From Warwick Gates to the centre: choosing a screed
Warwick grew in stages, and the stage a house belongs to says a lot about its floor.
Warwick Gates arrived in the late 1990s and Chase Meadow in the early 2010s, with Myton Green among the newest. The newer estates, Chase Meadow and Myton Green in particular, lend themselves to pumped liquid screed in Warwick when owners extend, often with pipes beneath it. How much screed goes over the pipes, and how the heating is brought up afterwards, is set out on the Warwick underfloor heating screed page. A developer specification that names a calcium sulphate grade belongs on our anhydrite flow screed page.
Emscote, Woodloes Park, The Cape and Packmores are older suburbs. Renovating an older house is more likely to involve an existing solid floor that needs digging out, plus small rooms and bathrooms, all of which suit a hand-laid sand and cement screed for Warwick renovations.
The Georgian and older townhouses in the centre need more care. Their structure is historic and finished floor heights often cannot change, so a bonded screed or a thin levelling layer is usually the answer instead of a deep new floor. Floor levelling in Warwick explains that route.
Census 2021 counted 36,673 people in the Warwick built-up area, which runs on into Leamington Spa and Whitnash as one continuous town. We cover all of it, including Bridge End, Cliff Hill, Emscote, Packmores and The Cape.
Homes in Warwick at a glance
Detached houses make up 27% of the 15,716 households in Warwick, followed by semi-detached houses at 27%. By age, 28% of properties date from 1973 and 1999, the biggest single group, with 23% built since 2015.
| Homes in Warwick | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 27% |
| Semi-detached houses | 27% |
| Terraced houses | 26% |
| Flats | 20% |
| Built before 1919 | 8% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 6% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 18% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 28% |
| Built since 2000 | 40% |
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 Warwick built-up area (E63003308).
Screeding services in Warwick
- Liquid ScreedExtending at Chase Meadow or Myton Green? Pumped liquid screed gives a flat Warwick floor you can walk on in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedRenovating an older house in Emscote, The Cape or Packmores? Hand-laid sand and cement screed in Warwick at 65mm, or bonded.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedHeated extensions on newer Warwick estates, retrofits in older townhouses: screed laid over your underfloor heating pipes at the right depth.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedNew Warwick flats and plots specifying anhydrite flow screed: we pour CA-C20-F4 to CA-C30-F6 and sand off the laitance.
- Floor LevellingOffice refits at Warwick Technology Park, units at Tachbrook Park, old townhouse floors: levelling compound laid in Warwick to SR1 or SR2.
- Latex ScreedBathroom and kitchen refits in Warwick terraces and Georgian townhouses: latex screed over plywood or old tiles for vinyl and LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingLips between bays, old adhesive and paint removed by concrete floor grinding at Tachbrook Park, Heathcote and Wedgnock in Warwick.
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 Warwick.
Access and timing on Warwick building projects
In a Warwick extension, the screed date follows the rest of the build. It goes in after the walls are plastered, the windows are in and any heating pipes are pressure tested, and before the joiner fits skirting and doors. Booked too early, the floor is left exposed to other trades; booked too late, the flooring fitter waits.
Then there is drying. Light foot traffic is usually fine within 24 to 48 hours on liquid screed, but a floor laid at 50mm needs weeks before most finishes, at about a day per millimetre for the first 40mm. Sand and cement is slower still. Plan the flooring date from the pour date, not the other way round.
Access is the other question. On newer estates the mixer can often sit on the drive. In older streets and the town centre, parking is tighter and the hose may need to run through the house, which we plan before the day. Many flats have been built in Warwick in the last decade, and for those the hose goes up the stairwell.
Business sites are a separate case. Tachbrook Park, Heathcote, Wedgnock Industrial Estate and Warwick Technology Park hold offices, workshops and warehouses, and work there falls under our commercial screeding service.
Screeding prices for Warwick 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 Warwick
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 Warwick
On the map, Warwick sits north-west of Slough, about 65.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CV34), next to Royal Leamington Spa (2.3 miles), Kenilworth (4.1 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon (8 miles) and Coventry (9.3 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Warwick include Bridge End, Cliff Hill, Emscote, Heathcote and Packmores.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.