Room by room · Rochester, ME1
Free measure and quote for living room flooring in Rochester, with samples brought to your property beforehand.
Most living rooms in Rochester sit at the centre of the house, linking a hallway, kitchen or dining area, which means the flooring choice made here tends to set the tone and the transition points for several other rooms at once.
Attic bedrooms tucked under sloped ceilings in period Rochester houses restrict the size of boards or planks that can be carried up, so the room's access, not just its floor area, sets the material.
Playrooms and home offices carved out of spare bedrooms in Horsted often need a harder-wearing floor than the rest of the house, since use patterns there differ from a conventional bedroom.
Cellars converted into extra rooms under older Rochester terraces bring persistent damp readings that a ground-floor room rarely shows, so that space gets tested and specified on its own terms.
The finish around the edges of a living room floor affects how tidy the whole job looks, and there are a few ways to handle the gap between a new floor and existing skirting.
A living room typically has more fixed obstacles than a bedroom, including radiator pipes, a TV aerial point and sometimes a raised hearth, all of which need to be worked around during fitting rather than simply covered.
Timber boards are overlaid with plywood or a solid floor is levelled where needed.
Undercutting, scotia or beading is agreed depending on existing skirting and budget.
Collars and edging trims are fitted around radiators, pipework and any raised hearth.
Photography is from our own projects in Kent and is included to show finish and detail, not to represent any named address.
Living rooms in older {town} properties often sit on suspended timber boards or an uneven solid floor laid decades ago, and neither is guaranteed to be flat enough for a hard floor without preparation.
We reach Rochester via the A228, and cover the wider ME1 district as part of our normal round.
Postcode district ME1, Medway Council.
Suspended timber boards are usually overlaid with plywood to create a stable, flat base before LVT, laminate or engineered wood is fitted, and any squeaking boards are best fixed at this stage.
Not always. Skirting can be undercut so the new flooring slides beneath it for a neat finish, or left in place with a scotia or beading trim covering the expansion gap.
A raised hearth or stone surround usually needs its own edging trim where the new flooring meets it, agreed at survey stage rather than decided on the day of fitting.
This can sometimes be arranged, but any cable routes need to be agreed and marked clearly before fitting so they are not damaged when boards, gripper or adhesive are fixed down.
Open-plan living spaces in Rochester generally benefit from one continuous flooring run rather than several materials meeting mid-room.
We can plan a continuous run through living, dining and kitchen areas with no awkward joins.