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Ashford Borough holds more than fifty thousand households, and houses outnumber flats by better than six to one. The consequence for flooring is scale rather than style: a Godinton or Goat Lees ground floor runs hall, living room and kitchen together, so the quantity is settled before the colour is.
Detached houses edge out semis across TN23 and TN24, with terraces third – a family-housing mix rather than a flat-heavy one. Ownership is high and private renting has drifted up only gently. Older properties out towards Charing sit on suspended timber, so lift a corner before ordering.
Ashford is largely an owner-occupier district, and an owner buys a floor they intend to keep, which points to Engineered Oak Wide Plank across the main living space in Bybrook or Godinton, with water-resistant LVT along the kitchen and utility side.
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate Ashford, giving the floor area wide boards ask for, and the layered construction copes with movement over suspended timber.
Shop rangeIn a TN24 kitchen, LVT handles spills and stays wipeable, and it sits low enough to meet an adjoining wood floor without an awkward step.
Shop rangeOver the suspended timber found in older Ashford properties, laminate needs a sound underlay to feel solid; it suits a rented house or a room refreshed cheaply.
Shop rangeWe deliver to TN23 and TN24 — Beaver, Bockhanger, Bybrook, Godinton, Goat Lees, Highfield and the newer estates at Conningbrook and Little Burton Farm. Ashford is a district within Kent, so a two-tier authority: planning goes through Ashford Borough Council, county matters through Kent. Ownership stood at 66.4% at the 2021 census and private renting at 17.7%, up 3.4 points in a decade — a steady drift rather than the sharp swing seen further into the commuter belt. That profile favours engineered wood in the family rooms and a waterproof floor where the kitchen and utility meet. Before ordering, lift a corner of the existing floor: the older cottages around Charing sit on suspended timber, the estates east of the station on a slab.
At the 2021 census, 13.1% of households in Ashford lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 85.6% in a house or bungalow — 22.2% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Ashford (E07000105) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, AshfordThe same questions come up in every town we deliver to. These four references answer them once, with the source in each case.
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