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Glasgow · Scotland

Living Room Flooring in Glasgow

Few houses, old front rooms

Only 4.9% of Glasgow households live in a detached house. What that means for echo, impact sound, period front rooms and winter gaps in the floor.

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What Glasgow homes mean for living room flooring

4.9%

in a detached house

150th highest of 151 towns

National Records of Scotland, 2022-03-20 · all local facts →
Glasgow 4.9%Scotland 23.9%Each square is 1% of homes

Just 4.9% of Glasgow households live in a detached house, against 23.9% for Scotland, which places the city 150th of 151 towns.

That one figure shifts the advice for a living room floor. The living rooms guide separates two kinds of sound. Impact sound passes through the floor to the room below, and it is what an underlay's figure describes. Echo stays inside the room, and in a house it is answered by rugs, curtains and furniture rather than by anything under the boards.

With detached houses this rare, and semis and terraces also below the Scottish figures, a Glasgow living room is more often a room in a flat, where the underlay speaks to the neighbours and the rug only to you.

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At a glance

Living room flooring in Glasgow at a glance

13.9%in a semiScotland: 23.3%What it means 12.3%in a terraced houseScotland: 18.2%What it means 1.7%in a converted flatScotland: 1.6%What it means 4.6January meanMedian of the 151 towns: 4.8 °CWhat it means Every figure with its source in Local facts

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Amersham Herringbone Smoked Golden Oak Wood Flooring 15 x 90 x 40015mm x 90mm x 400mm4mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
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Cobham Invisible Oiled Oak Wood Floor 14 x 15014mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Ascot Ashdown Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 12514mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible
Oxford Herringbone Light Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 45014mm x 90mm x 450mm3mmTongue & GrooveCompatible

Living Room in Glasgow

4 chapters on living room flooring in Glasgow · about 2 min read

01/ 04

  • 13.9%in a semi
  • 12.3%in a terraced house

Semis, terraces and the echo question

13.9% of households live in a semi-detached house (Scotland: 23.3%) and 12.3% in a terrace (Scotland: 18.2%). In any house, semi or terrace, the echo in a living room is a matter of soft furnishings rather than the underlay, so spend the underlay decision on warmth and feel instead.

The house type still matters for the floor itself. The living rooms guide contrasts a Victorian front room with a 1970s through-lounge: they ask different things of a floor, and which one you are sitting in is worth knowing before you choose.

02/ 04

  • 1.7%in a converted flat

Front rooms in older and listed buildings

Before 1945 is the build date of an estimated 43% of dwellings in the council area, where Scotland's share is 28%. In the older houses the period homes guide covers, herringbone blocks are the parquet of the hall and the front room. If your front room is of that age, blocks are the traditional answer.

With 279 entries in Category A, Glasgow stands 2nd of 10 towns on top-grade listings; the median of the 10 towns is 35.5. Where the building is listed, altering the character of a room like the front room can require listed building consent, and taking up its original boards or blocks may be exactly such an alteration.

Listed buildings here can contain original timber floors: in 2019 Historic Environment Scotland reported wooden flooring among the original features of the Garment Factory, a former warehouse listed in Category B. Where a listing describes the inside of a building like that, the conservation officer should hear about your plans before any board is lifted.

1.7% of households live in a flat in part of a converted or shared house (Scotland: 1.6%). A living room there may sit on timber joists rather than a concrete slab, and the same floor behaves differently on each.

03/ 04

  • 4.6January mean

Gaps in a wooden floor after a Glasgow January

Glasgow's January averages 4.6 degrees in the town centre, under the 4.8 of the median town (1991 to 2020). Through the heating season the room air is dry, a timber living room floor loses a little moisture and contracts, and the joints can show fine lines. In summer the wood swells back and they disappear. That is how real wood behaves, and a living room floor chosen in autumn should be judged in spring as well.

04/ 04

  • 21.3%with dependent children
  • 0.21dogs per household

Children, a dog and a rented living room

21.3% of Glasgow households have dependent children (Scotland: 23.5%). The family-homes guide calls the living room the easiest room in such a home: almost anything works there, provided the hallway catches the grit before it arrives.

Dogs are less common here: a median of 0.21 per household across 12 of the city's postcode districts (modelled, 2015), against 0.41 in the median of 2,737 postcode districts in Great Britain. Where there is one, runners along its routes, past the sofa and to the door, do more than a change of floor, and they can be added to a floor that is already down.

16.9% of households rent privately (Scotland: 12.9%). In a let, the living room is one of the dry rooms where the rentals guide accepts laminate as the budget answer and a reasonable one.

Checks

Before you order living room flooring in Glasgow

  • Name the sound you want to reduce Impact sound to the room below is the underlay's job; echo in the room is the job of rugs and furniture.
  • Check for original boards or blocks In a listed building, ask the conservation officer before lifting them.
  • Let the hall do its work The family-homes guide makes the living room easy on one condition: the hallway catches the grit first.
  • Expect winter gaps in real wood Fine joints open in the heating season and close in summer; this is not a fault.

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Questions

Questions about living room flooring in Glasgow

Do I need an acoustic underlay in a Glasgow living room?

In a flat above a neighbour, yes, because impact sound travels down. In a house, echo is a matter of rugs and furniture. Only 4.9% of Glasgow households live in a detached house.

Can I lift the old floor in the front room of a listed Glasgow building?

Ask first. Works that affect the character of a listed interior can need consent, and lifting original boards or blocks can count. Glasgow has 279 Category A entries.

Why do gaps open in a wooden living room floor in winter?

Heating dries the air and the boards give up moisture, then take it back in summer. January averages 4.6 degrees in the town centre, so the heating season is when you will notice it.

What floor suits a family living room in Glasgow?

Almost any, according to the family-homes guide, as long as the hallway catches the grit. 21.3% of Glasgow households have dependent children.

Local facts

Local facts: living room flooring in Glasgow

11 facts from the census, the Met Office, the council and other public records, each with what it means for a floor in Glasgow and where it comes from.

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