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Engineered Hardwood guide
An engineered board is a sandwich: a real timber wear layer on top, a cross-laid core of plywood or a dense fibreboard beneath it, and usually a balancing veneer on the back. The cross-lamination is the whole point.
11 min read21 September 2026 - Guide
Laminate Flooring guide
Laminate flooring is a printed decorative layer and a tough transparent wear layer pressed onto a dense board core, cut into planks that click together.
12 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Vinyl Flooring guide
Vinyl covers three quite different products in British homes. Sheet vinyl comes in a roll and is cut and fitted in large pieces, which is why it is still the first choice for bathrooms and utility rooms where a…
12 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Luxury Vinyl Plank guide
Luxury vinyl plank is the long, narrow format of luxury vinyl, sold to look like a board. What separates one product from another is not the printed film but the core beneath it.
11 min read21 September 2026 - Guide
Carpet Installation guide
Carpet remains the usual floor covering in British bedrooms, on stairs and across landings, and fitting it is a trade in its own right. A fitted carpet is not simply rolled out.
15 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Carpet Repair guide
Carpet repair puts right a specific fault without replacing the floor covering in a whole room. The common jobs are re-stretching a carpet that has rippled, patching a burn or a stain that no cleaning will lift,…
12 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Tile Installation guide
Tiling covers floors, walls, splashbacks and showers, in ceramic, porcelain and natural stone. It is the most permanent of the common floor finishes and the least tolerant of a poor base, because a tiled floor is a…
12 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Tile Repair guide
Tile repair deals with a fault in a finished tiled surface without stripping the whole floor or wall: a tile cracked by something dropped on it, a chipped corner at a doorway, a tile that rocks or clicks underfoot, a…
14 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Grout Repair guide
Grout repair renews the joints between tiles rather than the tiles themselves. It covers raking out grout that has cracked, crumbled, washed out or stained beyond cleaning, packing fresh grout into the joints and…
14 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Epoxy Flooring guide
A resin floor is not a covering laid on a slab; it is a coating chemically bonded to it, mixed on site from two components that react and harden.
10 min read21 September 2026 - Guide
Garage Flooring guide
A garage floor is the hardest-working slab in most British houses, and the least looked after. It gets a cold, wet car parked on it, road salt dripping off the arches all winter, oil, brake dust, bicycles, freezers,…
11 min read21 September 2026 - Guide
Concrete Floors guide
Treating concrete as the finished floor rather than as the thing you cover up has moved from warehouses into houses, and it covers several quite different jobs.
11 min read21 September 2026
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