Flooring in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
Flooring is the part of a job people think least about beforehand and notice most afterwards, and in Nuneaton it comes down to which of two constructions is under you.
The Victorian housing generally has a suspended timber ground floor over a ventilated void. The air bricks feeding that void are doing a job, and the number of them 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. We check before laying anything, because a beautiful floor over a rotting one is a waste of your money.
The later housing has a solid floor and 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 looks fine to the eye and shows badly in large format tile or engineered board.
There is a Nuneaton specific point on solid floors worth raising. Where a floor has been laid over made up ground, and in a town with this much industrial history a fair number have, settlement can be uneven and localised rather than general. A floor with a dip in one place rather than a slope across the room is worth understanding before it is covered.
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 Nuneaton street to the next.
Flooring is the last trade in and the easiest to ruin, so we programme it late and protect it once it is down. In an occupied house we lay in sections, keeping a dry route from the front door to the stairs rather than closing the ground floor for a week.
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 an overlay system is a real one and much cheaper made at drawing stage.
On any solid floor we test for moisture before laying rather than trusting the look of it, because a slab can appear dry and still be wet enough to lift an adhesive.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
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.
