Where pumped screed fits Wellingborough's newer housing
The bigger and more open the room, the more sense a pump makes. On the new Stanton Cross and Glenvale Park houses, the heating pipes are clipped down over insulation first, ready for the flowing screed these homes are usually given.
Older houses benefit too. On the overspill estates, a rear extension that turns a kitchen and dining room into one space gives a long, uninterrupted floor. Pumped in, the screed spreads down that whole length and finishes to SR1 or SR2, a gap of 3mm or 5mm at most beneath a 2m straightedge. It also barely shrinks, so a pumped floor gets by with far fewer joints than one laid by hand.
Depth is lower as well. Floating in a house it can go down at about 35mm, where sand and cement would need about 65mm, so a Kingsway or Hemmingwell extension floor can meet the old threshold with no step. Laid over heating pipes it must cover them by 25mm or more, which usually means 45 to 50mm overall.
There are two sorts, one based on calcium sulphate and one on cement, and our pump handles either. We pick between them by looking at the room, the floor finish and your build programme. If your drawings name a CA grade, the calcium sulphate grades explained page covers what that specification means, and our comparison with sand and cement sets the two methods side by side.
Getting the hose into a Wellingborough home
Lorry, mixer and pump all stay outside, and the screed reaches the room along a hose. Where a Wellingborough house is detached with its own drive, setting up takes little planning. Terraced streets need more thought, since 29% of the town's homes are terraced and the lorry may have to stand on the road. If there are parking restrictions, a tight side gate or a shared passage, mention it with your enquiry and the hose route gets worked out before pour day.
A hose travels a long way. It can run through a hallway, across a finished room with protection laid down, or up a stairwell to an upper floor, which makes liquid screed a practical option for flats where carrying sand and cement up the stairs would be slow. There is more on how the pump and lines are rigged on our screed pumping page.
Preparation comes before any pumping. Every wall needs its edge strip, the membrane over the insulation needs each joint taped, and each doorway needs a dam to hold the screed in. Our team goes round all of it when they arrive.
For the first day or two afterwards, shut the doors and windows so the top does not dry too quickly; after that, open up and let air through. Walkable is not the same as dry: the screed drying times guide explains when flooring can follow.
Liquid Screed prices in Wellingborough
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 Wellingborough
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to 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.
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