Liquid screed on Witham's overspill estate extensions
A rear extension on a terrace is a good match for liquid screed. The new room is usually opened into the old kitchen, creating a long floor that must be flat from end to end and flush with the existing house at the join. A pumped screed flows out and levels itself across the whole area, and SR1 or SR2 surface regularity is readily achieved.
Its depth helps too. Floated over insulation in a home, pumped screed can be as thin as about 35mm, where hand-laid needs roughly 65mm. That leaves extra depth for insulation and still lets the extension meet the terrace's original floor. Shrinkage is low, so even a long room needs few joints.
Flats are the other strong fit in Witham. Purpose-built blocks account for 17% of the town's homes, and a hose can reach an upper floor with far less effort than barrowing sand and cement up the stairs. The same goes for new houses: 10% of Witham's homes were built since 2015, and new ground floors are commonly designed to take a flowing screed over insulation.
Pumped screed comes as either a calcium sulphate or a cement based mix. Picking between them depends on what the rooms are for, what goes on top, and whether a utility or shower might see water. Grades and the anhydrite material itself are covered under Witham anhydrite flow screed. Not sure yet whether to pump or hand-lay? Read pumped versus traditional screed before deciding.
Getting the hose into Witham terraces and flats
Our pump sits out on the road or your driveway, and only the hose comes inside. For a mid-terrace house with an extension at the back, that usually means running it through the front door and along the hall, or down a shared rear path if there is one. Floors, walls and door frames along the route are protected before we start.
Flats are reached by taking the hose up the stairs or in at a window, on a route the block's managing agent has approved. On an apartment floor, the acoustic layer must already be in place, since the screed floats on top of it.
The room itself must be ready too: perimeter strip fixed to each wall, the membrane on the insulation sealed with tape, and doorways blocked off. We walk round and confirm it all as soon as we turn up. For the machinery side, our screed pumping service explains what arrives on the day; we do not hire pumps out separately.
It will take your weight once 24 to 48 hours have gone by, yet the screed below the surface is still holding water. Reckon on one day for each millimetre up to 40mm, then slower, and get it tested before your flooring is fitted.
Liquid Screed prices in Witham
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 Witham
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Witham
On the map, Witham sits east-north-east of Slough, about 58.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM8), next to Maldon (5 miles), Braintree (6.6 miles), Chelmsford (8.4 miles) and Halstead (10 miles).
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