One of the most important parts of the home is the floor, so it is important to get it right. One of the most useful materials that you can use before installing the final flooring is a screed, and these come in a variety of different forms. Traditional sand and cement screed is laid by hand in a lengthy process, and it is difficult to get it as flat and level as one would like. It is also not as good as other screeds when it comes to covering underfloor heating. Because of the material and the way in which it is laid, there can be gaps around and under the heating pipes which means that the heat transfer is not 100% effective.

The anhydrite or calcium sulphate floor screeds that we install at UK Screeds have very many advantages over sand and cement screeds. They are much quicker to lay, as we pour them in by a pump, and this means that a far greater area can be laid in a day than the manual laying of sand and cement. It is estimated that a liquid screed is around 20 times faster to lay.

If you are undertaking a project and want to install underfloor heating, there are two types of heating system that we can use at UK Screeds. One is an electric system and the other is water-based. Both systems heat the floor of the room and the people and objects within it, as opposed to a radiator system which simply heats the air and actually leads to a lot of waste energy.

UK Screeds is the foremost provider of anhydrite screeds throughout England and Wales. Liquid anhydrite screed has so many advantages over traditional sand and cement screed, not the least of which is that it is so fast to lay. Our teams can lay up to 2,000 square feet in a day, and this is estimated to be up to 20 times faster than you could lay a sand and cement screed which has to be trowelled on by hand.

UK Screeds are the leading flooring screeding contractors in the UK, with no fewer than 11 branches, so we can lay your screed wherever you are.

Liquid screed has many benefits for contractors, not the least of which is that it is far faster to lay than traditional sand and cement screed. Our teams can lay as much as 100 square metres in 45 minutes, and up to 2,000 square metres a day. This is reckoned to be about 20 times as fast as laying a traditional sand and cement screed by hand using trowels.

More and more architects are specifying underfloor heating today because of the advantages it has over radiator systems. Underfloor heating systems work by pumping warm water through plastic tubing which is laid under the floor before the final surface is laid. The warmed water can be provided by any heat source.

This means that every part of the room receives even heating, so there are no cool spots that can occur with a radiator system. Furthermore, there are no radiators, so that means that there is more space in the room.

At UK Screeds we are proud to have over 15 years of experience in the laying of liquid floor screeds throughout England and Wales. We have no less than 11 branches and we can lay a liquid screed for you at any construction site in the two countries.

At UK Screeds we install the very finest flowing screeds which are self-levelling, because, of course, they are in liquid format. However, we go one step further, as we use laser screeding which levels the surface of the screed to a level of SR1, and you cannot get any better than that.

The purpose of a floor screed is to produce as near a level surface as possible upon which the finishing floor is to be laid, whether that is carpet, wood, tile, or more. A concrete substrate can have lots of dips and “waviness” and if you try to lay the finishing floor on top of it there will be problems, especially if it is tile. A screed is a thin layer of material that is laid on the concrete in order to produce a level to as near Surface Regularity 1 as possible. SR1 means that there is no discrepancy of more than 3mm over a 2-metre length.

We are well-known as leading floor screeding contractors throughout England and Wales, and we provide a full floor preparation service from preparing the concrete substrate through to final sanding of the screed so that it is in perfect condition to receive whatever type of final flooring you are going to lay. We also install underfloor heating.