Skip to main content
Samples available UK-wide delivery

Your Basket

0

Your basket is empty

Browse our editorial collections and find your perfect floor.

Browse Collections
Subtotal £0.00
Shipping & discounts calculated at checkout
SSL encrypted — safe and secure

Blackpool · Lancashire

Bathroom Flooring in Blackpool

A bathroom floor lives with standing water and steam, and the two floors in the range for it are porcelain tile and rigid vinyl listed as waterproof; the walls of a shower can take the Berry Alloc panels. In Blackpool 79% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (39%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Bathroom in Blackpool

Bathroom flooring in Blackpool: what the housing says

The Blackpool district counts 64,791 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a bathroom floor is specified here.

Semi-detached houses are 39% of the Blackpool stock, and the semi's bathroom is upstairs on a timber floor, often over the kitchen. The floor over joists is checked for level and stiffness before a tile goes on it, because a tile over a floor that flexes cracks at the grout; the rigid vinyl floats over it and is the more forgiving of the two on timber.

Terraced houses are 30% of the homes in Blackpool, and a terraced bathroom in Blackpool is often a later addition, on the ground floor behind the kitchen or in a first-floor extension over it. A timber first floor under a bathroom is the case for the rigid vinyl, which floats and is light; a ground-floor slab takes either floor once the reading says it is dry.

Private renting is 32% of households in Blackpool, and a rented bathroom in Blackpool is refitted more often than any other room. The rigid vinyl goes in without a wet trade and comes out the same way; the wall panels go up over existing tiles. For a let that turns over, that is the specification.

of households rent privately (26.1% in 2011)
31.8%
live in a flat or maisonette
21.3%
postcode districts we deliver to
FY1 to FY4
bathroom floors in our range
52

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Blackpool (E06000009) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Delivery to Blackpool

We deliver across Blackpool and the wider Fylde Coast. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Cleveleys, Thornton, Fleetwood, Lytham St Annes, Poulton-le-Fylde, Garstang and surrounding Fylde and Wyre.

Delivery details

Local conditions

A property that stands empty and unheated between lettings is a difficult place for a wooden floor. Boards take up moisture from the air around them and should sit in the room, at its normal temperature, before they are fitted — a step often skipped here.

All flooring in Blackpool

Compare the bathroom range

In porcelain, the 600 x 1200 mm tiles: Luna Blanca Matt Porcelain Floor Tile, Night Lux Matt Porcelain Floor Tile and the polished Taj Mahal Pearl; the matt faces are the usual bathroom choice. In rigid vinyl, the click planks such as BML Light Oak SPC Click Flooring and the BML Cement Light SPC Click Floor Tile, listed as waterproof. For the walls of a shower, the five Berry Alloc Wall & Water Shower Panels, 600 x 2400 mm, listed as waterproof.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Grey Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone American White Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Antique Smoked Oak SPC Floor6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Misty Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Ash SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
Berry Alloc Wall & Water Shower Panel White Brooklyn Concrete1.44 Square Metres10.2mmInterlocking System · listed as waterproof
Luna Blanca Polished Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 120010mmCompatible

Room by room

Bathroom in Blackpool, room by room

  • Room

    Coastal Bathrooms

    Porcelain tiles are the natural choice for Blackpool bathrooms. For en-suites in apartments, LVT in stone designs offers similar performance with warmer feel underfoot.
    Bathroom flooring in Blackpool

Our Lancashire delivery covers: Blackpool town centre, North Shore, South Shore, Bispham, Stanley Park, Marton, Cleveleys, Thornton, Fleetwood, Anchorsholme, Layton, Great Marton, Mereside, Squires Gate, Norbreck, Anchorsholme, Carleton, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lytham St Annes, Knott End, Pilling, Garstang and surrounding Fylde and Wyre

See it on the map

Local fact sheet

Blackpool's homes, by the numbers

Blackpool in the 2021 census: 64,791 households, 79% houses, 21% flats.

