Kitchen Flooring in Nottingham

The Nottingham kitchen most often on the order is the back of a Sherwood or Mapperley terrace, where the old scullery on joists meets an extension on a slab with a step or a ridge at the join. Nothing is chosen until the two are one level. Then a BML rigid vinyl plank crosses the join with no strip at all, or a porcelain tile from the range goes on a plywood deck over the timber half with a movement joint along the line of the old back wall.

A West Bridgford kitchen-diner on a slab, or a Trent Basin flat on a heated screed, gives a different question: large-format porcelain carries the heat into the room quickly, the vinyl plank is warmer to stand on while the room catches up, and both are listed as compatible with the heating. In a student house in Lenton the plank is the answer because the tenancy, not the kitchen, sets the timetable.

Semi-detached houses are 33% of the Nottingham 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.

Terraced houses are 27% of the homes in Nottingham, and the terraced kitchen in Nottingham 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.