Flooring & Tiles Across Hampshire

Two waterfront cities, administratively separate from the county around them, pull the figures one way; the market towns and garrison districts inland pull them back. Terraces and flats crowd the coast, while the inland stock spreads fairly evenly between detached, semi-detached and terraced. One average would describe neither half, so the specification follows the property rather than the county.

Coastal terraces raised before the Great War rest on joists at ground level and want levelling. City centres rebuilt after the war are solid floor, where the membrane matters more than the boards do, and estate building inland repeats that slab to a pattern. In the cathedral core and the protected streets, original boards cannot come up without consent.