Serving Sturry for LVT — the Canterbury team you can drop in on

Canterbury's property mix — Listed period homes, student lets, modern HMOs and city-centre retail units — sets the LVT brief before we even quote. In Wincheap we tend to lift onto bitumen-bedded chip; around Sturry the subfloor is more often screed with the occasional access hatch to plan around. A historic cathedral city with a large student population and busy commercial centre, which is why LVT spec here is rarely one-size-fits-all.

Access-wise, Canterbury works well for us: 7 miles from Whitstable, off the A28 corridor, with our vans running past Sturry village most weeks and Canterbury Retail Park on the commercial rota. That matters for serving your local area jobs — we can drop samples, run a re-measure, or bring an extra length of lvt the same day.

Right in Sturry, LVT jobs share a set of practical constraints: modern new-build estates and 1960s semis dominate the streets, subfloors run the age of the estate, and access off the A28 means most deliveries drop straight to the door.

Sub-floor stories vary block-by-block in Canterbury. Around Wincheap the older listed period homes tend to sit on suspended timber with bitumen felt underneath, so lifting existing lvt usually means scraping and re-boarding a section before the new lay. Newer plots off A28 are more forgiving — a moisture reading, a screed skim, and we're on with the lvt.

Timing-wise, Canterbury works best for us if the survey lands early morning — traffic through Sturry village and along A28 tightens by mid-morning. Delivery for larger lvt runs into Wincheap tends to work on the earlier slot, whereas smaller lifts around Sturry are fine any time.

Beyond the town centre, we regularly quote lvt out towards Ashford — same Kent team, same warehouse pricing, same paperwork. If your Canterbury address sits on the CT1 edge, that's still inside our service radius.