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Aylesbury · Buckinghamshire

Kitchen Flooring in Aylesbury

A kitchen floor takes water from above, heat from below and traffic all day, and in this range that points to two materials: rigid vinyl listed as waterproof, and porcelain tile. In Aylesbury 83% of homes are houses, most of them detached houses (34%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Kitchen in Aylesbury

Kitchen flooring in Aylesbury: what the housing says

The Buckinghamshire district counts 220,328 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a kitchen floor is specified here.

Detached houses are 34% of the homes in Buckinghamshire, and a detached kitchen in Aylesbury is a large, open room, often with an island and doors to the garden. A large room is where the 600 x 1200 mm porcelain tiles read well and where a wide rigid-vinyl plank does; the choice is warmth against a stone look, and the samples decide it in the room's own light.

Owner-occupation is 71% in Buckinghamshire, and an owner refitting a kitchen in Aylesbury is usually choosing between the tile and the vinyl on feel: porcelain is cool and hard underfoot, rigid vinyl warmer and quieter. With underfloor heating the tile's coldness goes away, and the range's tiles are listed for it.

of households rent privately (12.9% in 2011)
15.7%
live in a flat or maisonette
17.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
HP19 to HP22
kitchen floors in our range
35

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Buckinghamshire (E06000060) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Compare the kitchen range

The rigid-vinyl planks with the 0.55 mm wear layer, such as BML Natural Oak SPC Wide Flooring and BML Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring, and the herringbone boards such as BML Herringbone European Oak SPC, are the kitchen floors here, listed as waterproof; the BML Concrete Grey SPC Click Floor Tile gives a stone look without grout. In porcelain, the 600 x 1200 mm tiles such as Luna Blanca Matt Porcelain Floor Tile and Wabi Bianco Lappato Porcelain Floor Tile; the Wabi tiles carry an R11 slip rating in the listing.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Herringbone European Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Grey Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Black Slate SPC Click Floor Tile6.5mm x 305mm x 610mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Rustic Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Natural Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Poplar SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
Agate Blue Lappato Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 12009mmCompatible
Alexandria Cream Polished Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 12009mmCompatible

Room by room

Kitchen in Aylesbury, room by room

  • Room

    Kitchens where the floor has to be stiffened

    Putting porcelain tiles over a timber floor means making that floor rigid first, and once the work reaches the joists it has stopped being decorating. Buckinghamshire runs building control from one office now, so there is a single place to ask rather than two.
    Kitchen flooring in Aylesbury

Our Buckinghamshire delivery covers: Bedgrove, Watermead and Fairford Leys and the HP postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Aylesbury's homes, by the numbers

Buckinghamshire in the 2021 census: 220,328 households, 82% houses, 17% flats.

Aylesbury covers HP19, HP20, HP21 and HP22 — from Aylesbury North West and Berryfields through Buckingham Park and Watermead out to Bierton, Kingsbrook and Wing. Buckinghamshire became a single unitary authority in 2020, so building control and planning now run through one office rather than two, which is worth knowing before a project that touches structure. Ownership across the county was 70.0% at the 2021 census, one of the higher figures in the South East, and private renting only 15.7%. This is an owner-occupier market, and owner-occupiers buy floors they intend to live with. The Kingsbrook and Berryfields estates are recent enough that underfloor heating is common — over a heat source, engineered wood rather than solid.

One name covers four postcode districts here, and they do not all describe the same house: HP20 and HP21 hold the older streets nearer the centre, while HP19 and HP22 reach out through Buckingham Park, Watermead, Bierton and Aston Clinton. Which outcode an address carries tells us more than the name does.

A new screed keeps giving up its mixing water after the house is finished, and in the Bierton, Kingsbrook and Wing ward that is what a floor lands on. Meter it dry, then run the heating up and back down before anything is bonded to it.

Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Aylesbury

  • Dry slab, tested A kitchen floor in an older house has often been wet. A hygrometer reading, dry to BS 8203 practice, before the floor.
  • Vinyl or tile: warmth against permanence Rigid vinyl floats, is warmer and quieter and can be lifted; porcelain is bedded, harder and stays.
  • Units first or floor first A floating floor runs under the kick boards, not under the units; a tile usually runs under everything. Decide with the kitchen fitter.
  • Open-plan kitchen and living One floor across kitchen and living room means one floor for two rooms' demands: the 0.55 mm rigid vinyl or the porcelain, with the joint planned at the threshold.
  • Tile if it stays, vinyl if it changes A kitchen kept for twenty years can take a bedded porcelain; a kitchen that will be replaced takes the floating vinyl that lifts with it.

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Questions

Kitchen flooring in Aylesbury: questions, answered

Which kitchen floor suits a Aylesbury home?

There are two candidates in the range and the room decides: rigid vinyl listed as waterproof, warmer and quieter and forgiving of an old base, or porcelain tile, harder and permanent. The kitchen guide linked below compares them.

Can I have wood flooring in a kitchen?

Engineered oak is fitted in kitchens with a sealed finish and wiped-up spills, but it is not listed as waterproof and a leak under a dishwasher will mark it. Where the look of wood is wanted with the listing, the rigid-vinyl planks and herringbone are the answer.

Does a kitchen floor need a slip rating?

The HSE grades slip potential by pendulum test value, with 36 or above rated low. Two of the porcelain tiles in the range carry an R11 rating in the listing; for a domestic kitchen the floor is chosen for the spill and the mop as much as for the rating.

Can I order flooring samples to my Aylesbury address?

Samples go out to any HP19, HP20, HP21 or HP22 address, Quainton and Waddesdon included. Then stop looking at the piece and start walking on it: leave it down by the back door and let a wet boot and a chair leg settle the decision.

Do you deliver kitchen flooring to Aylesbury?

Yes. We deliver across Aylesbury and Buckinghamshire from our UK warehouse, including the HP19, HP20, HP21 and HP22 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.

Can I see a kitchen sample before ordering in Aylesbury?

Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Aylesbury 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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