Relaying solid floors in Wellingborough's older terraces
An old solid floor that has lost its damp protection shows it in the usual ways: lifting tiles, a cold and dusty surface, or a musty smell under the carpet. Patching rarely lasts. What lasts is starting again. We break the old floor out, put down hardcore and blinding where needed, then insulation, a damp proof membrane, and finally the new screed.
Sand and cement is the natural material for this. Because we mix it on site for each room, it works around the alcoves, chimney breasts and narrow doorways of an old terrace, and we can do one room at a time while you carry on living in the others. Where it floats on insulation in a house, we lay it about 65mm deep. Keep a sound concrete slab and simply top it, and a bonded layer 25 to 40mm thick may do instead. The screed thickness guide sets out how those depths are decided.
Before any screed goes down, the base has to be right. Old adhesive, loose concrete and contamination all need removing, which our floor preparation service covers.
It is also a slower screed to dry than a pumped one. Give it about a day for every millimetre up to a depth of 40mm, with anything deeper drying more slowly, so a 65mm floor usually needs several weeks before it will pass a moisture test. Where the build cannot wait, we can add a rapid drying admixture to cut that time down.
Garages and wet rooms across Wellingborough
Garage conversions are a regular project on the Hemmingwell, Kingsway and Queensway estates. Inside, the old garage slab is normally a good step down from the rest of the house, so we raise it with layers of insulation, membrane and screed until it meets the hall or kitchen level. Sand and cement suits these small rectangular rooms, and it gives a cement base that carries early load. Each layer is set out in the garage floor screed guide.
The other room where we would reach for sand and cement is a wet room. We can slope it towards a floor drain, and unlike calcium sulphate it is happy in wet areas. The falls are shaped by hand so water finds the outlet, leaving a base the tiler can tank and then tile.
Where speed matters more than cost, the mix can be changed. Quick drying sand and cement shortens the wait before flooring, and fibres can be added for extra resistance to cracking at a small extra cost per m². For a large open extension rather than a small room, compare this page with pumped liquid screed in Wellingborough, which is thinner and faster to lay.
Sand and Cement Screed prices in Wellingborough
Sand and cement screed: £18 to £25 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £450 to £630 for 25 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your sand and cement screed in Wellingborough
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Sand and Cement 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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