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Two towns answer to this name: around Four Oaks, Mere Green and Little Aston the houses are large and old, while on the Erdington and Kingstanding edge in B23 and B44 the streets are tighter and the rooms smaller. Work out which of the two your own address belongs to before taking advice from this page.
The census figures for Sutton Coldfield are Birmingham’s, so the semi-detached, terraced and purpose-built flat mix they show describes the city rather than Sutton itself. Across B72–B76 there are larger inter-war and Victorian houses around Four Oaks and Little Aston, mostly on suspended timber ground floors.
Rooms in the older Sutton houses are big enough that plank width becomes a real decision rather than a detail – a wider engineered oak board reads calmer across a large floor. Over suspended timber the underlay and expansion gap matter as much as the board.
A Victorian or inter-war room at Four Oaks takes a wide oak plank without crowding it, and engineered board copes with movement in a suspended timber floor.
Shop rangeClick-lock LVT works in the flats and terraces on the B23 and B44 side: shallow build-up at thresholds, hard wearing underfoot, and it wipes clean after spills.
Shop rangeLaminate is a fair choice for a busy through route on a budget, though across a wide Victorian room the repeat in its pattern begins to show.
Shop rangeSutton Coldfield covers B72, B73, B74, B75 and B76, with B23 and B44 on the Erdington and Kingstanding side. Administratively it is part of Birmingham, which is why the census figures here are the city's: ownership 52.7%, private renting 22.6%, social renting 23.5% — a profile that reflects Birmingham as a whole rather than Sutton Coldfield in particular, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. Sutton has its own town council and a substantial stock of larger inter-war and Victorian houses around Four Oaks and Little Aston. In that kind of property the ground floor is usually suspended timber and the rooms are large enough that plank width becomes a real decision rather than a detail.
At the 2021 census, 25.4% of households in Birmingham lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 74.5% in a house or bungalow — 27.8% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Birmingham (E08000025) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, BirminghamThe 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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