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High Wycombe has no census row of its own: the ONS counts Buckinghamshire, and the figures further down this page are the county's because those are the honest ones to publish. They describe a region's houses, not the hall at Sands or Terriers where the oak is actually going. That part gets measured.
Ownership across Buckinghamshire runs to seven homes in ten, and in HP11, HP12 and HP13 the stock leans detached and semi-detached. The terraces are older, built while the town made chairs, and they sit on suspended timber; the newer developments up the valley slopes are laid on screed, sometimes with heating in it.
What works here depends on what is underneath. Over the suspended timber of the older terraces, levelling is the first job, and Engineered Oak Wide Plank looks right once the base is flat. On the screed of the valley-side homes, check for underfloor heating before choosing a board.
A wide oak plank suits the bigger detached and semi-detached homes Buckinghamshire is largely built from, and it holds up on a heated screed where the range is rated.
Shop rangeShallow enough to go over screed without raising floor heights, and it moves heat through better than a thick board, which suits the newer homes above the town.
Shop rangeFine value in a rented home at Booker and Cressex, but it telegraphs every hollow in an old timber floor, so the correction work comes first.
Shop rangeHigh Wycombe is HP11, HP12 and HP13 — Abbey, Disraeli, Booker and Cressex, Castlefield and Oakridge, Downley, Marsh and Micklefield, Ridgeway East, and Hazlemere. Buckinghamshire has been a single unitary authority since 2020. Ownership across the county was 70.0% at the 2021 census, private renting 15.7%. High Wycombe's own history is furniture — it was the centre of English chair-making — and the town still has the workshops and the terraces built around them. Those terraces are suspended timber, and the levelling is the first job. Where the property is one of the newer developments on the valley sides, expect screed and check for underfloor heating before choosing between engineered and solid.
At the 2021 census, 17.2% of households in Buckinghamshire lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 82.3% in a house or bungalow — 17.8% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Buckinghamshire (E06000060) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, BuckinghamshireThe 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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