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Crawley · West Sussex
Herringbone is laid from rectangular blocks with square-cut ends, set at right angles and staggered so the end of one block meets the side of the next; in this range it comes in engineered oak, which is glued, and in rigid vinyl, which clicks. In Crawley roughly one home in 4 is a flat (26%), so sound through the floor matters alongside the base under it.
Herringbone in Crawley
The Crawley district counts 45,500 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a herringbone floor is specified here.
With terraced houses at 37% of the Crawley stock, the Crawley hallway is a narrow one, and that is the room herringbone was made for: the diagonal pattern draws the eye along the length and the hall reads wider than it is. The smaller 90 x 450 mm block keeps the pattern in proportion. Over a suspended timber floor the blocks are glued to a ply overlay; the rigid-vinyl herringbone clicks together over an underlay and needs no glue.
Social renting is 23% of households in Crawley, and a pattern floor appears in that stock through the rigid-vinyl herringbone rather than the glued oak: it clicks, it floats, it is listed as waterproof, and it can be laid across a refurbishment programme at the pace a programme needs.
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All 18 herringbone floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Crawley (E07000226) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue
We deliver across Crawley and West Sussex. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Horsham, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Reigate, Redhill, Dorking and surrounding Sussex and Surrey borders.
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In oak, the Oxford Herringbone blocks in 90 x 450 mm and 125 x 600 mm, in natural, light, dark brown, fumed and whitewashed faces: Oxford Herringbone Dark Brown Oak and Oxford Herringbone Light Oak are the two most often set against each other. In rigid vinyl, the BML Herringbone European Oak SPC and BML Herringbone Grey Oak SPC click floors, listed as waterproof, with a 0.55 mm wear layer.
| Product | Format | Wear layer / thickness | Fitting | Underfloor heating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Herringbone Oak Brushed UV Oiled Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 450 | 14mm x 90mm x 450mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Light Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 450 | 14mm x 90mm x 450mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Fumed Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 450 | 14mm x 90mm x 450mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak 14 x 125 x 600 | 14mm x 125mm x 600mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Light Brushed Oak 14 x 125 x 600 | 14mm x 125mm x 600mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| BML Herringbone American White Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring | 6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Herringbone Vintage Fumed Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring | 6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Herringbone Smoked Limed Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring | 6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
Local fact sheet
Crawley in the 2021 census: 45,500 households, 74% houses, 26% flats.
Terraces account for 37.4% of dwellings, well ahead of semi-detached at 22.7% and detached at 14.2%, with purpose-built flats adding a further 23.8%. Party walls on both sides mean impact noise travels sideways as well as downwards, so a resilient underlay earns its place even on a ground floor, and suspended timber decks want levelling and fixing before a rigid plank goes anywhere near them. Social landlords hold 22.9% of the stock here, a tenure where specification is usually fixed in advance and durability outranks fashion; ownership sits at 55.7%. Deliveries reach RH10, RH11 and RH77, covering Broadfield, Furnace Green, Ifield, Langley Green & Tushmore, Bewbush & North Broadfield, Copthorne & Worth and Crawley Down in West Sussex.
Laid out as a new town in neighbourhoods, Crawley shows it in the stock: more than a third terraced, close to a quarter in purpose-built flats, and social renting above one household in five. Bewbush, Broadfield, Furnace Green, Gossops Green and Langley Green were each built to a plan, so a house in one of them tends to be built like its neighbours.
New-town ground floors are a concrete slab with screed over them, built neighbourhood by neighbourhood to one plan. Where a house in Broadfield or Furnace Green needs a moisture test and a levelling coat, the ones either side usually do too.
Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
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The hallway and the living room above all: the pattern reads best along a length. In a kitchen the rigid-vinyl herringbone is the version to use, because it is listed as waterproof and the oak blocks are not.
A glued pattern floor takes longer to lay than a floating plank and uses more material, 15 to 20 percent waste against 8 to 12. The cost guide linked below cites the published fitting figures rather than guessing them.
The engineered Oxford blocks and the rigid-vinyl herringbone are both listed for underfloor heating. The screed has to be dry and the system commissioned before either goes down.
For a let on these estates, the underlay is where skimping shows first: it takes up small differences in the screed and deadens footfall in a house with thin partitions. Spend there, choose a mid-range click floor above it, and keep spare planks in the loft.
Yes. We deliver across Crawley and West Sussex from our UK warehouse, including the RH10, RH11 and RH77 postcode districts. Delivery cost and timing depend on the delivery postcode and are shown at checkout, and samples come by post first so the floor can be seen in the room before the full order.
Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Crawley address. Two or three side by side on the floor, in the room's own light morning and evening, settle the colour faster than any photograph.
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Every range and room for Crawley, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
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