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Devon · flooring delivered
Engineered Oak Wide Plank, LVT Vinyl Click-Lock and Laminate Flooring: the floors we recommend for Torquay homes, delivered across Devon with samples at £1.99.
Delivered to Torquay: TQ1 to TQ2
Start here · Torquay in one figure
17.2%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
ONS, Census 2021, 2021-03-21 · all local facts →Purpose-built blocks account for nearly twice as many Torquay homes as flats carved out of a villa, so the base under a TQ1 or TQ2 flat has to be established rather than assumed to be villa joists.
Find out what the block was built on, then specify.
Guessing that costs a floor.
At a glance
Delivery
We deliver across Torquay and Devon (TQ 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 Devon delivery covers: Babbacombe, St Marychurch and Cockington and the TQ postcode area
Also nearby: Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton, Weston-super-Mare
Speak to our team 020 3858 0353Homes in Torquay
4 chapters on Torquay homes and what they ask of a floor · about 1 min read
01/ 04
Semi-detached, terraced and detached houses take roughly equal shares of Torquay’s stock, and private renting is unusually high on top of that.
Much of the Victorian and Edwardian villa stock across TQ1 and TQ2 was subdivided long ago, so in a flat the floor you lay is the ceiling of the home below.
02/ 04
Impact sound comes first in a conversion, so an acoustic underlay beneath LVT Vinyl Click-Lock or laminate does more here than the choice of species.
Where a home changes occupants often, you are buying the wear layer rather than the look.
03/ 04
A divided villa in Ellacombe heats by the week: one flat warm, the one beneath it shut and cold.
Across TQ1, treat that floor as a boundary rather than a surface.
04/ 04
Torquay is TQ1 and TQ2 — Tormohun, Ellacombe, Wellswood, St Marychurch, Shiphay, Barton with Watcombe, and Cockington with Chelston.
It sits in Torbay, a unitary authority. Two figures stand out: private renting is 26.6%, the second highest we deliver to, while social renting is only 8.3%, the lowest on this list. Torquay is a resort town and a large part of the housing is Victorian and Edwardian villas subdivided into flats and holiday lets. In a converted flat the floor is the ceiling below, so impact sound insulation comes first; and in a property that turns over frequently, the wear layer matters more than the species.
At the 2021 census, 29.8% of households in Torbay lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 69.8% in a house or bungalow — 22.6% of all households in a terraced house.
Our picks for Torquay
Engineered oak earns its place in a family house at St Marychurch or Wellswood, less so in a flat that takes new occupants every few weeks.
Where a let turns over quickly, a resilient wear layer that wipes clean between occupants counts for more than grain, and private renting in Torbay is high.
Laminate over an acoustic underlay covers a lot of ground in the subdivided flats: modest cost per room, and no great loss when it is changed.
Floor by floor
Every floor, room and need we deliver to Torquay, 3 of them with a note on Torquay homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor typeTorquay
Flats made out of divided villas: Torquay flats are largely Victorian and Edwardian villas cut into pieces, so the joists beneath them were laid when the building was one household. What happens on the upper floor arrives in the room underneath, which is why the underlay gets chosen before the engineered wood that sits on it. Houses at Shiphay and Cockington: Away from the converted flats, Torquay has ordinary family housing at Shiphay, Cockington with Chelston and Barton with Watcombe, where nobody lives underneath and the floor answers only to the household. That is where engineered oak is worth money a let could not justify.
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Floor typeTorquay
Rooms that change hands by the week: Private renting in Torquay runs higher than almost anywhere we deliver to, the resort holiday lets add a turnover on top of that, and social housing barely features. In stock like that the wear layer decides everything and the species decides nothing, which means LVT.
Floor typeRoom
RoomTorquay
Kitchens in a let: A holiday flat kitchen meets more different people in one season than a family kitchen meets in a decade, and none of them are careful with it. SPC takes dragged chairs and case wheels without denting, and it can be cleaned hard between guests.
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Pattern or need
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Pattern or needGuides
How to chooseFlooring Underlay: What It Does and How to ChooseRead guide 
Room guideBest Flooring for Flats and ApartmentsRead guide 
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 Bestsellers
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Contact usQuestions
Yes, to every address in TQ1 and TQ2 – Tormohun, Babbacombe, St Marychurch and out to Shiphay. Many Torbay orders land at a property standing empty between occupants, so name a key-holder or letting agent on the order and tell us where a pallet may be left.
Settle the height before the species. In a divided Tormohun villa the conversion fixed the clearance under the internal doors, so measure there first: where it is thin, laminate or click-lock LVT goes down and an engineered board does not.
Samples reach any Torquay address, and the useful one is often not the flat itself: an owner living out of the bay, or an agent holding keys across TQ1. Put your own address on the sample request and the property's on what follows it.
Local facts
8 figures for Torquay from the 2021 census, each with its source, and for the homes what they mean for a floor.
Homes
29.8%
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 Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
17.2%
live in a purpose-built block of flats
Households living in a purpose-built block of flats in Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
47.2%
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 Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
22.6%
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 Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Homes
62,995
households in Torbay
Households in Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay, local authority. ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21.
Who lives here
26.6%
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 Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay (E06000027), 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
64.1%
own their home
Households that own their home, outright or with a mortgage in Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay (E06000027), 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
8.3%
rent from a council or housing association
Households renting from a council or housing association in Torbay, Census 2021. Area: Torbay (E06000027), 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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