Pumping to upper floors from Nine Elms to Roehampton
Getting screed to a third floor flat by hand means dozens of bags, a mixer on the landing and a day of carrying. With liquid screed the material stays in the lorry and travels through a hose, up the stairwell or through a window, straight to the room. That is why it suits a borough where so many people live above the ground floor.
Before quoting, we check three things. First, where the lorry can stand, because the pour has to happen in one go. Second, the hose route and how the common parts will be protected. Third, the floor build-up, including any acoustic layer, insulation and heating, so the depth is right.
Along the Nine Elms riverside, new apartments are specified with liquid screed over underfloor heating from the start. In those blocks the screed is part of the design, so the depth, the product and the pour sequence are fixed on the drawings long before the screeders arrive. Older blocks being refurbished can use it too, provided the structure below is sound and the existing floor layers have been opened up and checked first.
Two binders are on offer for the pumped mix: calcium sulphate or cement. Both are pumped and self-levelling; the choice depends on the finish, the heating and whether the floor may get wet. Our screed pumping page explains the pumping itself in more detail.
Flat floors for Balham and Tooting extensions
The open-plan kitchen at the back of a house is the other place liquid screed does well. A wide floor, poured in one visit, reaches SR1 or SR2 flatness readily, which suits large-format tiles and LVT. Because it barely shrinks, it needs a fraction of the joints a traditional screed would. On a long side return that means a continuous floor from the front room to the garden doors, without the joint lines that can telegraph through a thin finish.
Depth matters. Floating on insulation in a home, the minimum is around 35mm; for commercial floors it is around 40mm. Heating pipes need 25mm of screed on top as a minimum, so a heated floor tends to be 45 to 50mm deep.
Being able to step across it within a couple of days is one thing; laying the new floor is another. Budget roughly one drying day per millimetre up to 40mm, and get a moisture reading before any flooring is fitted. Going by 2026 published figures, a liquid floor starts at £24 a square metre and tops out at £31.
Deciding between wet and traditional? Our guide weighing up wet and traditional screeds lays the options side by side. Over the boundary into Merton? Our Merton liquid screed page covers it.
Liquid Screed prices in Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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.
Liquid Screed from Slough to Wandsworth
On the map, Wandsworth sits east-south-east of Slough, about 20.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including SW12, SW11, SW4 and SW18), next to Merton (2.8 miles), Lambeth (2.9 miles), Hammersmith and Fulham (3.7 miles) and Kensington and Chelsea (3.8 miles).
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