Flooring & Tiles Across Lincolnshire

Houses make up almost the whole round here – terraced streets behind the fish docks and the steelworks, then semis and detached plots spreading out beyond them, with barely a flat between. One cathedral city inside the county lets privately on a scale the two industrial towns do not approach.

Because hardly any floor here sits over another household, sound is not a downward problem. It travels sideways through terrace party walls, which pass it more readily than a modern separating wall does, and within the house through first-floor joists, where loose fixings are worth curing while the boards are up. The base, not an acoustic mat, is where the budget goes.