Flooring Buying Guide
The right choice of flooring will perfectly complement your home - and a new floor can transform any room. Explore our range of flooring styles, colours and finishes, from hard-wearing laminate and LVT to striking engineered wood. Our handy how to guides will help you get it right first time.
Our wide range of high quality flooring offers a selection of colours and materials to suit your style and space. We understand choosing flooring can be a difficult decision as it has to be stylish yet a practical solution for your home. This guide will help you choose the right flooring for you.
Types of flooring
Laminate flooring
Compressed fibreboard overlaid with photographic paper and covered with a protective resin top layer (suitable for living spaces and kitchens).
Advantages
- Easy to install and maintain
- Resists scratches, dents, stains
- Made from 70% wood which is sourced from sustainable forests
- Softer underfoot than tiles, concrete and stones
- More affordable than engineered or solid wood
Solid Wood flooring
Cut from a single piece of solid wood brings natural character, grain and warmth to a room (suitable for living spaces and bedrooms).
Advantages
- Strong and durable flooring with great sound absorption properties
- Timeless and long lasting with scratch resistance
- Tongue & groove joint: can be glued or nailed
- Can be sanded, restained, lacquered or varnished
- Our timber is sourced responsibly and is FSC certified
Engineered Wood flooring
Engineered wood flooring combines all the natural character and durability of solid timber with a strengthened construction that’s even more stable and versatile in today’s homes (suitable for living spaces and kitchen).
Advantages
- Durable with strengthened construction made up of 3 layers
- Click fitting: no glue or nails required
- Textured finish with great scratch resistance
- Our timber is sourced responsibly and is FSC certified
- Compatible with underfloor heating
LVT Luxury Vinyl Click flooring
Luxury Vinyl Flooring features a realistic printed decor, sandwiched between a layer of vinyl providing a resistance to scratches (suitable for living spaces, kitchen, bathrooms).
Advantages
- Most durable flooring
- 100% water resistant
- Fast and simple installation
- Excellent noise reduction and has a soft sound when walked on
- Authentically replicates wooden and tiled floors
Complete your flooring project
Underlays
Ideal for Laminate, Vinyl, Engineered & Solid Wood flooring
Advantages
- Smooths uneven floors
- High compression strength
- Proven sound reduction upon impact
Trims & Threshold bars
Ideal for Laminate, Vinyl, Engineered & Solid Wood flooring
Advantages
- Covers the gap between the two floors and walls
- Creates continuity between the floors & skirting-boards
- Colour matched to our range of Laminate Flooring
Flooring tools
Ideal for Laminate, Vinyl, Engineered & Solid Wood flooring
Advantages
- Maintains the gap around a perimeter
- For pulling planks together and protecting edges of boards when tapping them together
- Great for repairing damaged flooring
Cork expansion strips
Ideal for Laminate, Vinyl, Engineered & Solid Wood flooring
Advantages
- Essential when fitting a floating floor
- Controls the natural expansion of your flooring
- Minimises the impact & prevents rising and moving against the perimeter of a room
