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Buckinghamshire · flooring delivered
Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for High Wycombe homes, delivered across Buckinghamshire with samples at £1.99.
Delivered to High Wycombe: HP11 to HP13
Start here · High Wycombe in one figure
15.7%
of households rent privately
ONS, Census 2021, 2021-03-21 · all local facts →High Wycombe has no census row of its own: the ONS counts Buckinghamshire, and the figures further down this page are the county's because those are the honest ones to publish.
They describe a region's houses, not the hall at Sands or Terriers where the oak is actually going.
That part gets measured.
Read the 4 chapters on High Wycombe homes See all 8 local facts
At a glance
Delivery
We deliver across High Wycombe and Buckinghamshire (HP 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 Buckinghamshire delivery covers: Hazlemere, Downley and Sands and the HP postcode area
Also nearby: Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor, Reading
Speak to our team 020 3858 0353Homes in High Wycombe
4 chapters on High Wycombe homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
01/ 04
Ownership across Buckinghamshire runs to seven homes in ten, and in HP11, HP12 and HP13 the stock leans detached and semi-detached.
The terraces are older, built while the town made chairs, and they sit on suspended timber; the newer developments up the valley slopes are laid on screed, sometimes with heating in it.
02/ 04
What works here depends on what is underneath.
Over the suspended timber of the older terraces, levelling is the first job, and Engineered Oak Wide Plank looks right once the base is flat. On the screed of the valley-side homes, check for underfloor heating before choosing a board.
03/ 04
Ground floors in the Disraeli and Bowerdean terraces are timber over open air, so moisture arrives from the void beneath rather than from the room above.
Keep the airbricks clear, let the boards acclimatise where they will be laid, and leave a real perimeter gap.
04/ 04
High Wycombe is HP11, HP12 and HP13 — Abbey, Disraeli, Booker and Cressex, Castlefield and Oakridge, Downley, Marsh and Micklefield, Ridgeway East, and Hazlemere.
Buckinghamshire has been a single unitary authority since 2020. Ownership across the county was 70.0% at the 2021 census, private renting 15.7%. High Wycombe's own history is furniture — it was the centre of English chair-making — and the town still has the workshops and the terraces built around them. Those terraces are suspended timber, and the levelling is the first job. Where the property is one of the newer developments on the valley sides, expect screed and check for underfloor heating before choosing between engineered and solid.
At the 2021 census, 17.2% of households in Buckinghamshire lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 82.3% in a house or bungalow — 17.8% of all households in a terraced house.
Our picks for High Wycombe
A wide oak plank suits the bigger detached and semi-detached homes Buckinghamshire is largely built from, and it holds up on a heated screed where the range is rated.
Shallow enough to go over screed without raising floor heights, and it moves heat through better than a thick board, which suits the newer homes above the town.
Fine value in a rented home at Booker and Cressex, but it telegraphs every hollow in an old timber floor, so the correction work comes first.
Floor by floor
Every floor, room and need we deliver to High Wycombe, 3 of them with a note on High Wycombe homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor typeHigh Wycombe
Terraces built round the chair works: High Wycombe was the centre of English chair-making, and the terraces put up around those workshops are still much of what gets refitted. They stand on suspended timber, so bringing the boards true is the first job; a layered engineered oak then rides the seasonal movement left in the joists. Houses on the valley sides: The newer building climbs the sides of the valley and sits on screed, sometimes with heating run inside it, which makes a quote written for one of the old terraces useless further up the hill. Over a warmed screed engineered wood keeps its width where solid oak will not.
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RoomHigh Wycombe
Kitchens with the units already in: A new floor laid across a fitted kitchen raises everything the machines have to slide back under, and these older houses have little to spare there. Keep the build-up shallow, with bonded LVT rather than boards over a thick underlay, or check the gap under the appliances before ordering.
RoomHigh Wycombe
Sitting rooms in Downley and Hazlemere: Ownership across Buckinghamshire is high and letting comparatively uncommon, so a living room here is usually specified by the person who will go on walking on it. That argues for depth: an engineered oak board with enough timber on top to be sanded more than once.
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We do, right across HP11, HP12 and HP13 – Abbey, Castlefield and Oakridge, Marsh and Micklefield, Downley and Hazlemere. Landlords order here often, so the pallet can go to the let itself or to the address paying for it, whichever is easier.
Buckinghamshire lost owners and gained tenants between censuses: one home in eight was privately let then, roughly one in six now. So in a Micklefield house, settle who will be repairing this floor. Where that is not the person choosing it, LVT that lifts plank by plank.
Sample pieces reach any HP11, HP12 or HP13 address, and where the floor is for a let, have them sent to whoever is paying rather than to the tenant. Take more than one shade, since what a screen shows and what the board does seldom agree.
Local facts
8 figures for High Wycombe from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
17.2%
live in a flat or maisonette
For your floorUsually a concrete slab. The lease may name an acoustic underlay; read it before you order.
Households living in a flat, maisonette or apartment in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
14.4%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
Households living in a purpose-built block of flats in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
64.5%
live in a detached or semi-detached house
For your floorTimber or slab, depending on age. On a slab, check the damp proof membrane first.
Households living in a detached or semi-detached house in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
17.8%
live in a terraced house
For your floorOften suspended timber on the ground floor: level and ventilate it before a floor goes down.
Households living in a terraced house in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
220,328
households in Buckinghamshire
Households in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Who lives here
15.7%
of households rent privately
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.
Households renting privately in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire (E06000060), 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
70.0%
own their home
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire (E06000060), 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
13.0%
rent from a council or housing association
Households renting from a council or housing association in Buckinghamshire, Census 2021. Area: Buckinghamshire (E06000060), 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
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 High Wycombe of the same age and type.
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