From St Cross to Harestock: choosing a Winchester screed
Census 2021 put the population of the Winchester built-up area at 48,486, and the housing spans almost every era. The largest share, 30%, went up between 1945 and 1972, yet a place that started life as the Roman town of Venta Belgarum still has whole districts of period houses.
Hyde, Fulflood and St Cross are where those period houses sit. A ground floor there may have to come out completely and be rebuilt over new insulation and a damp proof membrane, and where the rooms are small and the doorways original, finishing with sand and cement laid by hand is normally the sensible route. For a listed house or one in a conservation setting, settle the finished levels and thresholds before anything is broken out.
Beyond them is a ring of suburbs, Stanmore, Weeke, Harestock, Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery among them, and the post-war semis and terraces there lend themselves to extensions. Put pipes in the new floor and it will normally get a flowing screed over the heating, poured in a day and flat enough to tile.
On newer flats and housing plots, the drawings often already name a calcium sulphate grade. What that grade actually means is set out on our Winchester anhydrite screed page.
Not every Winchester floor needs replacing, though. If yours is solid but bumpy, a skim of levelling compound under the new flooring normally fixes it faster and for less than a new screed. Postcodes here include SO22, SO23 and SO21.
Homes in Winchester at a glance
The most common home in Winchester is a terraced house (26%), ahead of flats at 26%. By age, 30% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 24% built between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Winchester | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 22% |
| Semi-detached houses | 25% |
| Terraced houses | 26% |
| Flats | 26% |
| Built before 1919 | 19% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 8% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 30% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 24% |
| Built since 2000 | 18% |
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 Winchester built-up area (E63006064).
Screeding services in Winchester
- Liquid ScreedIn Winchester flats, a liquid screed hose runs up the stairs from the mixer outside.
- Sand and Cement ScreedRelaying a dug-out floor in a Hyde, Fulflood or St Cross period house? We hand-lay sand and cement screed in Winchester.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedUnderfloor heating screed for heated extensions on post-war semis in Winchester's suburbs, with correct pipe cover and heat-up advice.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedWinchester apartment drawings naming CA-C25-F5 anhydrite or alpha hemihydrate screed? We pour the stated grade with sanding advice.
- Floor LevellingFloor levelling for unit refits at Sun Valley and Scylla Business Park in Winnall, Winchester, ready for vinyl, LVT and tiles.
- Latex ScreedWhere a listed Winchester floor cannot rise, latex screed adds only a few mm over plywood, tiles or concrete for vinyl and LVT.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for Winchester unit slabs at Winnall, back to sound concrete with dust extraction before compound or flooring.
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 Winchester.
Access in central Winchester and timing the pour
Alfred the Great's street grid still shapes the city centre, and finding somewhere for a mixer and pump outside a house in those older streets takes planning. In your enquiry, mention residents' parking, any loading restrictions and shared passageways; we then work out where the kit will stand and how long the hose run will be. Further out, a driveway usually settles it, and the whole city is covered, Fairdown, Northfields and Abbotts Barton included.
The calendar needs the same attention. We pour once the building is sealed against the weather and the plasterers have finished their wet work, and once any heating pipes have passed their pressure test. The floor then has to dry before the flooring layer comes in, and how long that takes depends on its depth and what it is made of. In a listed building there is one more thing to settle first, because the agreed levels can change door heights and joinery.
Business premises sit in a category of their own. Winnall, near junction 9 of the M3, is the city's main industrial area, and its business parks contain units from the 1980s and 1990s, the kind of buildings where floor repairs and resurfacing tend to come up. Those jobs go through our commercial floor screeding service.
Screeding prices for Winchester 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 Winchester
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Reaching Winchester
Winchester is about 43.5 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO23 and SO22. The nearest towns to it are Eastleigh (6.6 miles), Romsey (9.6 miles), Hedge End (10.2 miles) and Southampton (11.6 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Winchester include Abbotts Barton, Badger Farm, Bar End, Fairdown and Fulflood.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
