Ready Mix Floor Screed in Birmingham
Sand and cement screed batched fresh on your site, in the exact quantity the floor needs — supply-only, from 0.5m³, across Birmingham and the West Midlands. Your contractor lays it; we make sure the right amount turns up.
Sand & Cement Screed, Batched On Site
Screed is unforgiving on quantities. Order short and the gang stands about waiting for a top-up; order long and you've paid for material that goes in the skip. Our answer is the volumetric truck: it carries the sand and cement separately and batches your screed on site, fresh, minutes before it goes down.
Because the truck meters what it batches, you get precisely the volume the floor needs — and you only pay for what comes off the truck. Minimum load 0.5m³, and no part-load penalty, ever.
Guide price: sand and cement screed supplied from around £130/m³, +VAT — confirmed when you book.
We batch and deliver screed; we don't lay it. Laying is a skilled trade in its own right and it belongs with your screeding contractor. If you don't have one lined up, ask — we can point you to laying contractors.
Screed for Underfloor Heating
An underfloor heating floor is only as good as the screed around the pipes. The screed is what carries warmth from pipe to surface, so coverage is everything: full, even contact around every pipe, no voids, no thin spots. Get that wrong and you've buried an expensive heating system in an insulating blanket of air gaps.
Being straight with you: flowing liquid screeds suit underfloor heating well, because they wrap the pipework as they flow — more on those below. Plenty of UFH floors are done in well-compacted sand and cement screed too; the compaction around the pipes is your screeder's craft, and the heating system's spec should call which screed it wants.
Whichever way the spec goes, tell us the area and depth and we'll batch the sand and cement screed to the exact volume — fresh, on site, on the day your screeder wants it.
Liquid Screed
Liquid screed — you'll also hear "flowing screed" — is poured as a free-flowing liquid that finds its own level and flows tightly around pipework and into corners. It's placed by specialist laying crews rather than trowelled by hand, which is why it's usually sold supply-and-lay.
Market context: liquid screed typically runs £16–£25 per m² laid, at a domestic 50mm depth. That's a laid price from specialist crews — not a like-for-like comparison with our supply-only per-m³ rate for sand and cement.
Ask us about availability when you call. If a liquid system is the right answer for your floor and we can't supply it, we'll say so and point you to people who can — we'd rather you get the right floor than the wrong order.
How Much Screed Do You Need?
Volume is area times depth. Measure the floor in square metres, take the screed depth in metres — 100mm is 0.1m, 50mm is 0.05m — and multiply. A 20m² kitchen at 50mm is 20 × 0.05 = 1m³.
The depth itself comes from your spec or your screeding contractor: it depends on what's under the screed and what's going over it, so we won't guess it for you here. Get the depth from whoever's laying, then the volume is arithmetic.
With most suppliers you'd now agonise over how much extra to add. With us, don't bother: the truck carries more material than the job needs, batches what's asked for, and the meter decides the bill. Our concrete calculator does the area-times-depth sums for you — it works for screed volumes just the same.
Screed vs Concrete — What's the Difference?
Concrete is the structure: cement, sand and coarse stone — 20mm aggregate as standard — doing the load-bearing work in slabs and foundations. Screed is the finish: a finer sand-and-cement layer laid over the structural slab to leave a smooth, level surface for the floor covering. It isn't structural, and it isn't meant to be.
If you're still at the slab stage, that's us too. A floor that's going to be screeded typically wants a C8/10-strength mix — what builders call GEN1; we batch an equivalent designed mix. See our concrete grades guide for the plain-English rundown, or sort the whole floor build-up with one call — concrete delivery across Birmingham is our bread and butter.
Floor Screed FAQs
Do you lay the screed as well as supply it?
No — we're supply-only. We batch and deliver the screed; laying is your screeding contractor's trade. If you don't have one, ask — we can point you to laying contractors.
How much does floor screed cost in Birmingham?
Sand and cement screed supplied from around £130 per m³, +VAT — a guide price, confirmed when you book. For context, liquid screed in the wider market typically runs £16–£25 per m² laid at a domestic 50mm depth — a supply-and-lay figure, not a like-for-like comparison.
What's the smallest amount of screed you'll deliver?
0.5m³ — and because we batch on site and meter what's discharged, there's no part-load penalty. You pay for what comes off the truck.
How do I work out how much screed I need?
Volume is area times depth. Measure the floor in square metres, take the depth in metres (50mm = 0.05m), and multiply — a 20m² room at 50mm is 1m³. The depth itself should come from your spec or screeding contractor, and our calculator does the sums.
Can sand and cement screed go over underfloor heating?
It's done all the time — what matters is full, even coverage around the pipes, which is your screeder's craft. Flowing liquid screeds suit underfloor heating well because they wrap the pipework as they flow, so let the system's spec and your contractor make the call — and ask us about liquid screed availability.
What's the difference between screed and concrete?
Concrete is the structure — cement, sand and coarse stone doing the load-bearing work. Screed is a finer sand-and-cement finishing layer laid over the slab to give a smooth, level surface for the floor covering. It isn't structural and isn't meant to be.
Exact-Quantity Screed, Mixed On Your Site
Tell us the area and the depth — we'll do the maths, batch it fresh, and you pay only for what comes off the truck. 7 days a week, 7am–5pm.