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Bath · Somerset
Engineered oak is a real oak wear layer of 3 to 6 mm bonded to a cross-laminated core, so the board keeps the surface of solid timber and moves far less with the seasons. 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.
Engineered Wood in Bath
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 engineered wood floor is specified here.
Semi-detached houses are the largest group in Bath, 29% of the Bath and North East Somerset stock, and the typical semi has two ground floors in one: a suspended timber front room and a solid concrete kitchen or later extension. Engineered oak can run through both, floated on underlay over the timber and glued to the slab, so a knocked-through room reads as one floor. The join between the two bases is where the level is set, and it is worth checking before the boards are ordered.
Terraced houses make up 27% of the homes in the Bath and North East Somerset district, and in Bath that usually means a suspended timber ground floor: boards over joists, a void underneath, and often a slope from front to back. An engineered board goes over that once the old boards are screwed down and levelled with a ply overlay; the cross-laminated core tolerates the small movement a suspended floor still makes, where a solid board would open at the joints. Order the acclimatisation time into the plan, not out of it.
Owner-occupation is 66% in Bath and North East Somerset, higher than in most districts, and an owner-occupier buys a floor to keep. That is the case for the thicker wear layers in the range: 4 mm on the 15 mm Victorian boards and 6 mm on the 20 mm ones can be sanded and refinished more than once, so a floor laid in Bath this year is still the same floor after the next redecoration and the one after that.
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All 33 engineered wood 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 range runs from the 125 mm Ascot boards, which suit a hallway or a bedroom in a terraced house, through the 150 mm Cobham range to the 190 mm Weybridge Light Grey and the 220 mm Victorian Antique Natural Oak for larger rooms. Every board in the range is listed as compatible with underfloor heating and carries a wear layer of 3 mm or more; the 15 and 20 mm Victorian boards carry 4 and 6 mm.
| 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 |
| Victorian Antique White Oak Flooring 15 x 220 x 2200 | 15mm x 220mm x 2200mm | 4mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Ascot Lacquered Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 | 14mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Cobham Natural Oak UV Lacquered Wood Floor 14 x 150 | 14mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Cobham Walnut Stained Oak Wood Floor 14 x 150 | 14mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge Light Grey Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge White Oiled Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Victorian Antique Smoky Oak Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 | 20mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 6mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
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Our Somerset delivery covers: Bath city centre, Bathwick, Widcombe, Lansdown, Bear Flat, Royal Crescent, Larkhall, Combe Down, Weston, Twerton, Oldfield Park, Bathford, Batheaston, Saltford, Keynsham, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Frome, Wells, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Westbury and surrounding Somerset and West Wiltshire
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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.
Bath’s Georgian heritage is among the most architecturally significant in Europe, from the iconic Royal Crescent and the Circus to honey-coloured Bath stone townhouses lining Great Pulteney Street. Period interiors with high ceilings, original cornicing and proportions designed for grand entertaining demand flooring that respects centuries of craftsmanship.
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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For most of the housing in Bath it is the wood floor that fits: it goes over a suspended timber floor once that is levelled, over a slab once that is dry, and over underfloor heating, and it can be sanded back when the wear layer is 3 mm or more. Where it does not belong is a bathroom or a utility room that gets wet.
A 125 or 150 mm board suits the room sizes of the terraces and semis, and a brushed, oiled finish forgives the grit an older house carries in. Wider boards suit the larger detached rooms and knocked-through spaces.
Every engineered board in the range is listed as compatible with underfloor heating. The conditions are the manufacturer's: a commissioned system, a dry screed and a surface temperature within the limit the fitting instructions state.
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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