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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.
Delivered to Loughborough: LE11 to LE12
Start here · Loughborough in one figure
17.4%
of households rent privately
ONS, Census 2021, 2021-03-21 · all local facts →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.
Read the 4 chapters on Loughborough homes See all 8 local facts
At a glance
Delivery
We deliver across Loughborough and Leicestershire (LE 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 Leicestershire delivery covers: Shelthorpe, Hathern and Quorn and the LE postcode area
Also nearby: Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Nuneaton
Speak to our team 020 3858 0353Homes in Loughborough
4 chapters on Loughborough homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
01/ 04
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.
02/ 04
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.
03/ 04
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.
04/ 04
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.
Our picks for Loughborough
Most Charnwood households own their home and expect a floor to last, which is where engineered oak earns its money; an oiled finish suits a student let poorly.
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.
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.
Floor by floor
Every floor, room and need we deliver to Loughborough, 4 of them with a note on Loughborough homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor type
Floor typeLoughborough
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.
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Floor typeRoomLoughborough
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.
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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.
RoomLoughborough
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Local facts
8 figures for Loughborough from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
10.7%
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 Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
8.6%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
Households living in a purpose-built block of flats in Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
70.9%
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 Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
17.9%
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 Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
73,785
households in Charnwood
Households in Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Who lives here
17.4%
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 Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood (E07000130), 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
69.8%
own their home
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood (E07000130), 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
11.7%
rent from a council or housing association
Households renting from a council or housing association in Charnwood, Census 2021. Area: Charnwood (E07000130), 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 Loughborough of the same age and type.
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