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Winchester · Hampshire

Kitchen Flooring in Winchester

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 Winchester 83% of homes are houses, most of them detached houses (36%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Kitchen in Winchester

Kitchen flooring in Winchester: what the housing says

The Winchester district counts 51,715 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 36% of the homes in Winchester, and a detached kitchen in Winchester 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 67% in Winchester, and an owner refitting a kitchen in Winchester 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 (14.1% in 2011)
17.6%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.7%
postcode districts we deliver to
4
kitchen floors in our range
35

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Winchester (E07000094) · 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

Room by room

Kitchen in Winchester, room by room

  • Room

    Village kitchens at Alresford and Twyford

    Out towards Colden Common, Itchen Valley and the Candovers no designation stands in the way and the job is purely technical. A kitchen there takes porcelain tiles where the base is solid, or SPC where the ground floor is still timber and wants levelling.
    Kitchen flooring in Winchester

Our Hampshire delivery covers: Weeke, Stanmore and Badger Farm and the SO postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Winchester's homes, by the numbers

Winchester in the 2021 census: 51,715 households, 82% houses, 17% flats.

Winchester covers SO21, SO22 and SO23 — St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, Harewood, Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Alresford and Itchen Valley, and Oakley and the Candovers. It is a district of Hampshire. Ownership was 65.6% at the 2021 census and private renting 17.6%. Winchester is the one place on this list where the first flooring question is almost always a legal one rather than a technical one: the city has an exceptionally large historic core, and in a listed building or a conservation area original boards cannot be lifted without consent. Establish the designation before you plan the floor. Where consent is not an issue, the subfloor beneath is usually suspended timber and wants levelling.

Purpose-built flats take a smaller share of the Winchester district than of any Hampshire town on our list, so an order in SO22 or SO23 is almost invariably a whole house: one front door, one household, and nobody else with a say in what goes down. No lease, no communal stair, no neighbour's ceiling.

A Winchester house has one heating system and one household deciding when it runs, so the building cools and warms as a single object. That makes the first heating season the test: bring an SO22 or SO23 house back up gradually rather than in one go.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Winchester

  • 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 Winchester: questions, answered

Which kitchen floor suits a Winchester 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 Winchester address?

Yes, to a St Barnabas or Harewood address. Ask for the finish you would actually order rather than the range: oiled and lacquered oak photograph alike and behave nothing alike underfoot, and in a house kept for years that difference is the maintenance.

Do you deliver kitchen flooring to Winchester?

Yes. We deliver across Winchester and Hampshire from our UK warehouse, including the SO21, SO22, SO23 and SO25 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 Winchester?

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