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Premium Flooring & Tiles in Loughborough

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

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to Loughborough & Leicestershire

Loughborough on this page is LE11 and LE12, one footprint doing two jobs: a town centre you can cross on foot, and a rural rim that runs past Long Whatton and Diseworth to Gotham and Leake, over the county line into Nottinghamshire. Which of the two you are in changes the brief.

Semis and detached houses make up most of the stock in this part of Charnwood, and ownership sits well above the private rented share. But that rented share is not spread evenly: it concentrates in a handful of LE11 streets given over to student housing.

A house full of students sees furniture dragged about and a fresh intake every year, which argues for hard-wearing laminate. Away from those streets – Nanpantan, Thorpe Acre, Barrow upon Soar – engineered oak repays the extra outlay in a home someone means to keep.

Our pick for Loughborough

Engineered Oak Wide Plank
of households rent privately (14.1% in 2011)
17.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
10.7%
postcode districts we deliver to
LE11 to LE12
households in Charnwood
73,785

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Charnwood (E07000130) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography)

Local conditions

An LE11 student street keeps a different heating year: months of a cold, empty house, then full heat from the first week of term. Boards laid into that swing want days in the room before fixing, and an expansion gap the skirting covers rather than pinches.

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LVT Vinyl

LVT Vinyl Click-Lock

Shared kitchens see spills, and LVT click-lock takes them, wipes over and comes up plank by plank when a landlord resets a house between years.

from £19.50 / m²Shop range
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Laminate

Laminate Flooring

Dragged furniture and a yearly change of tenants are what laminate shrugs off, and that is why it holds its place in the student streets.

from £12.95 / m²Shop range
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Room by room

Flooring by room in Loughborough

  • Room

    Houses let to students in LE11

    Much of Loughborough’s private renting is student housing, concentrated in a handful of streets rather than spread evenly across the town. Those floors take furniture dragged instead of lifted and a change of tenants every year, which is a hard-wearing laminate job rather than an oiled solid oak one.
    Solid Wood flooring in Loughborough
  • Room

    Kitchens

    The two Loughborough kitchens are not the same room: one is put right between student tenancies, the other rarely, by the family cooking in it. LVT answers the first because the board does not absorb water when a machine leaks, and porcelain tiles answer the second.
    Kitchen flooring in Loughborough
  • Room

    Living rooms in the wider Charnwood wards

    Out at Barrow upon Soar, Hathern and Thorpe Acre the housing is semis and detached homes bought to stay in, and the brief has nothing to do with tenancies. A front room there carries engineered oak, or herringbone parquet where the proportions of the room can take a pattern.
    Living Room flooring in Loughborough
  • Room

    Halls and stairs in a student let

    In a shared house the hall and the stairs carry every tenant several times a day, and they are what a landlord ends up repairing first. A laminate with a tough surface holds on the treads, provided the nosings are fixed properly so the leading edge cannot lift.
    Hallway flooring in Loughborough

Our Leicestershire delivery covers: Shelthorpe, Hathern and Quorn and the LE postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Delivery and local detail in Loughborough

Loughborough is LE11 and LE12 — Loughborough Ashby, Castle Rock, Dishley, Hathern and Thorpe Acre, Forest Bradgate, and out to Barrow upon Soar. It is part of Charnwood, a district of Leicestershire. Ownership was 69.8% at the 2021 census with private renting at 17.4%, but that figure is worth reading carefully: Loughborough is a university town, and a substantial part of the private rented stock is student housing concentrated in a few streets rather than spread evenly. A house let to students is a different brief from a family home — the floor needs to take furniture being dragged and survive a change of tenants every year, which points at a hard-wearing laminate rather than an oiled oak.

At the 2021 census, 10.7% of households in Charnwood lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 88.8% in a house or bungalow — 17.9% 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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Questions

Loughborough flooring FAQs

Do you deliver flooring to Loughborough?

Yes, across LE11 and LE12, from Storer and Southfields out to Dishley, Forest Bradgate and Barrow upon Soar, and to the village addresses beyond them. If the house changes hands between tenancies, ask for the drop while it stands empty rather than on handover day.

Which flooring is best for Loughborough homes?

Across Loughborough Ashby and Loughborough East a floor is fitted to a date the university calendar sets, which makes curing time the deciding question rather than grain. Choose a click laminate or click LVT and it lays dry; tiling and stick-down want days that date cannot give.

Can I order flooring samples to my Loughborough address?

Yes, samples go to any LE11 or LE12 address, a tenanted house or the landlord's own alike. Order them in spring for a September let, and take enough to settle two or three properties in one sitting rather than deciding a floor during handover week.

Where can I buy flooring near me in Loughborough?

You do not need a showroom nearby: we deliver to your door in Loughborough. 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 Loughborough?

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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