Pumping screed along Yate's Radburn footpaths
On a Radburn estate, the front of the house faces a green or a footpath, and vehicle access is often limited. That makes a traditional screed hard work: every barrow of sand and cement has to be wheeled from the mixer to the room. With liquid screed, the mixer truck and pump stay at the road and the material travels through a hose. The only thing crossing the footpath is the hose itself, laid flat and protected, so neighbours can still walk past while the pour goes on.
The hose length depends on the route, so tell us the rough distance and whether it passes gates, steps or a narrow alley. We plan the run before the day and bring enough hose for it. Where the distance is unusual, our screed pumping service covers the equipment side.
Once the screed reaches the room, it is poured to a set depth and spread with a dappling bar to release air. Laid floating over insulation in a home, it needs only about 35mm, and it will reach SR1 or SR2 flatness without trouble. That suits open-plan kitchens and extensions, where one flat floor runs from the old house into the new room, ready for tiles, LVT or engineered wood once it has dried.
If you are torn between the two on a Radburn terrace, liquid against sand and cement, side by side sets out the trade-offs.
North Yate plots and larger floors
Homes built since 2015 make up 19% of Yate's stock, and recent growth has been rapid. These are standard new build: insulation, underfloor heating and liquid screed laid plot by plot. For a site manager, the point of a pumped screed is programme. On a North Yate plot, the ground floor goes in during a single visit, takes foot traffic after 24 to 48 hours and is then ready for the following trade.
Both main types of liquid screed are available. Calcium sulphate products are the usual choice on new build plots. For a floor that could get wet, the cement based flowing kind is used. Where heating pipes are in the floor, we pour at least 25mm over them, so a heated floor is usually 45 to 50mm deep in total. The underfloor heating screed for Yate page covers pipe cover and first heat-up in detail.
Thicker floors take longer: reckon on one day per mm up to 40mm, with the rate slowing after that. Coverings only go on once a hygrometer reading says the screed is ready.
Pumped liquid screed is listed at between £24 and £31 a square metre in the published UK rates for 2026. For a project in Chippenham, see liquid screed in Chippenham.
Liquid Screed prices in Yate
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 Yate
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Yate
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 76.5 miles from Yate, which lies to the west. Postcodes here include BS37 and BS36, and Bath (11.2 miles), Corsham (12.5 miles), Chippenham (14.3 miles) and Stroud (16.6 miles) are close by.
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