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Straight Planks

Straight planks provide a clean, timeless look with the natural beauty of solid timber. Perfect for creating warm, elegant spaces, they offer durability, long-term stability and a premium feel throughout the home.

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Straight Planks · The look

Straight Planks are 18 mm solid European oak boards in three widths and random lengths. Eleven Windsor boards, all Rustic grade, in brushed and oiled, smooth and lacquered, hand scraped, and brushed and matt lacquered surfaces.

One piece of oak, top to bottom
A solid board is oak all the way through, so it can be sanded and refinished for as long as the tongue holds. That is the case for solid over engineered, and it comes with a condition: solid oak moves more with humidity, so the room and the subfloor have to be right before it goes down.
Width sets the character
The 90 mm Windsor Narrow reads as a traditional strip floor; 125 mm is the classic cottage width; 150 mm reads as a plank floor. All three are random length, which is what stops a solid floor from looking like a grid.
Not for underfloor heating
Every board in this range is listed as not compatible with underfloor heating. If the room has it, or will, the engineered oak ranges are the right place to look.
Can solid oak planks go over underfloor heating?
Not these. All eleven Windsor boards are listed as not compatible with underfloor heating. Solid oak at this thickness moves too much with heat and humidity to be laid over a heated screed; the engineered oak boards, with their cross-layered core, are the ones listed as compatible.
What does random length mean?
Each pack holds boards of varying length rather than one fixed size. Laid with staggered joints, the floor reads as a natural, irregular surface instead of a repeating grid, and there is less waste at the ends of rows.
Which surface is right for a hallway?
The brushed, UV oiled boards. Brushing hides fine scratches in the grain and oil can be topped up where the traffic is. The smooth lacquered boards are the cleaner look for a living room or a bedroom, and the hand scraped boards suit a period house where a flat, uniform surface would look wrong.
Which rooms suit solid wood?
Living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and hallways. Avoid bathrooms and be cautious in kitchens: humidity swings are solid timber’s main enemy.
Do you deliver UK-wide and can I get a sample first?
Yes, kerbside pallet delivery nationwide, and samples from £1.99 so you can check colour and grain at home first.

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Choosing solid oak planks

A solid plank is the simplest floor to understand and the one that asks the most of the building. Every Windsor board is 18 mm of European oak with a tongue and groove, micro-bevelled edges and a 20 year manufacturer's warranty; all are Rustic grade, so knots, sap and colour variation are part of the surface. Because the board is oak throughout, it can be sanded and refinished repeatedly over its life, which is the argument for solid over engineered. The counter-argument is movement: solid oak takes on and gives up moisture with the seasons more than an engineered board does, and the subfloor, the room and the acclimatisation period have to allow for it.

The range is organised by width and surface. Three widths: 90 mm Narrow, 125 mm and 150 mm, all in random lengths. Four surfaces: brushed and UV oiled on the Windsor Narrow Brushed and the Windsor Brushed boards; smooth and UV lacquered on the Windsor Smooth boards; hand scraped and UV lacquered on the Coffee, Golden and Golden Brown boards; brushed and matt lacquered on the Smoked and Dark boards. The oiled surfaces can be re-oiled locally; the lacquered ones are refinished as a whole floor.

Colour follows the surface. The natural oak boards are the smooth, brushed and narrow ones; the hand scraped boards carry coffee, golden and golden brown tones; and the smoked and dark boards are the brushed, matt lacquered pair at 150 mm. If the room is a hallway or a kitchen, a brushed surface hides the scratches that grit leaves; if it is a period house with uneven walls, the hand scraped boards sit more naturally than a flat surface.

None of the eleven boards is listed as compatible with underfloor heating, and that rules the range out of rooms that have it. Before ordering any solid oak, the subfloor moisture and the room conditions are the two checks that decide whether the floor will stay flat; the standards for both are quoted below.

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