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Browse CollectionsThe hallway takes more traffic than any other room, so durability and first impressions both matter. Hard-wearing LVT, quality laminate and engineered wood stand up to muddy boots and daily wear while still looking sharp.
On a solid ground floor, click-lock LVT and laminate both float without fixings, which suits much of the RG12 stock from Bullbrook to Great Hollands. Engineered oak will float there too, provided the membrane below is sound – worth checking before anything goes down, not after.
A tough wear layer resists scratches and scuffs, and a wood or stone effect makes an instant statement as you walk through the door. Concrete holds the room's cold and gives it up slowly, so on a Bracknell slab it is the underlay that decides how warm the floor feels underfoot. That base does not move with the season, so what changes across the year is comfort rather than fit.
Bracknell was designated a new town after the war and built largely in one push, which shows in a stock split fairly evenly between terraces, detached houses and semis across RG12 and RG42. Housing of that age usually sits on a solid ground floor, so the membrane beneath matters more than levelling boards.
From the orders we deliver across Bracknell, this is where each floor tends to go:
Terraced rows in Great Hollands and Hanworth: Terraced houses are the commonest type in Bracknell, but they belong to the new town and stand on solid ground, so the sagging boards a terrace usually brings do not arise. Read the damp-proof membrane instead, then float laminate across the ground floor in one run.
Where both kinds of tenancy sit level: Renting from a social landlord and renting privately are equally common in Bracknell, which is rare, so a fitter here works to one kind of brief and then to the other. Both ask for depth of surface rather than grain, and LVT meets that on either side.
Harmans Water and Crown Wood flats: A fair share of Bracknell homes were built as flats, and in a block your finished floor is the ceiling of the household underneath. Settle the resilient layer first and choose afterwards: engineered wood is thin enough to sit over one without costing the door its clearance.
Kitchens that carry on from the hall: Since the base does not change from room to room here, a kitchen can take the same covering as the hall it opens off, with no step at the doorway. SPC does not swell where water stands at the sink, and it keeps one level right through.
We deliver across Bracknell and Berkshire (RG postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
Orders for hallway flooring head out to Easthampstead, Bullbrook and Priestwood and the RG postcode area, and everywhere in between. Not sure which finish suits your light and layout? Order two or three samples to your Bracknell address, from £1.99, and compare them at home before you commit.
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