Building types & floor performance

Timber-frame houses

Timber-frame houses need a floor build-up that tolerates frame settlement and shrinkage without cracking, and a drying sequence coordinated with a structure sensitive to trapped moisture.

Masonry new-build houses

Masonry new-builds allow a more predictable floor build-up than timber frame, but plot-wide consistency and coordination with trades across a development still shape the specification.

Apartment separating floors

Separating floors between apartments are governed primarily by sound insulation requirements, which drive the choice of resilient layer, screed depth and floating build-up detailing.

Student accommodation

Student accommodation combines dense room layouts, high footfall turnover and tight summer refurbishment windows, putting pressure on sound performance and installation speed alike.

Hotels

Hotels need quiet, level guest room floors and a screed programme that can be phased around continued trading, since full closure for refurbishment is rarely an option.

Care homes

Care home floors need to support hoists and wheeled equipment safely, feel warm and slip-resistant to residents, and often have to be refurbished around occupied rooms.

Nurseries & early-years rooms

Nurseries need warm, hygienic floors that can be cleaned frequently and are fully cured and finish-compatible before very young children occupy the space.

Primary & secondary schools

School floors combine heavy day-to-day footfall with a fixed refurbishment window in the school holidays, and often mix general classrooms with specialist rooms needing their own detailing.

University laboratories

University laboratory floors need to handle chemical spills, dense services coordination and sometimes vibration-sensitive equipment, within refurbishment windows that can be very tight.

GP & dental clinics

GP and dental clinics need hygienic, joint-minimised floors that support fixed equipment loads, with refurbishment usually squeezed into short closure periods.

Warehouses & Distribution

Flowing screed installed to suit racking loads, forklift traffic and large uninterrupted floor plates typical of warehouse and distribution buildings.

Light Industrial Units

Practical screed solutions for light industrial units that combine workshop, storage and small office areas within a single building envelope.

Workshops & Maker Spaces

Robust screed floors suited to the tool use, bench work and foot traffic typical of workshops, studios and small fabrication spaces.

Agricultural Buildings

Screed solutions for farm buildings being converted or upgraded, from ancillary offices and welfare facilities to diversified visitor spaces.

Showrooms & Retail Display

A dead-flat screed base is central to showroom and retail display floors, where finish quality and reflected light are part of the customer experience.

Laboratories & Research Facilities

Stable, flat screed floors that provide a suitable base for chemically resistant and hygienic finishes required in laboratory and research environments.

Data Centres & Plant Rooms

Reliable, flat screed floors that support raised access flooring, heavy plant and the tight tolerances needed in data centre and plant room environments.

Leisure Centres & Sports Facilities

Screed specifications tailored to the varied wet, dry and heavily trafficked floor zones found across leisure centres and sports facilities.

Commercial Kitchens

A well-formed screed sub-floor supports the falls, hygiene finishes and equipment loads that commercial kitchen environments demand.

Self-Storage Facilities

Durable, level screed floors for self-storage buildings, supporting trolley access, unit partitioning and repeated customer footfall.

Period and listed homes

Period and listed homes usually mean shallow, uneven existing floor structures and a conservation-led approach, so the screed build-up has to work within reduced depth and sensitive detailing.

ICF and SIPs homes

ICF and SIPs homes are usually built to a tight airtightness and thermal performance target, so the ground floor screed build-up needs to be considered as part of that whole-building performance rather than in isolation.

Passivhaus-standard homes

Passivhaus-standard homes push ground floor insulation and thermal bridging control further than most projects, so the screed forms part of a tightly modelled thermal envelope rather than a generic build-up.

Coastal properties

Coastal properties face higher ambient humidity and more variable weather exposure than inland sites, which affects how a liquid screed dries and how the floor build-up manages moisture over time.

Flats above commercial units

Flats sited above shops, offices or other commercial units bring acoustic separation and fire compartmentation into the floor build-up alongside the usual insulation and heating requirements.

Converted chapels and barns

Converting a chapel or barn into a home usually means dealing with a large open-span structure, an uneven or contaminated existing floor, and a change-of-use process that can influence what floor build-up is achievable.

Park homes and modular buildings

Park homes and modular buildings are typically built on a lightweight chassis or as factory-produced modules, which changes how much floor loading and depth a liquid screed build-up can practically work within.

Multi-storey residential blocks

Multi-storey residential blocks repeat the same floating floor build-up across many floor plates, so consistency, acoustic separation between units, and a phased pour and drying programme are central to the specification.

Libraries & Civic Buildings

Libraries, museums and civic buildings place sustained, heavy static loads on the floor from shelving and archive storage, alongside a need for quiet, durable finishes that last for decades of public use.