Matching the screed to Wellingborough's estates and streets
Wellingborough grew in stages, and each stage left a different kind of floor behind.
The London overspill agreements of the 1960s and 1970s produced the large Hemmingwell, Kingsway and Queensway estates. Owners there regularly add extensions, convert garages or replace worn floors. A wide kitchen extension that opens onto the old house is quickest with pumped liquid screed, because it settles flat across the whole room in one visit and has far fewer joints.
Older terraces nearer the centre raise a different problem. Their solid floors may be damp or broken up, and the answer is usually to dig out, lay a damp proof membrane and rebuild. For that we use sand and cement, compacted by hand: it gets round the tight doorways and small rooms of a terrace and gives the floor the cement base it needs.
Stanton Cross, planned for 3,200 homes with schools and shops, and Glenvale Park are where the newest houses are going up. Most of the houses going up there have underfloor heating pipes with a flowing screed poured over them. Should the drawings for one of those houses call up a calcium sulphate grade, what the anhydrite codes mean is set out on its own page, and screeding over wet heating pipes deals with pipe cover and when the heating can first be switched on.
Flats add one more requirement: acoustic screeds between floors. And where a floor is sound but uneven, a full new screed may be more than you need, because a thin levelling compound can take it flat for LVT or tiles. We also cover Burrow's Bush, Hatton Park and Redhill Grange.
Homes in Wellingborough at a glance
Of the 22,101 households in Wellingborough, 32% live in semi-detached houses and 29% in terraced houses. The largest group of homes here was built between 1973 and 1999 (31%), and a further 23% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Wellingborough | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 23% |
| Semi-detached houses | 32% |
| Terraced houses | 29% |
| Flats | 15% |
| Built before 1919 | 14% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 10% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 23% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 31% |
| Built since 2000 | 22% |
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 Wellingborough built-up area (E63003230).
Screeding services in Wellingborough
- Liquid ScreedNew homes at Stanton Cross and Glenvale Park use flowing screed. Pumped liquid screed in Wellingborough, walkable in 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedOlder Wellingborough terraces near the centre often need solid floors dug out and relaid on a membrane.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating at Stanton Cross, Glenvale Park or an old Wellingborough terrace: screed over your pipes at the right cover.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedCA-C25-F5 or CA-C30-F6? Anhydrite flow screed for Wellingborough plots at Stanton Cross and Glenvale Park, poured to spec.
- Floor LevellingWorn floors on Hemmingwell and Kingsway or an office refit at Park Farm: self levelling compound in Wellingborough before LVT or tiles.
- Latex ScreedKitchen and bathroom refits in Wellingborough's older terraces: latex screed over plywood or old quarry tiles for vinyl and LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingWellingborough units on Finedon Road, Denington and Leyland Trading Estate: concrete floor grinding takes off paint, glue and ridges.
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 Wellingborough.
Park Farm, Finedon Road and timing a Wellingborough pour
The town has four main industrial estates: Park Farm, where Cummins is based, Denington, Finedon Road, and the Leyland Trading Estate on the site of the British Leyland foundry that closed in 1981. Factory and warehouse floors like these usually call for high strength screed, repairs or grinding rather than a domestic mix. Resin coatings, polished concrete and structural power floated slabs are outside what K & B does.
Back in the town's streets, where the screed lorry can stop shapes the whole day. A detached Wellingborough house with its own drive has room for the mixer off the road. The terraces nearer the centre are another matter, because the lorry may end up kerbside, so tell us about yellow lines, permit bays or a shared alley at pricing stage.
On any build, the screed sits between trades. Before our team turns up, the room needs to keep the weather out, the plasterer's wet work has to be finished, and if there are heating pipes they must already have held a pressure test. Kitchens, doors and skirting go in afterwards. Drying then sets the pace. People can walk on it carefully once 24 to 48 hours have passed, yet the floor will not take its covering for weeks: allow roughly a day per millimetre over the first 40mm of depth, with drying slowing down below that. So give the flooring fitter a date once the screed is in, rather than squeezing the screed in before them, and have a moisture reading taken before anything goes down.
Screeding prices for Wellingborough 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 Wellingborough
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Wellingborough
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 53.3 miles from Wellingborough, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include NN8, and Rushden (4.1 miles), Burton Latimer (4.2 miles), Kettering (6.9 miles) and Raunds (7.3 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Wellingborough include Burrow's Bush and Hatton Park.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
