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A Bristol kitchen-diner running from the middle of the house to the garden is one long space over two different floors – boards at the front, a slab in the extension. Bristol’s slopes make levelling that a real job.
Kitchen in Bristol
Once it is one plane, vinyl gives warmth over a cold slab and porcelain gives a surface that outlasts several kitchens. Either beats a threshold strip.
The Bristol kitchen is the knocked-through back of a Victorian terrace in Bedminster, Southville or Bishopston, opened to the garden with an extension on a slab beside the old room on boards over a cellar. The two are brought to one level before the floor is chosen; then the BML rigid vinyl plank crosses the join without a strip, or a porcelain tile from the range goes over a plywood deck on the timber half with a movement joint along the old back wall.
Underfloor heating is common in those extensions, and both the plank and the large-format porcelain are listed as compatible with it; the tile carries the heat into the room faster, the plank is warmer underfoot before the room has caught up. In a Wapping Wharf flat the kitchen sits on concrete and the lease sets the acoustic layer beneath whichever surface is chosen.
Flats are 35% of the homes in the City of Bristol district, and a kitchen in a flat is often open to the living room and above or below a neighbour. A rigid-vinyl floor over an acoustic underlay carries less footfall through the slab than a tile does, and it stays under the door thresholds; the lease usually has a view on hard floors, and it is read first.
Terraced houses are 32% of the homes in City of Bristol, and the terraced kitchen in Bristol is the room at the back, often on a concrete floor laid over the old scullery, sometimes damp. That base is the decision: a rigid-vinyl floor bridges a slab that is not quite flat and floats over it, where a tile needs the slab levelled and a dry reading first. Either way the hygrometer comes before the floor.
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All 35 kitchen floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Bristol, City of (E06000023) · Council conservation area register · Range: our product catalogue
We deliver across Bristol and the wider South West. Most in-stock orders reach Bristol within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Portishead, Clevedon and surrounding North Somerset.
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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.
| Product | Format | Wear layer / thickness | Fitting | Underfloor heating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BML Herringbone European Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring | 6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Herringbone Grey Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring | 6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Black Slate SPC Click Floor Tile | 6.5mm x 305mm x 610mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Rustic Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring | 6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Natural Oak SPC Wide Flooring | 6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| BML Poplar SPC Wide Flooring | 6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm | 0.55mm | Click · listed as waterproof | Compatible |
| Agate Blue Lappato Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 1200 | 9mm | Compatible | ||
| Alexandria Cream Polished Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 1200 | 9mm | Compatible |
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Our Bristol delivery covers: Bristol city centre, Clifton, Redland, Cotham, Bishopston, Southville, Long Ashton, Bedminster, Easton, Montpelier, St Andrews, Westbury Park, Henleaze, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park, Whiteladies Road, Harbourside, Wapping Wharf, Portishead, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare, Nailsea, Yatton and surrounding North Somerset
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City of Bristol in the 2021 census: 191,638 households, 65% houses, 35% flats.
Terraces dominate Bristol: 46% of homes are mid-terrace and 10% end-terrace, and about a third of the stock predates 1930, with 17% built before 1900. The Victorian terraces of Bedminster, Easton and Montpelier are suspended timber at ground level, frequently over a cellar, and frequently not level — Bristol's hills show up inside the houses as much as outside. In the 33 conservation areas, Clifton and Hotwells and Kingsdown among them, original boards are a protected feature. Lockleaze and Knowle West bring the opposite condition: new screed with underfloor heating, where engineered wood is the right construction and solid timber is not.
A third of Bristol is terraced and one home in ten is a flat within a larger house, much of it Georgian and Victorian through Clifton, Redland, Montpelier and Bedminster. In the older terraces the front room's floor does not sit on the ground at all: it spans a vault under the pavement.
Those pavement vaults were built for coal and have little ventilation left. The timber floor above one is therefore drier or damper than the rest of the house depending on what has happened to the hatch and the airbricks — which is why a reading taken in the back room says nothing about the front.
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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.
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.
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.
Think about the room, the foot traffic and your style. Engineered oak in characterful brushed and oiled finishes dominates Bristol’s family homes, particularly in Bishopston and Redland. Herringbone parquet is the go-to upgrade for Clifton’s grand townhouses, while LVT vinyl handles the open-plan kitchens that feature in nearly every Bristol renovation. The easiest way to decide is to order a few samples and see them in your own Bristol light before you buy.
Yes. We deliver across Bristol and Bristol from our UK warehouse, including the BS1, BS2, BS3, BS4, BS5 and BS6 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 Bristol 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 Bristol, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
Engineered Woodin Bristol33 floors
Solid Woodin Bristol15 floors
Parquetin Bristol15 floors
LVT Vinylin Bristol36 floors
SPC Rigid Vinylin Bristol36 floors
Laminatein Bristol12 floors6 materials · scroll sideways to see all
Bathroomin Bristol
Living Roomin Bristol
Bedroomin BristolHallwayin Bristol
Conservatoryin BristolUtility Roomin Bristol6 rooms · scroll sideways to see all
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