Flooring in Bedworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Flooring is the part of a job people think least about beforehand and notice most afterwards, and in Bedworth it comes down to which of two constructions is under you.
The older terraces generally have a suspended timber ground floor over a ventilated void. The air bricks feeding that void are doing a job, and the number that have been rendered over, planted in front of or built up against by a later extension is remarkable. Block the ventilation and the void stops breathing and the joist ends begin to go. Before anything is laid we check it still works, because a beautiful floor over a rotting one is a waste of your money.
On this ground there is a second reason to look at a floor properly before covering it. Where a floor is noticeably out of level in an older Bedworth house it is worth understanding why rather than simply screeding over it, because a self levelling compound hides a symptom without answering the question. Usually the answer is ordinary age. Occasionally it is worth a closer look first.
Later housing has a solid floor, where the questions are flatness and moisture. Most need levelling before a hard covering goes down, and a floor out by a few millimetres over a couple of metres shows badly in large format tile or engineered board.
Timber acclimatises in the house before it is fixed. Our flooring page covers the coverings and the preparation 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 Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough 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 Bedworth 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 terrace with one circulation route we lay in sections, so there is always a dry route from the front door to the stairs rather than a ground floor closed off for a week.
If underfloor heating is on the list, settle it before the floor build up rather than after. On a solid floor the choice is excavating to get insulation underneath or laying a low profile system over the top, which costs headroom at every doorway and matters in a colliery cottage where the ceilings were never generous. Both work, they are very different jobs, and the decision is much cheaper made at the drawing stage.
Part of our wider building work in Bedworth.
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.
