Flooring in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
Hinckley has a flooring question that comes straight out of the hosiery trade, and it catches people out in both directions.
The town spent two and a half centuries putting machinery inside houses. First knitting frames in the upstairs rooms of domestic properties, then powered machinery in the works around Druid Street between 1887 and 1903. Floors built to carry that are not floors built to carry a bedroom, and in the older parts of town you find both, sometimes in the same building.
That cuts two ways. A floor that was built for frames may be considerably stronger than it looks, which occasionally means a heavy stone or tiled finish is achievable where we would otherwise be advising against it. Equally, a former workshop or works that has been converted to living space may have had its floors altered, patched or partly replaced by somebody working to a budget, and what looks like one continuous floor is three different structures meeting under the carpet.
So on the older Hinckley stock we lift a board and look before specifying anything, rather than assuming a standard build up. It takes twenty minutes and it is the difference between a floor that performs and one that telegraphs every join within a year.
Sub-floor ventilation still needs checking wherever there is a suspended floor, because blocked air bricks take the joist ends in the end. On the modern estate housing out towards Burbage and Barwell the floors are solid and the questions become flatness and moisture instead.
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 Hinckley & Bosworth 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 Hinckley street to the next.
In a converted works or a heavily altered older property, floor levels rarely match from room to room, and the junctions are where that shows. We resolve the levels during preparation rather than covering the difference with a trim at the end, because a threshold you notice every day is worse than a floor that took an extra morning.
Timber acclimatises in the building before it is fixed, and it needs somewhere dry to stand for several days. In a small terraced property that is a genuine planning question rather than an afterthought, so we agree where it goes before it is delivered.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
