Which screed fits which kind of Wickford home
Most of Wickford's homes are suburban family houses. Semi-detached houses make up 43% of the stock and detached houses 29%, and a large share of both date from the 1960s to the 1990s. That makes the floor work fairly predictable.
A typical project is a single or double storey extension, a garage conversion or a kitchen knocked through into one open room. Each one needs a new floor laid over insulation and finished exactly level with the rest of the house. Where the extension opens into one big kitchen and family room, pumped liquid screed in Wickford levels itself across the whole space, and you can walk on it within 24 to 48 hours. In a narrow garage or a small utility with a floor drain, a hand-laid sand and cement screed is often the simpler answer.
More owners are adding wet heating to those new rooms while the floor is open. Planning pipes? Fix the floor depth only after looking at heated floors in Wickford, since the screed cover above the pipes sets the finished height.
Flats on Runwell Road are another matter. The 122 apartments proposed there will need acoustic floor build-ups. If the architect calls for a calcium sulphate grade on those plots, our anhydrite screed notes for Wickford cover what the grade means on site.
Not every floor needs replacing. If the existing slab is sound but out of level, floor levelling with compound can make it ready for LVT or tiles far more quickly than a new screed.
Homes in Wickford at a glance
Of the 11,415 households in Wickford, 43% live in semi-detached houses and 29% in detached houses. The largest share of its housing, 41%, was built between 1973 and 1999, and 37% between 1945 and 1972.
| Homes in Wickford | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 29% |
| Semi-detached houses | 43% |
| Terraced houses | 16% |
| Flats | 13% |
| Built before 1919 | 1% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 6% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 37% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 41% |
| Built since 2000 | 13% |
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 Wickford built-up area (E63004734).
Screeding services in Wickford
- Liquid ScreedKnocked-through kitchens in Wickford's 1970s to 1990s houses suit pumped liquid screed: flat, thin and walkable in a day or two.
- Sand and Cement ScreedRaising a Wickford garage floor or forming falls in a wet room? We hand-lay sand and cement screed at 65mm over insulation.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedAdding wet underfloor heating to a Wickford extension or garage room? We lay the screed over it with full pipe cover and a heat-up plan.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedPlans like the 122 flats on Runwell Road make anhydrite flow screed a live choice in Wickford.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for unit refits at Hurricane Way and LVT in Wickford homes, with compound to SR1 or SR2.
- Latex ScreedWickford's post-war kitchens and bathrooms can sit on overboarded floors or old tiles. Thin latex screed gives vinyl a smooth face.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for old coatings on a Sopwith Crescent unit or glue in a Wickford kitchen, back to bare slab, dust extracted.
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 Wickford.
Access, timing and Wickford Business Park units
If we are pumping, the lorry has to park near enough to the house that our hose will stretch from it to the room being screeded. When you ask for a price, mention any parking limits, a shared drive or a narrow side passage, so the day is planned around them rather than discovered on arrival.
Then think about where the pour sits in your build. On a Wickford extension it comes once the roof is on, the windows are in and the plaster is up, but ahead of the kitchen fitter and the flooring. Underfloor heating loops, if you are having them, should already be fixed and pressure tested by your engineer on the day we turn up. Book the pour early and let the drying time set the dates for the trades that follow, rather than squeezing it at the end.
Units on the industrial side of town are handled differently. Wickford Business Park lies east of the centre and is reached from the A132 Nevendon Road and the A130. It takes in the Hurricane Way estate, Sopwith Crescent and Heron Industrial Estate, where warehouse and light industrial units, some with mezzanines, need floor repair, levelling and hard-wearing screeds. Our commercial screeding service covers that work, whether it is one unit or a run of them.
Screeding prices for Wickford 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 Wickford
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Wickford
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 50.5 miles from Wickford, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include SS12 and SS11, and Rayleigh (4.1 miles), Basildon (4.2 miles), Billericay (4.5 miles) and South Woodham Ferrers (4.9 miles) are close by. Neighbourhoods we cover in Wickford include Shotgate.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.