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📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 3 min read

Screed Handover Checklist

Handing a screeded area over to the flooring contractor is an important moment. Get it right and the floor finish goes down smoothly. Miss something...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 4 min read

Avoiding Disputes: Records and Sign-off

Most flooring problems can be avoided with good planning and proper testing. When questions do come up, the projects that resolve them quickly are usually...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 4 min read

How to Speed Up Screed Drying Safely

When the programme is tight, everyone wants the screed dry sooner. There are sensible ways to help drying along, and there are shortcuts that cause...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 4 min read

Screed Drying Times by Type

“How long until we can lay the floor?” It’s one of the most common questions on any site. The honest answer is that it depends...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 4 min read

How to Test Screed Moisture Properly: Hygrometer and CM Tests

Before any floor finish goes down, someone needs to answer one question: is the screed dry enough? Guesswork, a hand on the surface or a...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Learning Zone ⏱️ 4 min read

Why Damp Screed Ruins New Flooring

A new floor finish looks perfect on the day it goes down. A few weeks later the seams are lifting, the vinyl is bubbling, or...
📅 October 22, 2026 👤 Spencer Warner
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 3 min read

5 Things You Need to Know About Your Screed Before Refurbishing Your Floors

Once your old floors are stripped of their floor covering, it is important to make a thorough assessment of the remaining substrate to make sure...
📅 July 25, 2025 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 3 min read

The Screed Scientist has an Apprentice!

If you have joined our gang on the Screed Scientist website to learn a thing or two about screeding, well consider yourself lucky in that...
📅 December 15, 2019 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

Screed Protection Considerations

Protection to levelling floor screeds should be carried out as soon as possible after installation. This is especially true on large construction sites with where...
📅 October 26, 2016 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Newsletter ⏱️ 3 min read

Wearing (Granolithic) Screed, what is it and where best to use it.

Wearing screeds, widely known by the former name of granolithic screeds, are high-density toppings suitable for application to green or hard concrete slabs. Offering characteristics...
📅 January 11, 2016 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 4 min read

Screed Scientist Christmas 2015

MIND = Make It No Danger It is that wonderful time of the year again. Playful snowflakes, the smell of pine from the Christmas tree,...
📅 December 14, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Newsletter ⏱️ 3 min read

Screed Reinforcement – What’s the Crack

Shrinking, curling and cracking can lead to problems with flooring. Using reinforcement may reduce their impact and lend greater strength to the floor. Before we...
📅 November 19, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 5 min read

Relative Humidity – Do You Know What it Means for your Screed?

At first glance, relative humidity (RH) is a quite confusing topic. Since people use different terms such as moisture, vapour, water content, relative humidity, absolute...
📅 October 16, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 3 min read

Tiling onto Cracked Screed – Addressing Underlying Causes of Tile Floor Failure

Do you need to lay or are you worried about large format tiles placed directly over cracked screeds? Have you heard about crack inducement joints?...
📅 September 29, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 CSC Screeding ⏱️ 2 min read

Our 5 Most Popular Pages This Month

The Screed Scientist website is great for expanding your screeding knowledge. And this month nearly 6000 visitors used it to help them with their projects....
📅 August 5, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 5 min read

What affects screed drying time?

All screed mixes contain more water in them than what is required to hydrate the cement. Just about 40-50% of the water added to a...
📅 July 6, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Preventing sulphate attacks on anhydrite screeds

Anhydrite/gypsum based screeds are popular for their free-flowing and self-levelling properties as well as ease of installation. They differ from traditional screeds in that they...
📅 May 20, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Storing Sand and Cement? Quick Tips

The quality of the screeding material plays a major role in determining the final strength and quality of a screed. Though one of the major...
📅 April 9, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Problems caused by damp screed highlighted in Tomorrow’s Flooring article

News about delays in opening a part of Clitheroe Community Hospital was an unfortunate reminder that moisture levels in screed are ignored at your peril. ...
📅 January 20, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Leading Edge Protection

The Screed Scientist is always on the lookout for examples of builders who really know their stuff. You can see it in the attention to...
📅 January 5, 2015 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 3 min read

Seasons Screedings from the ScreedScientist

Is it Christmas already?? 2014 has absolutely sped by. Our mission to be informative, helpful and educational in all matters screeding, continues unabated. With the...
📅 December 10, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

What you need to know about using screed pumps

Over the last couple of years, we’ve received a lot of positive comments about our articles. SO over the next couple of weeks we’ll be...
📅 October 29, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Newsletter ⏱️ 1 min read

What you Need to Know About Concrete Substrates

Over the last couple of years, we’ve received a lot of positive comments about our articles. SO over the next couple of weeks we’ll be...
📅 October 22, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

How Important is the Surface Accuracy of Floor Bases?

