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Newport · South Wales

Chevron Flooring in Newport

Chevron cuts each block at an angle so the boards meet in a continuous point, an arrow rather than a zig-zag; in this range it is engineered oak, 14 mm thick, glued down. In Newport 83% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (31%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Chevron in Newport

Chevron flooring in Newport: what the housing says

The Newport district counts 66,054 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a chevron floor is specified here.

Semi-detached houses are 31% of the homes in Newport, and the semi's living room, opened up front to back, is the room a chevron was drawn for: the point of the arrow runs from the bay to the garden. The two bases along that run, timber and concrete, are levelled to one another before the first block.

Terraced houses are 31% of the Newport stock, and in a terrace the chevron goes into the room with the length to carry it, the through-lounge or a long hallway, rather than a square front room. The arrow needs a run. The base is a screwed-down ply overlay on the old boards, and the blocks are glued.

of households rent privately (14.0% in 2011)
16.7%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.6%
postcode districts we deliver to
4
chevron floors in our range
2

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Newport (W06000022) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Compare the chevron range

The Knightsbridge Chevron comes in two faces, Knightsbridge Chevron Natural Brushed Oak and Knightsbridge Chevron Raw Oak, both 14 x 90 x 510 mm, tongue and groove, engineered, with a 3 mm wear layer and listed for underfloor heating. For the same pattern in a kitchen, the herringbone rigid-vinyl range is the click alternative; there is no chevron in vinyl in the range.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
Knightsbridge Chevron Natural Brushed Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 51014mm x 90mm x 510mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Knightsbridge Chevron Raw Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 51014mm x 90mm x 510mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible

Local fact sheet

Newport's homes, by the numbers

Newport in the 2021 census: 66,054 households, 83% houses, 17% flats.

Newport covers NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 — Allt-yr-yn, Alway, Beechwood, Bettws, Gaer, Graig, Caerleon, and Bishton and Langstone. It is a Welsh unitary authority. Ownership was 62.9% at the 2021 census with social renting at 19.5% and private renting 16.7% — over a third of homes rented, which is high for Wales. Newport was a docks and steel town and the terraced housing reflects that: suspended timber ground floors, narrow rooms, and a base that will need levelling. Caerleon is older still. Where the property is a let, specify for the joint and the wear layer; where it is your own, the levelling is worth doing properly once.

Newport's flats are the part of the town this page's terrace advice does not reach, and they were built as flats: purpose-built blocks outnumber the ones carved out of older houses by better than six to one. In a Bettws, Lliswerry or Malpas block nothing under the floor resembles a terraced ground floor.

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.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Newport

  • The axis of the room A chevron points. Decide which way before the drawing, because the drawing fixes the border and the border fixes the quantity.
  • Flat enough for glue Mitred blocks show every hollow. A straightedge over the base, then a levelling compound if it fails.
  • 15 to 20 percent over The pattern allowance on the manufacturers' guidance, ordered in one batch.
  • Point it through the house A chevron running front to back through a knocked-through semi wants the axis decided for the whole run, and both bases at one level before the adhesive.
  • Ply over the boards A glued chevron goes onto a screwed-down ply overlay, not onto old boards.

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Questions

Chevron flooring in Newport: questions, answered

Herringbone or chevron for a Newport home?

Herringbone is the traditional zig-zag and forgives a squarer room; chevron is the continuous arrow and wants a room with length. Chevron blocks are mitred, so the setting-out is less forgiving and the border matters more. The comparison guide takes it further.

Is the chevron range suitable for underfloor heating?

Both Knightsbridge Chevron boards are engineered, 14 mm thick, and listed for underfloor heating, on a screed that is dry and a system that has been commissioned first.

Can I have chevron in a kitchen?

The oak chevron is for dry rooms. For a patterned floor in a kitchen the rigid-vinyl herringbone, listed as waterproof, is the range to look at; there is no vinyl chevron in the range.

Can I order flooring samples to my Newport address?

Samples reach any NP10, NP18, NP19 or NP20 address, yes. Lay one down the length of the room and walk it end to end: a plank judged across a narrow terrace room reads quite differently once it runs the long way in daylight.

Do you deliver chevron flooring to Newport?

Yes. We deliver across Newport and South Wales from our UK warehouse, including the NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 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 chevron sample before ordering in Newport?

Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Newport 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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