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Kettering · Northamptonshire

Kitchen Flooring in Kettering

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 Kettering 89% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (35%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

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Kitchen in Kettering

Kitchen flooring in Kettering: what the housing says

The North Northamptonshire district counts 148,918 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.

Semi-detached houses are 35% of the North Northamptonshire stock, and the semi's kitchen is usually a kitchen-diner today, extended onto a new slab with underfloor heating under it. A rigid-vinyl floor runs from the old concrete onto the new screed in one piece; a porcelain tile does too, on a levelled base. Both are listed for underfloor heating in this range.

Detached houses are 30% of the homes in North Northamptonshire, and a detached kitchen in Kettering 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 66% in North Northamptonshire, and an owner refitting a kitchen in Kettering 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.

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All 35 kitchen floors
of households rent privately (14.1% in 2011)
18.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
11.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
NN14 to NN16
kitchen floors in our range
35

Source: ONS, Census 2021, North Northamptonshire (E06000061) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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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.

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

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    A kitchen in one of the trade terraces shares its joists with the hall, so a heavy tiled floor there means strengthening the structure first. LVT sidesteps that question: thin, stable, and untroubled by water standing at the foot of the sink unit.
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Our Northamptonshire delivery covers: Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer and Rothwell and the NN postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Kettering's homes, by the numbers

North Northamptonshire in the 2021 census: 148,918 households, 88% houses, 11% flats.

Kettering is NN14, NN15 and NN16 — Kettering Central and North, Ise, Avondale Grange, Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer, Desborough and Irthlingborough. Like Corby it sits in North Northamptonshire, so the census figures are the same authority-wide numbers: 65.0% ownership, 18.4% private renting, up 4.3 points. The housing, though, is not the same as Corby's at all. Kettering grew on the boot and shoe trade in the nineteenth century, so the terraces here predate Corby's new town by a century and sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. That is the practical difference between the two towns: in Kettering you are levelling boards, in Corby you are checking a membrane.

Three postcode districts answer to Kettering, and much of what they cover is not Kettering at all: Rothwell, Desborough, Burton Latimer, Raunds and Irthlingborough each kept their own centre and their own building history. This page serves a cluster of old towns, so the right floor is not settled by the postal address.

Boards over a ventilated void live with the year: an NN16 floor takes up moisture through a wet autumn and gives it back once the heating comes on. Leave the packs standing where the floor is to go, and keep a real gap at the skirting.

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

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Before you choose

Before you order in Kettering

  • 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.
  • The extension slab The kitchen in a semi is usually the later extension, on a slab that may have no membrane. The hygrometer reading comes before the choice.
  • 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 Kettering: questions, answered

Which kitchen floor suits a Kettering 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 Kettering address?

We send samples to any NN14, NN15 or NN16 address. Put them where they will actually live, down on the floorboards themselves rather than on a table: a base that looks true from standing height shows its dips once a plank bridges them.

Do you deliver kitchen flooring to Kettering?

Yes. We deliver across Kettering and Northamptonshire from our UK warehouse, including the NN14, NN15 and NN16 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 Kettering?

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