Making sure your floor is completely ready for a final application of tiles, wood or any other finishing requires you to sand, vacuum and prime your floor so it’s 100% ready for installation of your chosen floor finish.

To lay your desired floor material down so that your new floor is complete after you have installed your cement screed floor, you’ll have to do a few things so that you don’t encounter any problems in the future.

Understandably, planning a large renovation that includes a whole new floor installation can be worrying when you’re trying to keep costs to a minimum.

As you’ll likely need to remove all furniture from most parts of your home before you start your project, additional costs for removal and storage can also add up, as well as the price of temporarily staying in accommodation while your new floor is being finished.

Are you wondering how much it costs to use cement liquid screed in your next home renovation project?

There are a few obvious variants that can affect the total cost of using screed, such as the total area you need to cover or the type of floor screed mixture you plan to use, but there are also a few additional cost considerations you might not have thought of.

When you are constructing a building, one of the most important jobs is to ensure that the flooring is as flat and level as possible and the way to do that is to lay a screed on top of the concrete base before fitting the final floor surface.

Until recently, underfloor heating has been perceived as a luxury specification and therefore only suitable for high-end homes, and as a result it has been the case that in lower cost housing, specifiers have opted for a traditional radiator system for heating. However, that is beginning to change as it has been realised that combining an underfloor heating system with a liquid screed can be economic for any type of property, including at the affordable housing end of the ladder.

There is nothing new about underfloor heating as there is evidence of it going back to Roman times and before. In those days, they had trenches cut in the floors of homes which were covered with stones and heated from a strategically placed fire. So there is nothing new in principle, although the heating processes have changed somewhat.

Today, more and more new build homes and other buildings are being constructed with underfloor heating because of the many advantages over using a radiator system. Not the least of the considerations is that underfloor heating uses less energy than a radiator system, and the room is heated evenly.

When you are in the construction industry, one of the things that are necessary for any building is to ensure that the floor is flat and level. That may sound obvious, because we don’t want to walk on bumpy floors and when placing, say, a table on the floor we want all four legs to be in contact with it so that the table stays level.

When constructing any new building, one of the most important considerations – among many others – is to ensure that the final flooring is laid on to a surface that is as smooth and flat as possible. This is always important, but especially so when the final flooring is going to be tiling or stone because if the subfloor is not level, then the tiles or stone will not last for very long before they begin to crack.