A house full of students sees furniture dragged about and a fresh intake every year, which argues for hard-wearing laminate. Away from those streets – Nanpantan, Thorpe Acre, Barrow upon Soar – engineered oak repays the extra outlay in a home someone means to keep.
It brings unmatched warmth and authenticity to period and characterful homes, and ages beautifully year after year. An LE11 student street keeps a different heating year: months of a cold, empty house, then full heat from the first week of term. Boards laid into that swing want days in the room before fixing, and an expansion gap the skirting covers rather than pinches.
Matching solid wood flooring to Loughborough properties
Semis and detached houses make up most of the stock in this part of Charnwood, and ownership sits well above the private rented share. But that rented share is not spread evenly: it concentrates in a handful of LE11 streets given over to student housing. Against that backdrop, solid wood flooring is the natural fit for living rooms and bedrooms in period homes, away from high-moisture areas.
Room by room in Loughborough
Every home is different, but clear patterns run through the Loughborough projects we supply:
Houses let to students in LE11: Much of Loughborough’s private renting is student housing, concentrated in a handful of streets rather than spread evenly across the town. Those floors take furniture dragged instead of lifted and a change of tenants every year, which is a hard-wearing laminate job rather than an oiled solid oak one.
Kitchens: The two Loughborough kitchens are not the same room: one is put right between student tenancies, the other rarely, by the family cooking in it. LVT answers the first because the board does not absorb water when a machine leaks, and porcelain tiles answer the second.
Living rooms in the wider Charnwood wards: Out at Barrow upon Soar, Hathern and Thorpe Acre the housing is semis and detached homes bought to stay in, and the brief has nothing to do with tenancies. A front room there carries engineered oak, or herringbone parquet where the proportions of the room can take a pattern.
Halls and stairs in a student let: In a shared house the hall and the stairs carry every tenant several times a day, and they are what a landlord ends up repairing first. A laminate with a tough surface holds on the treads, provided the nosings are fixed properly so the leading edge cannot lift.
Delivery to Loughborough
We deliver across Loughborough and Leicestershire (LE postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
Serving every corner of Loughborough
Customers order our solid wood flooring from Shelthorpe, Hathern and Quorn and the LE postcode area. Not sure which finish suits your light and layout? Order two or three samples to your Loughborough address, from £1.99, and compare them at home before you commit.
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