Getting the hose up a Westminster stair or lift
Everything begins out in the street. The ready mixed screed is pumped from the lorry through a hose that runs up the stairwell, along a landing or through a window, straight to the room being floored. Nothing is carried and nothing is mixed inside the flat.
That is a large advantage in central London buildings. A bag of sand and cement carried up six flights is slow and hard on the common parts, and a small lift is not built for tonnes of material. The hose route avoids both, and the pour itself is finished in hours rather than spread across several days of deliveries, which keeps disruption in the common parts short.
The planning is in the access. The lorry needs a legal place to stand for the length of the pour, which on a controlled street can mean booking a bay in advance. We agree with the managing agent which way the hose will run, then cover that route before it goes in. The floor itself is checked for its build-up, including any acoustic layer, insulation or heating, so the depth is right for the product.
It comes as calcium sulphate or as a cement based mix, and both kinds go in by pump and find their own level. The choice depends on the flooring, whether there is heating, and whether the room may get wet. Our screed pumping service explains the equipment and what it needs on the day.
Depth and flatness in Westminster apartments
In a flat, floor height is precious. Floated over insulation, a home needs roughly 35mm as a minimum, and a commercial floor roughly 40mm. Add underfloor heating and the pipes want at least 25mm over them, making the full depth 45 to 50mm or thereabouts. That thinner build-up is often why liquid screed is chosen in apartments, where a door threshold or a lift landing fixes the finished level.
Liquid screed also gives a flatter surface over a large area than hand-laid screed. Laid across a big room it reaches SR1 or SR2 against a 2m straightedge without much effort, good news for large tiles and wide boards. Low shrinkage means fewer joints, so an open-plan living room and kitchen can often be poured as one bay without lines that show through a thin finish.
Flooring has to wait while it dries, which over the first 40mm means roughly as many days as millimetres. Published 2026 pricing for liquid screed is £24 at the bottom and £31 at the top, per square metre.
Weighing it against the traditional option? Our wet versus traditional screed guide compares them. For a flat in a neighbouring borough, see liquid screed in Kensington and Chelsea.
Liquid Screed prices in Westminster
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 Westminster
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Westminster
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 21 miles from Westminster, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include W2, SW1W, SW1X and SW7, and Kensington and Chelsea (1.6 miles), Camden (2.1 miles), Hammersmith and Fulham (2.8 miles) and Islington (3 miles) are close by.
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