Private renting stands at 31.8% in Blackpool, up from 26.1% a decade earlier, while ownership has slipped to 57.5%. FY1, FY2, FY3 and FY4 reach Bispham, Layton, Marton, Bloomfield, Claremont and Hawes Side. Detached properties are scarce at 9.6%, and 5.6% of homes are flats formed inside existing houses — a high share pointing to older buildings subdivided over time. Both facts push one way: rapid tenancy turnover favours hard-wearing coverings that can be replaced in sections, and converted upper floors need the joist build-up and sound insulation assessed before anything rigid is fixed down. Terraced stock at 29.5% often hides patched, uneven bases that call for levelling compound first.

Private renting reaches close to a third of all Blackpool households, and the town has an unusually large number of flats converted out of bigger buildings. Bloomfield, Brunswick and Claremont carry most of that, and much of it is let, furnished, and turned over more often than family housing is.

Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Blackpool

  • The edges, not the middle The bath, the tray, the door threshold: sealed as the fitting instructions describe. That is where water gets under a floor.
  • Matt or polished A polished tile is a different floor when wet. The HSE's pendulum grades tell you how different; a matt face is the usual bathroom choice.
  • Timber floor under a tile A first-floor bathroom on joists flexes. A tile over it needs a stiff base or it cracks at the grout; the vinyl floats over it.
  • First-floor bathroom on joists The semi's bathroom is upstairs on a timber floor that flexes. A tile needs a stiffened base; the vinyl floats, and the panels avoid grout.
  • The bathroom over the kitchen In a terrace the bathroom is often a later addition over the kitchen, on joists that were not sized for a tiled floor. The vinyl floats over them; a tile wants a stiffened base first.

Reviews

Trusted by homeowners across the UK

★★★★★4.6/5Trustpilot
★★★★★4.9/5Google

Questions

Bathroom flooring in Blackpool: questions, answered

Tile or vinyl for a bathroom in Blackpool?

Porcelain is permanent, cool and hard, and suits a wet room with a fall; rigid vinyl listed as waterproof is warmer, quieter, floats over a timber first floor and can be lifted. Both need the edges sealed properly, which is where a bathroom floor fails if it fails.

Are the wall panels a replacement for tiles?

In a shower enclosure, yes: a panel runs floor to ceiling in one piece with a joint every 600 mm instead of a grout line every 300, and it is listed as waterproof by the manufacturer. The panel guide explains the datasheet and the fitting.

Can I lay a bathroom floor over underfloor heating?

The tiles and the rigid vinyl are listed for it. The screed is dry on a reading and the system commissioned before the floor goes down; the surface limit in a bathroom under EN 1264 is 33 °C.

What flooring works best for Blackpool holiday lets?

For a holiday let, choose something indifferent to the humidity around it and fit the same range throughout so a repair between bookings is quick. Allow the boards their settling time before fitting, even when the changeover is tight — that hour saved is the one that costs later.

Do you deliver bathroom flooring to Blackpool?

Yes. We deliver across Blackpool and Lancashire from our UK warehouse, including the FY1, FY2, FY3 and FY4 postcode districts. Delivery cost and timing depend on the delivery postcode and are shown at checkout, and samples come by post first so the floor can be seen in the room before the full order.

Can I see a bathroom sample before ordering in Blackpool?

Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Blackpool address. Two or three side by side on the floor, in the room's own light morning and evening, settle the colour faster than any photograph.

The same range nearby

Bathroom flooring nearby

Distances are straight-line miles from Blackpool. Each link opens the bathroom page for that town.

PrestonLancasterBlackburnWiganLiverpoolBurnleyManchesterBlackpool

United KingdomLancashireBlackpoolBathroom

151 towns and cities, 24 county guides, one map.

Order samples£1.99 each · up to 10 per order

Order
Newsletter

New ranges and offers. Hear it first.

Unsubscribe anytime