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A new floor in a GU14 block starts from a base that was poured level, which is not how the rest of this list begins. Almost everywhere the first money goes on levelling a timber floor that has moved; on the airfield land it does not, and that budget is free for the board itself.
What has changed in Farnborough is the volume of apartment building: the town centre and the former airfield land have added purpose-built flats to a stock that was already semis and terraces through Empress, Fernhill and Knellwood. Where the home is leasehold, the lease sets the impact sound requirement.
Private renting takes roughly one household in five across Rushmoor, and the newer flats add a second constraint on top of that: the lease. In a flat the acoustic underlay is settled before the surface, and LVT Vinyl Click-Lock sits on one without adding height.
In a house at Cherrywood or Knellwood a wide board has room to work; take it into a leasehold flat and the lease, not the plank, decides.
Shop rangeIt can go straight onto a rated acoustic underlay, and the combined build-up stays low, which is what makes it workable in the flats on the airfield land.
Shop rangeCost-effective in a privately rented house, and Rushmoor has plenty of those; in a flat above another home it goes down only on the underlay the lease calls for.
Shop rangeFarnborough covers GU14 and GU16 — Cove and Southwood, Empress, Cherrywood, Fernhill, and across to Ash Vale, Frimley and Blackwater and Hawley. Like Aldershot it sits in Rushmoor borough, where 21.5% of households rented privately at the 2021 census against 60.5% owning. What distinguishes Farnborough is what has been built here recently: the town centre and the former airfield land have seen substantial new apartment development, and apartments change the flooring question entirely. In a flat the lease usually specifies impact sound insulation, and a hard floor laid without it is a dispute rather than a design choice. Read the lease before choosing the floor, not after it is down.
At the 2021 census, 27.5% of households in Rushmoor lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 72.1% in a house or bungalow — 23.5% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Rushmoor (E07000092) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, RushmoorThe 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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