Surface Accuracy Surface accuracy is defined as the relative difference in elevation over prescribed distances. In simpler terms, it is a measure of the flatness...
📅 July 11, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Ready-Mix Screed or Site-Mixed Screed – the better option?

With screed failure becoming a widespread issue in the UK, contractors and builders are more cautious than ever when it comes to choosing their screed....
📅 July 11, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 5 min read

Portland Cement : A Brief History

History and Development of Portland Cement Portland cement, arguably one of mankind’s most important manufactured materials, was invented and patented by Joseph Aspdin from Leeds...
📅 June 20, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 4 min read

The Difference between Concrete and Screed

Concrete and screed and are essentially formed of the same basic ingredients – cement, aggregates and water. But what makes them different is- the size...
📅 May 27, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 4 min read

The Pros and Cons of Manufactured Sand

Before we get into the advantages and disadvantages of manufactured sand, what exactly is manufactured sand? Manufactured sand is sand produced by crushing rocks, quarry...
📅 May 12, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Newsletter ⏱️ 4 min read

The Different Aggregate Options

Aggregates are inert, granular materials which form a major component of screed and concrete mixes. With urban expansion and environmental constraints putting a strain on...
📅 March 17, 2014 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Uncategorized ⏱️ 1 min read

The components that make a good screed: A quick guide

Every detail right from the type of cement and grade of aggregate to the method of storage of materials, play a major role in determining...
📅 December 10, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Doctor ⏱️ 1 min read

Testing Service for Floor Screeding

We are very pleased to announce that we can now offer an impartial and independent screed testing service backed up by the real Screed Scientist...
📅 November 15, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

It’s not Rocket Science Part 3

Our collaboration with Tomorrows Flooring to raise awareness in the floor screeding industry continues with the next instalment of the Screed Scientist content appearing in...
📅 September 17, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Doctor ⏱️ 2 min read

Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 4 – 6

Following on from Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 1 – 3  we present tips 4 -6. 4. Screed Mix Check that the raw...
📅 September 13, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Surface Regularity of screeds for normal accuracy flooring

Surface regularity is generally defined as the limitation of deviation of the surface beneath a straightedge laid flat on the surface. As the measurement criteria varies...
📅 August 15, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Industry Recognition

We are very pleased and honored to announce that the Screed Scientist initiative has gained some incredible attention. What started out as just a little...
📅 July 15, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Do you know your Datums from your Surface Regularity?

Is seems there is much confusion in the industry around the concepts of the “flatness of screed” and the “levels” of screed. In an attempt...
📅 July 13, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 7 – 10

Following on from  Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 4 – 6   we present tips 7 -10. 7. Finishing Check that the finishing...
📅 June 21, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Doctor ⏱️ 1 min read

Checklist for onsite supervision for screeding Tips 1 – 3

From the verification of the screed specification to the installation of the screed and the adoption of screed protection measures, a successful screeding project requires...
📅 May 24, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

Great New Resource for Screed Care

For a while the Screed Doctor was feeling unloved. We had great content for the Screed Scientist and the Underfloor Heating Man. But the guy...
📅 April 30, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Great feedback for The Screed Scientist

We are chuffed to bits to get some great feedback. If you have been following us for long enough you will know that The Screed...
📅 April 17, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Permission to reuse The Screed Scientist® content has been removed

With immediate effect normal rules for copyright apply – we are no longer permitting reuse of the our content. If you wish to use our...
📅 February 3, 2013 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 4 min read

The Screeding Winter Checklist

The Screed Scientist® would like to offer some yuletide greetings and would wish that 2013 can become a prosperous year for our readers. We asked...
📅 December 12, 2012 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Underfloor Heating Man ⏱️ 2 min read

Design tips to prevent disruption to flooring due to movement of screeds in heated floors

Floors with under floor heating systems are highly prone to disruption in serviceability unless appropriate stress relief measures are taken right at the design stage....
📅 May 15, 2012 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Competition ⏱️ 1 min read

Competition winner and next competition

October competition winner P. Baggs – announced 19th October 2011 Question: Floor screeding sometimes needs a little bit of creativity! Take a look at this...
📅 October 21, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 4 min read

How to install rigid floor insulation on ground floor concrete substrates before screeding

The following information is a guide to the installation of rigid insulation on ground floors to receive a screed. The correct installation of polythene DPM,...
📅 October 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

