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South Wales · flooring delivered
Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for Newport homes, delivered across South Wales with samples at £1.99.
Delivered to Newport: 4 postcode districts
Start here · Newport in one figure
16.6%
live in a flat or maisonette
ONS, Census 2021, 2021-03-21 · all local facts →Newport's flats are the part of the town this page's terrace advice does not reach, and they were built as flats: purpose-built blocks outnumber the ones carved out of older houses by better than six to one.
In a Bettws, Lliswerry or Malpas block nothing under the floor resembles a terraced ground floor.
At a glance
Delivery
We deliver across Newport and South Wales (NP 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 South Wales delivery covers: Maindee, Caerleon and Bettws and the NP postcode area
Also nearby: Cardiff, Weston-super-Mare, Barry, Bristol
Speak to our team 020 3858 0353Homes in Newport
4 chapters on Newport homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
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Terraces and semis run neck and neck across Newport, a legacy of the docks and steel years, with detached homes a smaller share.
Over a third of the stock is rented, split between social and private landlords. Under the terraced ground floors is suspended timber that wants levelling before anything goes down.
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Rooms in a Newport terrace are deeper than they are wide, so boards laid lengthways settle them; Engineered Oak Wide Plank earns its place in a home you mean to keep.
In a let, a click floor specified for its wear layer is the more honest spend.
03/ 04
An Alway block floor is concrete cast between flats, with no outside air moving beneath it, so the moisture a plank meets rises from inside the flat: showers, cooking, washing dried on an airer, all of it peaking in the shut-window months.
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Newport covers NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 — Allt-yr-yn, Alway, Beechwood, Bettws, Gaer, Graig, Caerleon, and Bishton and Langstone.
It is a Welsh unitary authority. Ownership was 62.9% at the 2021 census with social renting at 19.5% and private renting 16.7% — over a third of homes rented, which is high for Wales. Newport was a docks and steel town and the terraced housing reflects that: suspended timber ground floors, narrow rooms, and a base that will need levelling. Caerleon is older still. Where the property is a let, specify for the joint and the wear layer; where it is your own, the levelling is worth doing properly once.
At the 2021 census, 16.6% of households in Newport lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 83.2% in a house or bungalow — 31.1% of all households in a terraced house.
Our picks for Newport
Caerleon and the terraced streets sit on timber ground floors that shift with the seasons, and engineered board handles that movement more calmly than solid oak.
With so many Newport homes let, a click LVT specified for its joint and wear layer stands up to tenancy changes and wipes clean between them.
In a Newport terrace, laminate can go down fast and cheaply, but the old timber beneath will show every dip through it, so level the base before you lay.
Floor by floor
Every floor, room and need we deliver to Newport, 3 of them with a note on Newport homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor typeNewport
Long, narrow terraced rooms: The terraces that came with Newport docks and steel give you rooms far longer than they are wide, and a broad plank in a room that shape leaves a mean strip against the far wall. Set engineered wood out from the middle so both cuts match. Ground floors in Caerleon: Caerleon is older again than the rest of Newport, and the older the house the more its ground floor has moved since it was laid. Level it once and thoroughly; after that engineered oak can stay where it is for as long as the room lasts.
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Floor typeNewport
Homes let across NP19 and NP20: Rented homes make up a larger slice of Newport than of most Welsh towns, between social landlords and private ones. In a let it is the joint and the wear layer that decide how the floor hands back, not the grain printed on it, and that argues for LVT.
Floor typeRoomNewport
Hallways: In a Newport terrace the hall is a corridor the whole house passes through, from the front door to the kitchen at the back. SPC stands up to that traffic without the swelling a timber board risks where wet coats drip against the wall.
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Pattern or needGuides
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How to chooseEngineered Wood Wear Layer: 3 mm, 4 mm or 6 mmRead guide 
How to chooseWhat Is SPC / Rigid Core Vinyl?Read guide 
How to chooseLaminate AC Ratings ExplainedRead guide 
Buying guideBest Flooring for Underfloor Heating: What Works and What to AvoidRead guide Bestsellers
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We deliver across NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20: Gaer, Malpas, Lliswerry, Alway, Beechwood, and out through Caerleon to Bishton and Langstone. Take the whole job on one delivery rather than room by room; a long room eats more board than its floor area suggests.
Engineered oak for a Newport house — judge it on the thickness of the oak layer, the part you can refresh later. In a purpose-built flat the answer is click LVT or SPC, whose core is not timber and takes indoor damp in its stride.
Samples reach any NP10, NP18, NP19 or NP20 address, yes. Lay one down the length of the room and walk it end to end: a plank judged across a narrow terrace room reads quite differently once it runs the long way in daylight.
You do not need a showroom nearby: we deliver to your door in Newport. 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.
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.
Local facts
8 figures for Newport from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
16.6%
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 Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
13.5%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
Households living in a purpose-built block of flats in Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
52.1%
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 Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
31.1%
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 Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
66,054
households in Newport
Households in Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Who lives here
16.7%
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 Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport (W06000022), 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
62.9%
own their home
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport (W06000022), 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
19.5%
rent from a council or housing association
Households renting from a council or housing association in Newport, Census 2021. Area: Newport (W06000022), 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.
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