Flooring in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Flooring in Market Harborough is largely free of the planning complications that shape the rest of the work here, which makes it a technical job rather than a procedural one.
On the older housing the ground floor is usually suspended timber over a ventilated void, and the air bricks feeding that void are doing a job. The number that have been rendered over, planted in front of or built up against by a later extension is remarkable, and blocking them stops the void breathing and takes the joist ends in the end. We check that the ventilation still works before laying anything, because a beautiful floor over a rotting one is a waste of your money.
There is one point specific to the designated areas. Where air bricks sit in a front elevation and have been covered by a raised path or a rebuilt front boundary, correcting that may itself touch on the front of the property, so it is worth raising early rather than treating it as incidental.
On the estate housing the floors are solid and the questions become flatness and moisture. Most need levelling before a hard covering goes down, and we test for moisture rather than trusting the look of a slab.
Timber acclimatises in the house before it is fixed. Our flooring page covers the coverings we fit and the preparation that goes under them.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Harborough District Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our flooring page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Market Harborough street to the next.
Flooring is the last trade in and the easiest to ruin, so we programme it late and protect it once down. In an occupied house we lay in sections, keeping a dry route from the front door to the stairs throughout.
If underfloor heating is wanted, settle it before the build up is fixed. On a solid floor the choice between digging out for insulation and a low profile overlay that costs headroom at every doorway is a real one and much cheaper made at drawing stage.
Acclimatisation needs somewhere dry to stand for several days, which is worth planning rather than assuming.
Where a new floor build up raises the finished level at a front door, the threshold detail becomes visible from the street, and on a protected frontage that is worth checking rather than assuming. We resolve the levels at the preparation stage rather than leaving a step that has to be explained afterwards.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
