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Premium Flooring in Eastleigh
Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for Eastleigh homes, delivered across Hampshire with samples at £1.99.
Eastleigh 71.0%In 2011 73.5%Each square is 1% of homes
Not every Eastleigh household owns all of the home it lives in: shared ownership means a share bought and rent paid on the rest.
That puts some SO50 and SO53 houses on a lease, so at Fair Oak or Eastleigh South a floor covering can be somebody else's business even with no flat above.
We deliver across Eastleigh and Hampshire (SO postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
Our Hampshire delivery covers: Chandlers Ford, Bishopstoke and Fair Oak and the SO postcode area
4 chapters on Eastleigh homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
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The homes of Eastleigh
Detached houses lead in Eastleigh, semis and terraces behind them, and the split is geographic as much as anything: the older streets that grew up with the railway sit on suspended timber, while Chandler’s Ford came later and is largely solid.
Two subfloors, half a mile apart, across SO50 and SO53.
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Floors that suit Eastleigh
Ownership runs high here and private renting has barely shifted in a decade, so floors get lived on for years; that argues for Engineered Oak Wide Plank, whose wear layer is thick enough to sand rather than swap.
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Local conditions in Eastleigh
A room heated through winter dries the boards in it, and summer puts the moisture back.
Cut the expansion gap in a Bishopstoke floor for every one of those cycles.
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16.2%live in a flat or maisonette
21.3%live in a terraced house
Eastleigh in detail
Eastleigh covers SO50 and SO53 — Eastleigh Central, North and South, Bishopstoke, Chandler's Ford, Colden Common and Twyford, and Ampfield and Braishfield.
It is a district of Hampshire. Ownership was 71.0% at the 2021 census with private renting at just 13.9%, up only 1.6 points in a decade — one of the smallest shifts we see. Eastleigh, like Darlington, grew as a railway town, and the terraces built for the works are suspended timber; Chandler's Ford is largely later and solid. Two different jobs, half a mile apart. The one thing both share is that a floor bought in a high-ownership market gets lived on for a long time, so the wear layer is where the money goes.
At the 2021 census, 16.2% of households in Eastleigh lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 83.1% in a house or bungalow — 21.3% of all households in a terraced house.
Wide engineered planks suit the larger detached rooms around Chandler’s Ford and Bishopstoke, and the layered board sits steadily on the solid floors found there.
In the Eastleigh Central and North streets, click-lock LVT sits thin over levelled timber without raising door bottoms, and it wipes clean in daily use.
Every floor, room and need we deliver to Eastleigh, 4 of them with a note on Eastleigh homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor types
Floor type
Eastleigh
Engineered Wood
Terraces built for the railway works: Eastleigh grew as a railway town and the terraces put up for the works sit on suspended timber, which keeps moving whatever goes over it. That favours engineered wood, made up in layers so it stays put where a solid board would cup, once the joists have been checked and the boards screwed down.
Floors bought to stay: Private renting in Eastleigh moved less than almost anywhere we measure and ownership is high, so the floor gets picked by whoever will still be standing on it. That justifies solid oak where the base allows it, and a deep-layered engineered oak where it does not.
Ground floors at Chandler’s Ford: Chandler’s Ford is later building and largely solid underfoot, so a job a few streets from the railway terraces is a different one entirely. On a solid base the finished height is predictable and LVT can be bonded straight down, which suits a household that wants no movement underfoot at all.
Kitchens: In a house held for the long term the kitchen is expected to look the same long after the chairs and boots have worked on it. The hardest surface here is porcelain tiles, which take heat from below without complaint, while SPC is the warmer answer when a whole ground floor goes down in one material.
Delivery covers SO50 and SO53 — Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath, Hiltingbury and West End North as well as Eastleigh Central. The borough is wider than the town name suggests, so give the ward with the postcode when you order.
Which flooring is best for Eastleigh homes?
Work outward from the back door. A house at Bishopstoke or Hiltingbury takes garden traffic straight into the hall, so SPC or porcelain belongs there; the front rooms, which see none of that, are where an engineered oak board is worth its price.
Can I order flooring samples to my Eastleigh address?
Yes. Order to an Eastleigh North or Nursling and Rownhams address, then put the piece down on the floor and look at it from standing height rather than holding it up: a board at arm's length reads a shade lighter than the same board underfoot.
Local facts
Local facts: Eastleigh
8 figures for Eastleigh from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
16.2%
live in a flat or maisonette
For your floorUsually a concrete slab. The lease may name an acoustic underlay; read it before you order.
For your floorWhere a home is let, the landlord chooses the floor and the tenant lives on it, so it has to take wear and be quick to put right between tenancies.
Source
Households renting privately in Eastleigh, Census 2021. Area: Eastleigh (E07000086), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Who lives here
71.0%
own their home
Eastleigh71.0%
In 201173.5%
Source
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Eastleigh, Census 2021. Area: Eastleigh (E07000086), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Who lives here
13.1%
rent from a council or housing association
Eastleigh13.1%
In 201112.3%
Source
Households renting from a council or housing association in Eastleigh, Census 2021. Area: Eastleigh (E07000086), local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21. The 2011 figure: ONS, Census area changes, the same local authority in the 2011 census.
Local guides
Local guides near Eastleigh
For these towns we have written a local guide from the census and other official records there: what the homes are built on and what that asks of each floor. Much of it applies to homes in Eastleigh of the same age and type.
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