The importance of flatness of concrete substrates for the installation of unbonded screeds

  A flat concrete substrate is one of the most important pre-requisites for the application of unbonded screeds or floating screeds. The purpose of keeping a screed unbounded...
📅 October 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

Easy steps for rolling up screed pipes

If you thought rolling up the screed pipes is no rocket science, we agree with you. But, it is often the seemingly obvious steps that...
📅 October 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

Standard steps for washing a screed pump

As important as the use of the screed pump is it’s cleaning and maintenance. Given below are the standard steps to be followed in washing...
📅 October 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Tips for clearing the blockage in the mixing vessel of screed pumps

A blockage in the mixing vessel of screed pumps will become evident when the pressure builds up on the pressure gauge and the screed pipe...
📅 October 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

How to locate and clear the blockage in a screed pipe

Blockages in the screed pipes is a common issue that has to be dealt with while using a screed pump. Though the entire procedure of...
📅 October 18, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Procedure for the mixing of screed using a screed pump

The quality of a screed is highly reliant on the method of mixing of the screed. Force action mixing of screeds using screed pumps is...
📅 October 18, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 1 min read

Steps to follow while bringing a screed pump to an emergency stop

Emergency stop procedure Hit emergency stop button or switch off the screed pump engine. Disengage blades. Release air pressure to stop any flow of screed....
📅 October 18, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Sample checklist for ensuring a screed pump is ready for use

Be it manual work or the use of machinery, it is always ideal to follow a set procedure to ensure higher productivity and improved efficiency....
📅 October 18, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 2 min read

Tips on Choosing Screed Reinforcement

Screed reinforcement is a common practice adopted to improve the strength of screed constructions, curb shrinkage and cracking and impart better impact resistance to screeds....
📅 October 18, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 3 min read

5 easy tips for a quick screed failure!

You might frequently see tips on how to protect a screed. But as they constantly go ignored- adding to the number of screed failures, we...
📅 October 3, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 6 min read

A guide to the correct use of a screed pump.

Follow this procedure: Visually inspect the screed pump for obvious faults. Check the engine oil by using the dip stick. Check the compressor oil whilst...
📅 September 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Top Tips ⏱️ 3 min read

Installation of rigid floor insulation on ground floor concrete substrates to receive screed.

The following information is a guide to the installation of rigid insulation on ground floors to receive a screed. The correct installation of polythene DPM,...
📅 September 19, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Amazing Marks & Spencer flooring

We could not resist uploading this amazing picture taken on a camera phone. As you can probably guess, we are passionate about what we do...
📅 August 1, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Parliamentary wear and tear!

Take a look at these pictures. We would like to say that we were following in the foot steps of Obama, but that would be...
📅 June 13, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

How can a floor screed project go so wrong?

A perfect example of how a project can fail with a lack of consideration for the sequence of works. Why would you choose a fast...
📅 June 11, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 3 min read

How even the best floor finish can fail?

Always make sure that the moisture tests are conducted You had the most expensive carpets imported, and got the best screed contractors to work on...
📅 June 7, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Floor Screed Dry Joint Inspires The Screed Scientist®

Time to banish floor screed failures! If you look at this image, you will see a dry joint. Note how the screed is crumbling away....
📅 May 31, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Polls ⏱️ 1 min read

Improve the screeding industry and want to be heard?

If you have any further comments that can assist to improve the industry and want to be heard, please let us know. [poll id=”4″]
📅 May 23, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

A Spider on your Floor

Just found this. A great little flash game. http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ A friend sent me one of those circular emails. Normally I send them straight to trash....
📅 May 16, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Who is The Screed Scientist®?

Our keen readers will soon spot who is The Screed Scientist®. Which one? Do we have any impostors in the ranks? Wikipedia defines:  An impostor...
📅 May 6, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 The Screed Scientist® ⏱️ 1 min read

Having the right tools and people?

Need your screed projects to go right? Get the right people, tools and training.  Floor screed projects are not complicated, but the details do matter....
📅 April 15, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Case Studies ⏱️ 2 min read

How a floor finish can fail: A case study

The screeding contract for the recent screeding project for the new sports hall and changing area at Uxbridge College was taken up by a screeding...
📅 April 15, 2011 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com
📂 Screeding Tips ⏱️ 3 min read

How to Prepare the Floor Substrate for Levelling Screeds and Toppings

The key to the successful implementation of a bonded application is to achieve a good bond between the substrate and the applied bonding coat. Proper...
📅 December 6, 2010 👤 info@themarketingmaniacs.com

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