Room by room · Canterbury, CT1
In-house fitters across Canterbury for utility room floors that stand up to daily laundry loads and the odd leak.
Reception rooms knocked through into one another in renovated Canterbury houses lose their separate identity but keep two different subfloor histories, so the join in the middle of that combined room needs levelling.
The flooring in a utility room needs to handle appliance vibration over years of use as much as it needs to handle water, and the two demands call for slightly different things from the subfloor and the covering laid over it.
Front rooms in a historic cathedral city with a large student population and busy commercial centre Canterbury tend to face the street, and bay windows there add cuts that a standard rectangle room never needs. The measure has to account for the bay separately.
Upstairs bays above bay-fronted rooms in Canterbury houses often have a dip where the bay roof meets the wall, and that dip has to be levelled before carpet or LVT goes down.
We reach Canterbury via the A2, and cover the wider CT1 district as part of our normal round.
A raised or sealed threshold at the utility room door helps contain a leak to the room where it started rather than letting water spread into an adjoining kitchen or hallway, which is worth planning for at the same time as the flooring itself.
Concrete or timber subfloors are inspected for moisture, damage or excessive deflection.
Existing flooring and adhesive residue are stripped back to a sound, clean subfloor.
A moisture check is carried out on converted garage or lean-to slabs prone to residual damp.
We'll talk through textured, slip-resistant options for wet feet and paws.
07702 737267Coved skirting, where the floor covering turns up the wall, removes the joint at floor level entirely and is worth considering in rooms with a genuine leak risk, though standard sealed skirting can also work well.
Yes, though a plywood overlay is often used first to stiffen the timber and reduce deflection, since movement under appliance weight can otherwise stress a rigid floor covering.
A textured safety flooring or a grippy vinyl copes well with mud, grit and wet feet, giving better slip resistance than a smooth, plain vinyl finish.
Long-term static weight can leave indentation marks, particularly on softer vinyl, so load-spreading feet or a small plinth under the freezer help reduce the risk over years of use.
These are our own installations in the county. They illustrate the type of work covered on this page rather than a particular job.
Postcode district CT1, Canterbury City Council.
Whether vinyl or LVT, treat a utility room like a wet room when it comes to waterproofing detail.
We'll talk through textured, slip-resistant options for wet feet and paws.