Skip to main content
Samples available UK-wide delivery
Speak to an expert 020 3858 0353 Pro Portal
My Account Welcome back Sign in for faster checkout, order tracking and saved details.
Sign in Create account
  • Track orders & deliveries
  • Faster checkout with saved details
  • Order history & easy re-orders
Need help? Speak to our team →

Your Basket

0

Your basket is empty

Browse our editorial collections and find your perfect floor.

Browse Collections
Popular routes
Engineered Wood LVT Parquet Order Samples
Subtotal £0.00
Shipping & discounts calculated at checkout
View cart Secure checkout
SSL encrypted — safe and secure

Bracknell · Berkshire

Living Room Flooring in Bracknell

The living room is the dry room that is seen most, which is why it is where the engineered oak and the parquet in the range go; the choice is width, finish and pattern rather than material. In Bracknell 79% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (29%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Shop Living RoomOrder samples

Living Room in Bracknell

Living Room flooring in Bracknell: what the housing says

The Bracknell Forest district counts 50,248 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a living room floor is specified here.

Terraced houses are 29% of the homes in Bracknell Forest, and the terraced front room in Bracknell is a small, well-proportioned room that a narrow board flatters: the 125 mm Ascot boards or the 90 x 450 mm Oxford herringbone, over a suspended timber floor that is screwed down and levelled first. A wide plank in a small room reads as three boards and a cut; the narrow one reads as a floor.

Owner-occupation is 69% in Bracknell Forest, and the living room is the room an owner-occupier in Bracknell spends on: engineered oak with a 3 mm or thicker wear layer, or a herringbone, laid once and refinished when the time comes. The finish decides the care, oil patched by the room, lacquer recoated across it.

Shop the range

All 48 living room floors
of households rent privately (12.5% in 2011)
15.7%
live in a flat or maisonette
20.9%
postcode districts we deliver to
RG12, RG42
living room floors in our range
48

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Bracknell Forest (E06000036) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Order samplesSpeak to our team · 020 3858 0353

The range

The living room range for Bracknell homes

Browse all floors

Compare the living room range

The engineered boards from the 125 mm Ascot Natural Brushed Oak through the 150 mm Cobham Natural Brushed Oak to the 190 mm Weybridge Golden Wheat Oak and the 220 mm Victorian Antique Natural Oak; the Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak and the Knightsbridge Chevron for a pattern; the Montpellier Oak Versailles Panel for a formal room. All engineered, all with a 3 mm or thicker wear layer, all listed for underfloor heating.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
Victorian Antique Distressed Oak Flooring 14 x 190 x 190014mm x 190mm x 1900mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Oxford Herringbone Oak Brushed UV Oiled Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 45014mm x 90mm x 450mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak 14 x 125 x 60014mm x 125mm x 600mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Ascot Lacquered Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 12514mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Cobham Invisible Oiled Oak Wood Floor 14 x 15014mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Weybridge Light Grey Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 190014mm x 190mm x 1900mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Ascot Whisky Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 12514mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Cobham Smoked Grey Oak Wood Floor 14 x 15014mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible

Local fact sheet

Bracknell's homes, by the numbers

Bracknell Forest in the 2021 census: 50,248 households, 78% houses, 21% flats.

Bracknell is RG12 and RG42 — Easthampstead and Wildridings, Great Hollands, Hanworth, Harmans Water and Crown Wood, Bullbrook, and north to Binfield and Warfield West. It is a unitary authority in its own right, separate from Berkshire's other five. Bracknell was designated a new town in 1949, and the housing reflects it: ownership was 66.8% at the 2021 census with social renting also at 15.7%, an unusually even three-way split. For flooring that matters more than it sounds. Post-war and later housing generally means a solid ground floor rather than suspended timber, so the question is not levelling the boards but checking the damp-proof membrane before anything goes down.

Past the designated estates the map keeps going: Crowthorne and Swinley Forest at the southern edge, Warfield West and Jennett's Park at the other, then over the borough line to Twyford, Ruscombe and Hurst. An address on this page is as often a village house on a wide plot as an estate terrace.

Concrete holds the room's cold and gives it up slowly, so on a Bracknell slab it is the underlay that decides how warm the floor feels underfoot. That base does not move with the season, so what changes across the year is comfort rather than fit.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Bracknell

  • Width for the room Narrow boards for a small room, wide for a large one. Lay towards the main window so the grain runs with the light.
  • Oil or lacquer Oil is patched where it wears; lacquer is recoated across the room. Choose by how the floor will be kept.
  • One batch, plus the allowance The whole room from one batch, with 8 to 12 percent over for a plank and 15 to 20 for a pattern.
  • Level the old boards Screw down what moves and overlay with ply where it is uneven. The new floor shows the old one otherwise.
  • The wear layer you will sand A living-room floor kept for decades is the one that gets sanded. The 4 and 6 mm wear layers allow it more than once; keep the batch number.

Bestsellers

More living room, delivered to Bracknell

See the whole range

Reviews

Trusted by homeowners across the UK

★★★★★4.6/5Trustpilot
★★★★★4.9/5Google

Questions

Living Room flooring in Bracknell: questions, answered

What flooring suits a living room in Bracknell?

Engineered oak in the width the room can carry is the floor most living rooms in Bracknell end up with: it looks like the solid timber it is on top, takes underfloor heating and can be sanded. A herringbone suits a room with length, laminate suits a budget, and rigid vinyl suits a living room that opens onto the kitchen.

Wide or narrow boards for a living room?

Wide boards calm a large room and dominate a small one; narrow boards suit a terraced front room. The range runs from 90 mm solid boards to 220 mm engineered planks, and the plank-width guide linked below weighs it up.

Can I run the same floor from the living room into the kitchen?

The rigid-vinyl range can run through both, because it is listed as waterproof. An oak floor stops at the kitchen door or accepts the risk of a leak; many Bracknell homes run the oak to the threshold and the vinyl beyond it in a matching tone.

Can I order flooring samples to my Bracknell address?

Order as many as you like: they are posted free to a Bracknell Forest address, Crowthorne and Warfield West included. Put the board on the underlay you mean to buy rather than on the old carpet; that pair is what the room will feel like.

Do you deliver living room flooring to Bracknell?

Yes. We deliver across Bracknell and Berkshire from our UK warehouse, including the RG12 and RG42 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 living room sample before ordering in Bracknell?

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

All ranges

More flooring pages for Bracknell

Every range and room for Bracknell, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.

6 materials · scroll sideways to see all

6 rooms · scroll sideways to see all

6 needs · scroll sideways to see all

The same range nearby

Living Room flooring nearby

Distances are straight-line miles from Bracknell. Each link opens the living room page for that town.

CamberleyMaidenheadWindsorFarnboroughReadingWokingGuildfordBracknell

United KingdomBerkshireBracknellLiving Room

151 towns and cities, 24 county guides, one map.

See every area we deliver toOrder a sample

Order samples£1.99 each · up to 10 per order

Order
Newsletter

New ranges and offers. Hear it first.

Unsubscribe anytime