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Bath · Somerset
A bedroom floor is walked on barefoot, heard from below and rarely spilt on, so the decision is warmth, sound and budget rather than water resistance: laminate, engineered oak and rigid vinyl all serve it. In Bath 79% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (29%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.
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The Bath and North East Somerset district counts 79,250 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a bedroom floor is specified here.
Semi-detached houses are 29% of the Bath and North East Somerset stock, and a semi's bedrooms are timber floors over the rooms downstairs, with the small third bedroom over the hall. Laminate is the floor most often laid through all three in Bath, on an underlay chosen for sound; an engineered board goes into the main bedroom where an owner wants oak.
Terraced houses are 27% of the homes in Bath and North East Somerset, and the bedrooms of a terrace in Bath are on a suspended timber floor above the living room. A floating laminate or an engineered board over an underlay with an impact-sound figure keeps footsteps out of the room below; the old boards are screwed down first so nothing creaks under the new floor.
Owner-occupation is 66% in Bath and North East Somerset, and an owner flooring a main bedroom in Bath tends to choose the engineered oak, brushed and oiled, on a warm underlay: it is the floor stepped onto first in the morning. The other bedrooms take the laminate.
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All 39 bedroom floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Bath and North East Somerset (E06000022) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue
We deliver across Bath and Somerset. Most in-stock orders reach Bath within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Bristol, Frome, Wells, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon and the surrounding Mendip and West Wiltshire areas.
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The twelve 8 mm AC4 laminates, from 8mm Laminate Colorado in light oak to 8mm Laminate Alto in dark brown, are the bedroom floors most often ordered; the 125 mm Ascot Brushed UV Oiled Oak Wood Flooring and the 150 mm Cobham Natural Oak Oiled Wood Floor are the engineered choice for a main bedroom; the BML Light Oak SPC Click Flooring with its 0.3 mm wear layer suits a bedroom with an en-suite.
| Product | Format | Wear layer / thickness | Fitting | Underfloor heating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victorian Antique Distressed Oak Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Ascot Lacquered Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 | 14mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Cobham Natural Oak Oiled Wood Floor 14 x 150 | 14mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge American Black Walnut Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge Golden Wheat Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge Hazelnut Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| 8mm Laminate Arkansas | 8mm x 193mm x 1204mm | 8mm thick · AC4 | Click | Compatible |
| 8mm Laminate Inebolu | 8mm x 193mm x 1204mm | 8mm thick · AC4 | Click | Compatible |
Local fact sheet
Bath and North East Somerset in the 2021 census: 79,250 households, 78% houses, 21% flats.
Bathwick, Lambridge and Combe Down sit inside the BA1 and BA2 delivery area, together with Kingsmead, Lansdown, Newbridge and the Bathavon North and Bathavon South wards of Bath and North East Somerset. What stands out in the 2021 accommodation figures is conversion: 5.9% of homes are flats inside former houses, on top of 13.5% purpose-built, so 21.4% of the stock is flatted. An upper floor carved out of an older house rests on joists never designed to be split between two households, and deflection plus sound transfer governs the build-up, which usually means a floating layer over a resilient mat and door heights checked before any underlay is ordered. Ownership stands at 65.3%, a little below the 66.7% recorded in 2011.
More than a quarter of Bath lives in a terrace, and a further one household in eighteen in a flat carved out of a larger house. Much of that stock is Georgian, much of it is listed or in a conservation area, and both of those change what can be done to a floor before anything is chosen.
A Georgian floor is suspended timber over a void ventilated by airbricks that later work has often closed up. Before anything goes over it, the question is whether air still moves under there — Lansdown, Bathwick and the streets off Kingsmead all hold houses where it does not.
Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
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Laminate for most bedrooms, on an underlay chosen for warmth and sound; engineered oak for a main bedroom an owner wants in timber; rigid vinyl where an en-suite opens off it. The bedroom guide linked below goes through the underlay question in detail.
Without the right underlay, yes. The impact-sound improvement of an underlay is tested and stated as a figure; in a flat Approved Document E and the lease set what that figure has to reach. Choose on the datasheet, not the pack.
On the right underlay over a heated or insulated floor, yes; over a cold void with a thin underlay, no floor is. Over underfloor heating the laminates in the range are listed as compatible and the underlay is chosen for it.
In a Georgian townhouse what goes under the floor is more constrained than what goes on it, and the constraint is depth: the finished level cannot rise past a threshold or a stair nosing that is part of the fabric. A thin build-up matters more here than in anything built since.
Yes. We deliver across Bath and Somerset from our UK warehouse, including the BA1 and BA2 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.
Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Bath 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.
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Every range and room for Bath, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
Engineered Woodin Bath33 floors
Solid Woodin Bath15 floors
Parquetin Bath15 floors
LVT Vinylin Bath36 floors
SPC Rigid Vinylin Bath36 floors
Laminatein Bath12 floors6 materials · scroll sideways to see all
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