Flooring & Tiles Across Northamptonshire

Census figures barely move across this county – ownership, private letting, social letting, near enough the same from one authority to the next. What sits under the floor does move. A steel town laid out in the middle of the last century was built on concrete; a boot-and-shoe town nearby stands on boards a century older. Flats hardly figure.

Nearly every job is a whole house: a hall carrying the entire household, a staircase, two storeys wanting one unbroken run of colour. That puts the wear rating and a matched nosing ahead of acoustic layers, which have little to do in a street of semis and detached houses. Downstairs the base sets the preparation – a moisture reading on concrete, levelling on boards.