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Premium Flooring & Tiles in Kettering

Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for Kettering homes, delivered across Northamptonshire with samples at £1.99.

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to Kettering & Northamptonshire

Three postcode districts answer to Kettering, and much of what they cover is not Kettering at all: Rothwell, Desborough, Burton Latimer, Raunds and Irthlingborough each kept their own centre and their own building history. This page serves a cluster of old towns, so the right floor is not settled by the postal address.

The boot and shoe trade built Kettering in the nineteenth century, and those workers’ terraces sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. Semis are the commonest type across NN14, NN15 and NN16, with detached houses close behind. Expect to level old boards before anything goes down over them.

Over levelled boards engineered oak behaves well, and it can be taken up again when something below needs reaching. Where a Kettering house is let out, and private renting has climbed since the last census, a click-fit board copes better with tenants coming and going.

Our pick for Kettering

Engineered Oak Wide Plank
of households rent privately (14.1% in 2011)
18.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
11.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
NN14 to NN16
households in North Northamptonshire
148,918

Source: ONS, Census 2021, North Northamptonshire (E06000061) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography)

Local conditions

Boards over a ventilated void live with the year: an NN16 floor takes up moisture through a wet autumn and gives it back once the heating comes on. Leave the packs standing where the floor is to go, and keep a real gap at the skirting.

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LVT Vinyl

LVT Vinyl Click-Lock

Being thin underfoot, LVT click-lock is forgiving of a subfloor that is not quite true, which counts for a lot in these older Kettering houses.

from £19.50 / m²Shop range
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Laminate

Laminate Flooring

For a let property the sums favour laminate, and a plank scuffed by one tenant can be swapped out without the whole room coming up.

from £12.95 / m²Shop range
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Room by room

Flooring by room in Kettering

  • Room

    Ground floors in the old trade terraces

    Kettering terraces went up with the boot and shoe trade, long before the estates on the edge of town, and they stand on timber rather than concrete. The work here is levelling boards, not testing a slab, and engineered oak over a true base will not telegraph a joist.
    Engineered Wood flooring in Kettering

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    Rented homes in Kettering Central and Avondale Grange

    Private renting has been climbing steadily across North Northamptonshire, and much of what is let in Kettering is that same old terraced stock. A floating laminate forgives an imperfect floor beneath it and can be renewed between tenants without a fortune going into it.
    Laminate flooring in Kettering

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    Kitchens

    A kitchen in one of the trade terraces shares its joists with the hall, so a heavy tiled floor there means strengthening the structure first. LVT sidesteps that question: thin, stable, and untroubled by water standing at the foot of the sink unit.
    Kitchen flooring in Kettering

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    Bedrooms over the original boards

    Upstairs in the older Kettering houses the floorboards are the ones first laid, and they flex where the nails have worked loose. Screw them down before anything else happens; after that, laminate on a heavy underlay is quiet enough to sleep over.
    Bedroom flooring in Kettering
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Our Northamptonshire delivery covers: Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer and Rothwell and the NN postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Delivery and local detail in Kettering

Kettering is NN14, NN15 and NN16 — Kettering Central and North, Ise, Avondale Grange, Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer, Desborough and Irthlingborough. Like Corby it sits in North Northamptonshire, so the census figures are the same authority-wide numbers: 65.0% ownership, 18.4% private renting, up 4.3 points. The housing, though, is not the same as Corby's at all. Kettering grew on the boot and shoe trade in the nineteenth century, so the terraces here predate Corby's new town by a century and sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. That is the practical difference between the two towns: in Kettering you are levelling boards, in Corby you are checking a membrane.

At the 2021 census, 11.2% of households in North Northamptonshire lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 88.4% in a house or bungalow — 23.3% of all households in a terraced house.

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

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Kettering flooring FAQs

Do you deliver flooring to Kettering?

We deliver to NN14, NN15 and NN16 alike – Kettering Central and North, Ise, Avondale Grange, Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer, and out to Rothwell and Mawsley. Ask for the levelling compound and underlay on the same order, since the base here is made ready first.

Which flooring is best for Kettering homes?

On the suspended timber under a St Michael terrace, choose engineered wood ahead of solid. A solid plank has to be nailed down into nineteenth-century joists, while an engineered board floats over the levelled base and leaves those boards undisturbed.

Can I order flooring samples to my Kettering address?

We send samples to any NN14, NN15 or NN16 address. Put them where they will actually live, down on the floorboards themselves rather than on a table: a base that looks true from standing height shows its dips once a plank bridges them.

Where can I buy flooring near me in Kettering?

You do not need a showroom nearby: we deliver to your door in Kettering. Order samples at £1.99 each, compare colour and finish at home in your own light, then order the floor. Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode; the estimate is on our Delivery & Returns page.

How many samples can I order to Kettering?

Up to 10 samples per order, and up to 2 of any one product, at £1.99 each. Two or three candidates side by side on the floor, in the room’s own light morning and evening, settle a colour faster than any photograph.

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