Tag: Liquid Screed Gloucestershire

If you are working on a construction project and need to level out the substrate before laying the final flooring, you may be asking yourself about the benefits of flowing screed in Gloucestershire. After all, they are a relatively recent addition to the construction industry, but why do people claim that they are so much better than a simple sand and cement screed?

At UK Screeds, we are often asked why we install water-based underfloor heating in conjunction with our liquid screed in Gloucestershire, and the answer is actually very simple. Overall, the running costs of water-based underfloor heating are going to be considerably lower than using electricity.

There is nothing new about underfloor heating. It can be traced back as far as 7,000 years ago when people cut trenches into the floors and covered them with stones which were heated by strategically place fires. However, we have come on with our heating systems since those days, and today your underfloor heating can be either an electric system using electric cables, or a water-based system with heated water being pumped through a system of pipes under the floor.

More and more homes these days are being fitted with underfloor heating because of the many benefits that it has over and above a radiator system. Underfloor heating is actually nothing new, because it goes back to, at the very least, Roman times. They used to dig a trench and cover it with stones, and then heat the air under the stones from a strategically placed fire.

When you are designing any sort of new building project, one of the many things that you need to consider is the levelness of the floors. For many years now, the answer has been to cover the substrate with a layer of screed in order to provide as flat a surface as possible on which to add the final flooring, whatever it may be.

Liquid screed floors, such as anhydrite screeds, have become very common as people recognise their various benefits. It is a relatively easy to lay, low cost, fast-drying, self-levelling floor option that works especially well with tile floors.