of membrane, insulation, pipes and screed goes in.
Floor height is the constraint. Doors, stairs and the rooms you are not changing all fix the finished level. This is where a pumped mix earns its place: 25mm or more over the pipes, 45 to 50mm overall, compared with roughly 45mm over the pipes alone if you use sand and cement. That difference can decide whether the old base has to be dug deeper.
How well the pipes are wrapped matters just as much. Poured screed closes in round each run with nothing hollow left, and the heat comes through the surface evenly. Has your heating designer written a calcium sulphate grade on the plans? Our Verwood anhydrite page decodes it.
Before the pour we check the insulation is flat, the membrane lapped, the edge strip round every wall and the pipes pressure tested. Anything missing from that list, whether boards, sheeting or perimeter strip, we can bring with us. Our floor preparation service covers the base work below.
Pumped screed over heating pipes is quoted nationally at £20 to £35 a square metre for 2026. Where your Verwood job lands in that range turns on floor size, thickness and how many of the layers we provide.
Pipe cover and first heat-up in Verwood extensions
Of Verwood's homes, 18% have been built since 2000, so in this town a heated floor is more likely to arrive with an extension or renovation on an older house. An extension brings its own floor, and underfloor heating makes sense there because the new room is open and well insulated.
Where the extension joins the original Verwood house, the two floors have to finish flush. We start from the finished height of the house and work down through the flooring, screed, insulation and membrane.
Switching on too eagerly is how a lot of heated floors get spoiled. Calcium sulphate can normally be warmed once 7 days have passed. Sand and cement in a Verwood extension sits unheated for 21 days, longer if the readings say so. In both cases the temperature should go up in small steps over several days, not straight to full. We give written guidance so the heating engineer can commission the system gradually, and so the homeowner knows not to turn the thermostat up in the meantime.
For the depths behind each build-up, see our screed thickness guide. Homes in Ferndown can book heated floor screed from us as well.
Underfloor Heating Screed prices in Verwood
Liquid screed over underfloor heating: £20 to £35 per m² supplied and laid (trade2base, June 2026), so £700 to £1,230 for 35 m². trade2base gives these figures excluding VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your underfloor heating screed in Verwood
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.
Underfloor Heating Screed from Slough to Verwood
Verwood is about 69.9 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including BH31 and BH21. The nearest towns to it are Ringwood (4.6 miles), Ferndown (5.6 miles), Wimborne Minster (7.4 miles) and Christchurch (10.8 miles).
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