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Engineered Oak Wide Plank, Herringbone Parquet Oak and Porcelain Marble-Effect Tiles: the floors we recommend for St Albans homes, delivered across Hertfordshire with samples at £1.99.
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St Albans has the highest ownership of any town we cover, at seven households in ten, and the lowest private renting of its neighbours, at one in six. Almost everyone specifying a floor here will be standing on it in five years, and it shows in what people ask for.
St Albans combines Roman and medieval heritage in the Cathedral and Verulam areas with elegant Victorian and Edwardian villas around Fishpool Street and Marshalswick, plus substantial family homes in Harpenden, Wheathampstead and the surrounding Hertfordshire villages. The city’s exceptional schools and 18-minute trains to St Pancras drive premium property values.
Engineered oak in wide planks (190mm+) and warm natural tones dominates St Albans renovations. Herringbone parquet is the standout hallway upgrade in the city’s Victorian and Edwardian properties, while porcelain tiles in marble effects feature in the kitchen-diners that are now standard in St Albans family homes.
Our pick for St Albans
Engineered Oak Wide PlankSource: ONS, Census 2021, St Albans (E07000240) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography)
We deliver across St Albans and Hertfordshire. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Harpenden, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Hitchin and surrounding Hertfordshire villages.
Delivery detailsThe centre holds conservation-area stock with suspended timber and the ventilation questions that come with it; Marshalswick, Cunningham and the newer edges are twentieth-century and mostly solid at ground level. Two different preparations, often within the same AL1 postcode.
Subfloor RequirementsOur picks for St Albans
Premium 190mm planks for St Albans Victorian and Edwardian family homes.
The signature hallway upgrade for Marshalswick and Fishpool Street properties.
Premium kitchen-diner flooring for substantial Harpenden and St Albans homes.
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Our Hertfordshire delivery covers: St Albans city centre, Marshalswick, Townsend, Verulam, Fishpool Street, Bernards Heath, Highfield, Cottonmill, Park Street, Napsbury Park, Harpenden, Wheathampstead, Sandridge, London Colney, Bricket Wood, Redbourn, Markyate, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Hertford, Hitchin and surrounding Hertfordshire
See it on the mapLocal fact sheet
Hertfordshire sets the administrative frame, and AL1 and AL3 reach Batchwood, Bernards Heath, Sopwell, St Peters and Verulam. Ownership stands at 70.9% against 12.2% social renting, with detached houses at 26.3% and semi-detached at 30.2%. Households that stay put buy for the long run, which makes engineered board or solid timber worth the extra outlay, particularly on ground floors where one continuous run reads better than a change of material at every doorway. Timber needs several days acclimatising in the room it will occupy before fitting, and any underfloor heating should be commissioned and cycled down first so the boards settle at working temperature rather than shrinking away from each other in the first cold month.
At the 2021 census, 23.0% of households in St Albans lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 76.5% in a house or bungalow — 20.0% of all households in a terraced house.
Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
Guides
How to chooseEngineered Wood Wear Layer: 3 mm, 4 mm or 6 mmRead guide 
Fitting guideHerringbone Installation GuideRead guide Comparison guideLVT vs Porcelain Tiles: Kitchens & Bathrooms ComparedRead guide 
Buying guideBest Flooring for Underfloor Heating: What Works and What to AvoidRead guide 
Technical guideSubfloor RequirementsRead guide Bestsellers
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Yes, across AL1 and AL3 — Batchwood, Bernards Heath, Clarence, Cunningham, Hill End, Marshalswick West — and out to Redbourn and the Harpenden wards.
In a Victorian or Edwardian house, spend on the subfloor before the board and keep the build-up shallow. After that the wear layer earns more than the width or the grade: width changes how the floor looks on day one, the wear layer decides whether it can be brought back in year fifteen.
It repays itself in a large, regular room where the pattern has wall to develop. In a small room with a bay it is mostly cuts, and the labour weighs heavier in the total than it does with straight planks. The subfloor has to be flat before any of it is worth doing.
You do not need a showroom nearby: we deliver to your door in St Albans. 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.
All ranges
Every range we deliver into St Albans, grouped by material, by room and by the thing you are actually solving for.
Engineered Woodin St Albans33 floorsSolid Woodin St Albans15 floors
Parquetin St Albans15 floors
LVT Vinylin St Albans36 floors
SPC Rigid Vinylin St Albans36 floors
Laminatein St Albans12 floors6 materials · scroll sideways to see all
Kitchenin St Albans
Bathroomin St Albans
Living Roomin St Albans
Bedroomin St AlbansHallwayin St Albans
Conservatoryin St AlbansUtility Roomin St Albans7 rooms · scroll sideways to see all
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