Rooms in a Newport terrace are deeper than they are wide, so boards laid lengthways settle them; Engineered Oak Wide Plank earns its place in a home you mean to keep. In a let, a click floor specified for its wear layer is the more honest spend.
It turns a plain floor into a design feature, flatters both period and contemporary interiors, and leads the eye down hallways and through open-plan spaces. An Alway block floor is concrete cast between flats, with no outside air moving beneath it, so the moisture a plank meets rises from inside the flat: showers, cooking, washing dried on an airer, all of it peaking in the shut-window months.
Newport properties and the right herringbone floor
Terraces and semis run neck and neck across Newport, a legacy of the docks and steel years, with detached homes a smaller share. Over a third of the stock is rented, split between social and private landlords. Under the terraced ground floors is suspended timber that wants levelling before anything goes down. Within that mix, herringbone flooring earns its place above all in hallways, living rooms, kitchens and open-plan spaces.
Newport homes, room by room
From the orders we deliver across Newport, this is where each floor tends to go:
Long, narrow terraced rooms: The terraces that came with Newport docks and steel give you rooms far longer than they are wide, and a broad plank in a room that shape leaves a mean strip against the far wall. Set engineered wood out from the middle so both cuts match.
Ground floors in Caerleon: Caerleon is older again than the rest of Newport, and the older the house the more its ground floor has moved since it was laid. Level it once and thoroughly; after that engineered oak can stay where it is for as long as the room lasts.
Homes let across NP19 and NP20: Rented homes make up a larger slice of Newport than of most Welsh towns, between social landlords and private ones. In a let it is the joint and the wear layer that decide how the floor hands back, not the grain printed on it, and that argues for LVT.
Hallways: In a Newport terrace the hall is a corridor the whole house passes through, from the front door to the kitchen at the back. SPC stands up to that traffic without the swelling a timber board risks where wet coats drip against the wall.
Delivery to Newport
We deliver across Newport and South Wales (NP postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
Serving every corner of Newport
Orders for herringbone flooring head out to Maindee, Caerleon and Bettws and the NP postcode area, and everywhere in between. The safest first step is a sample order to your Newport home: a few boards on your own floor, in your own light, tell you more than any photo.
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