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Liquid Screed in Witney

Liquid screed reaches Witney homes through a hose fed directly by our mixer, so an entire extension or ground floor goes down in one visit and is fine to walk on 24 to 48 hours afterwards. Some 33% of Witney's homes were built since 2000, including the new housing on the former Early's blanket site, and new floors and extensions like these are often open enough to suit a flowing screed.

Liquid screed for Madley Park and newer Witney homes

Pumped screed suits large, open, regular floors, and Witney has plenty of them. Madley Park is a good example: its semis from the late 20th century and its more recent houses are typical candidates for an extension, often heated underfloor, and a new kitchen or family room across the back gives liquid screed the broad floor it covers fastest. An open-plan layout with few internal walls lets the screed run from one side to the other without interruption.

Because it flows and self-levels, the screed spreads across the room in one visit and settles dense and flat. Expect a finish within SR1 or SR2, the flatness large tiles and LVT want underneath. It wraps heating pipes completely with no voids, and because it shrinks so little, the floor needs only a fraction of the joints a hand-laid one would. You can choose a calcium sulphate binder or a cement one, and the choice rests on the room and on whether water could ever reach the floor.

Its minimum depth when floated on insulation is about 35mm for a house and 40mm for a commercial floor. Put pipes in and they need 25mm of screed above them as a minimum, which brings the total to 45 to 50mm. Compared with a 65mm hand-laid floor, that saves height that can go into insulation or keep the extension level with the house. The screed thickness guide has the full figures, and underfloor heating screed in Witney covers the heated version in detail.

Pump access and drying on Witney jobs

Where the pump can stand decides how the day goes, because the hose has to reach the room from it. Semi-detached houses make up 35% of Witney's homes, and where one has a drive, the pump can usually sit on it. Terraces, flats and properties in the conservation area around the High Street may need the pump on the road, with the hose run through a hallway or up a stair. Tell us about parking and access at the pricing stage. We run our own pump with our own crew and do not hire machines out; the screed pumping page explains how it works.

The 2007 flooding on Bridge Street and Mill Street is a reason to think twice before choosing a calcium sulphate liquid screed for a low-lying ground floor near the Windrush. A cement based liquid screed may suit that floor better.

A floor you can walk on is not yet a dry floor. Each of the first 40 millimetres takes around a day, and anything deeper dries more slowly again. The comparison in liquid screed versus sand and cement explains how the two differ on timing. Liquid screed for Carterton homes is available on the same terms.

Liquid Screed prices in Witney

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 Witney

Floor screed with movement joints cut between bays
Floor screed with movement joints cut between bays.

K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.

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Liquid Screed from Slough to Witney

Witney is about 40.2 miles west-north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including OX28 and OX29. The nearest towns to it are Carterton (5.1 miles), Kidlington (8.8 miles), Oxford (10 miles) and Abingdon-on-Thames (11.9 miles).

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FAQs

Liquid Screed in Witney: your questions

How flat is liquid screed?

In most cases it settles to SR1 or SR2 flatness. Lay a 2m straightedge on an SR1 floor and no gap exceeds 3mm. For SR2 the limit is 5mm. That is flat enough for most tiles, LVT and engineered wood without a further levelling coat, which is one reason it suits open-plan extensions in Witney.

How long does a liquid screed pour take?

The pour itself is usually one visit, even for a whole ground floor, because the screed is pumped rather than barrowed and compacted. Preparation beforehand, such as laying membrane and edge strip and taping joints, can take longer than the pour. On a Madley Park extension, most of the time in the programme goes on drying, not laying.

Is liquid screed more expensive than sand and cement?

Per m², usually a little. The published 2026 UK ranges are £24 to £31 per m² for liquid and £18 to £25 for sand and cement. On a large, open Witney floor the gap narrows, because liquid is laid faster and thinner and saves time on the programme. On a small room the hand-laid mix is often cheaper.

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