Matching the right screed to Woodley's homes
Woodley was a scattered village until the twentieth century, and its floors reflect how quickly it grew after that. Semi-detached houses make up 44% of the housing, and the usual project on a post-war semi is a single-storey rear extension or a kitchen-diner knock-through. A new extension slab rarely finishes at exactly the height of the old floor, so the join is where the real work sits.
For a wide new kitchen, especially one with heating pipes, a pumped liquid screed gives a flat floor in one visit. Where only a small room or a damaged patch of the original floor is being replaced, a hand-laid sand and cement screed is mixed on site and is often the simpler option.
The houses on the former Woodley Aerodrome land are younger. Adwest Properties built them in the 1980s, after gravel extraction in the 1960s and 1970s, and they are now reaching the age for the same kind of upgrades, including new heating. A retrofit there usually means lifting the old finish and laying a screed over underfloor heating pipes without lifting the floor too far at the doorways.
The newest estate stands on the former Bulmershe college site, built in 2013 and 2014 with houses, flats and a care home. Where a recent floor is sound, the need is more often a smooth base for new LVT or tiles, which calls for floor levelling with compound rather than a fresh screed. Merryhill Green, like neighbouring Earley, shares much of Woodley's post-war character, so the same choices carry across.
Homes in Woodley at a glance
Semi-detached houses make up 44% of the 11,094 households in Woodley, followed by detached houses at 27%. By age, 51% of properties date from 1945 and 1972, the biggest single group, with 25% built between 1973 and 1999.
| Homes in Woodley | Share |
|---|---|
| Detached houses | 27% |
| Semi-detached houses | 44% |
| Terraced houses | 16% |
| Flats | 12% |
| Built before 1919 | 1% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 6% |
| Built 1945 to 1972 | 51% |
| Built 1973 to 1999 | 25% |
| Built since 2000 | 16% |
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 Woodley built-up area (E63005047).
Screeding services in Woodley
- Liquid ScreedKnocking a Woodley semi through into one kitchen-diner? Pumped liquid screed lays it in a single visit, walkable in 24 to 48 hours.
- Sand and Cement ScreedWorn original floors in Woodley's post-war semis often need digging out and re-laying. Hand-laid sand and cement screed, 65mm floating.
- Underfloor Heating ScreedWoodley's 1980s aerodrome-land houses are now at the age for heating retrofits. We screed over wet underfloor heating pipes.
- Anhydrite & Flow ScreedHouses and flats on Woodley's Bulmershe estate show the new-build plots anhydrite suits. CA grade, laitance and moisture advice in writing.
- Floor LevellingWhere a new extension meets an old Woodley floor, levelling compound brings it flush for LVT, tiles or wood. Headley Park units too.
- Latex ScreedWoodley kitchen and bathroom refits over old tiles or plywood-boarded floors need a smooth base: latex screed, a few mm thick, for vinyl.
- Concrete Floor GrindingConcrete floor grinding for unit refits at Woodley's Headley Park 9 and 10: old coatings, glue and high spots removed with extraction.
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 Woodley.
Timing a pour on a Woodley extension or unit
On a Woodley extension, we pour after the roof is on and the windows are in, but before the kitchen units, internal doors and skirting arrive. Any heating pipes should already be clipped down and pressure tested by your heating installer, since we do not fit pipes ourselves. Wet plastering adds moisture to a room that already has to dry, so plan it with that in mind.
Give the drying period its own slot ahead of the flooring date. Count on roughly one day for each millimetre of thickness up to 40mm, then longer per millimetre beyond that, and have the flooring fitter test the screed before laying anything.
Getting material to the back of a semi is the next question. Where there is a driveway, the pump or mixer can usually park on it. If the only route to the back is through the house or along a shared side path, tell us when you ask for a price, because it affects whether the screed is pumped by hose or barrowed in. In a flat, let us know what level it is on and whether a lift serves it.
Business units run to a different programme. Headley Park 9, Headley Park 10 and the Hurricane Urban Hub on Headley Road East offer warehouse and office units, and a change of tenant can leave a floor that needs repair, preparation or a new screed before fit-out. We take that on as commercial screeding work.
Screeding prices for Woodley 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 Woodley
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Reaching Woodley
Woodley is about 12.5 miles west-south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including RG5 and RG41. The nearest towns to it are Reading (2.9 miles), Wokingham (4.4 miles), Henley-on-Thames (5.8 miles) and Bracknell (7.1 miles). Neighbourhoods we cover in Woodley include Merryhill Green.
See our screeding services for every screed type we lay.
