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Flooring & Tiles Across Essex

Engineered wood, oak, LVT, laminate, parquet and porcelain tiles, delivered to Basildon, Braintree and Brentwood and 4 more Essex towns, with samples at £1.99.

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Across Essex

Seven towns, and the county reads differently at each end. At the estuary, large old houses cut into separate homes push the flat share past a third and private renting to the heaviest here. Inland, in Chelmsford and Colchester, detached houses reach near a third of the stock and are bought on a long horizon. Terraces and social tenancies fill the towns between.

Terraces lead the built stock in Basildon and Harlow, both with heavy social renting: one specification gets repeated across many homes, and a single room has to be patched without an obvious join. In Harlow and at the estuary, flats reach a quarter and beyond, and there the lease rather than the look sets the terms, asking a minimum impact rating of any hard covering.

town pages in Essex
7
postcode districts we deliver to
27
live in a flat, by town
13.4–36.1%
rent privately, by town
14.2–26.5%

Source: ONS, Census 2021, by local authority: Basildon (E07000066), Braintree (E07000067), Brentwood (E07000068), Chelmsford (E07000070), Colchester (E07000071), Harlow (E07000073), Southend-on-Sea (E06000033) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io

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Town by town across Essex

  • Town

    Basildon

    Private renting in Basildon has risen from 10.2% in 2011 to 14.2%, while social renting remains high at 21.2% and ownership has eased to 63.2%.
    Flooring in Basildon
  • Town

    Braintree

    Braintree covers CM7 and CM77 — Bocking North, Bocking South, Bocking Blackwater, Braintree Central and Beckers Green, Braintree West and Braintree South.
    Flooring in Braintree
  • Town

    Brentwood

    We deliver to CM13, CM14 and CM15 — Brentwood North, South and West, Herongate, Ingrave and West Horndon, Blackmore and Doddinghurst, and the South Weald side.
    Flooring in Brentwood
  • Town

    Chelmsford

    Seventy per cent of Chelmsford households own their home — 70.0% exactly, down from 73.2% in 2011 — and 79.4% of the stock is houses, with 29.6% detached.
    Flooring in Chelmsford
  • Town

    Colchester

    Four districts, CO1 to CO4, define the Colchester service area, reaching Castle, New Town and Christ Church, Highwoods, Prettygate, Shrub End and Marks Tey and Layer.
    Flooring in Colchester
  • Town

    Harlow

    Terraced dwellings account for 45.3% in Harlow, the largest category in the mix, with purpose-built flats at a further 25.0% and 29.3% of households renting from a social landlord; the town sits within Essex.
    Flooring in Harlow
  • Town

    Southend-on-Sea

    Conversions are unusually prominent in Southend-on-Sea: 13.1% of homes are flats formed within existing houses, on top of 20.4% purpose-built, lifting the overall flat share to 36.1%.
    Flooring in Southend-on-Sea

Local fact sheet

Delivery and local detail across Essex

Across Essex we deliver to 27 postcode districts, covering 7 towns with their own page.

At the 2021 census, across the towns we cover in Essex, the share of households in a flat, maisonette or apartment ran from 13.4% to 36.1%, and private renting ran from 14.2% to 26.5%. Each town page gives the figures for its own district.

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

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Questions

Flooring in Essex: FAQs

Do you deliver flooring across Essex?

Yes, from the estuary inland: the SS districts through Southend, Basildon and Pitsea, CM across Chelmsford, Brentwood, Braintree and Harlow, and CO1 to CO4 around Colchester. Villages on those routes – West Horndon, Doddinghurst, Great Notley, Marks Tey and Layer – are served exactly as the towns are.

Which flooring is most popular in Essex?

For a converted flat or a house that changes tenants, a rigid-core LVT is our recommendation: it lifts and relays without harming the deck beneath, and it takes a rated mat under it. In the detached houses, an engineered board is worth costing – it crosses a slab and a timber floor in one run.

Can I order flooring samples in Essex?

Yes, and there is a right place to hold one: the doorway where the original room meets whatever was built on behind it. If the sample looks wrong at that junction it will look wrong laid. Order more than one shade – daylight off the water is not the daylight of an inland estate.

How many samples can I order?

Up to 10 samples per order, and up to 2 of any one product, at £1.99 each, posted to any address in Essex.

Your town

Towns we deliver to in Essex

Each town has its own page with local delivery detail and the floors we recommend there.

BasildonBraintreeBrentwoodChelmsfordColchesterHarlowSouthend-on-Sea

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