Skip to main content
Samples available UK-wide delivery

Your Basket

0

Your basket is empty

Browse our editorial collections and find your perfect floor.

Browse Collections
Subtotal £0.00
Shipping & discounts calculated at checkout
SSL encrypted — safe and secure

Grimsby · Lincolnshire

Living Room Flooring in Grimsby

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 Grimsby 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.

Living Room in Grimsby

Living Room flooring in Grimsby: what the housing says

The North East Lincolnshire district counts 69,824 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.

Semi-detached houses are 35% of the North East Lincolnshire stock, and the semi's living room in Grimsby is often knocked through from the bay to the garden. A long room takes a longer board and, laid towards the light, reads longer still; the 150 mm Cobham range or a herringbone set out from the centre suits it. Where the room crosses from timber onto the concrete of an extension, the two are levelled to each other first.

Terraced houses are 32% of the homes in North East Lincolnshire, and the terraced front room in Grimsby 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.

of households rent privately (18.1% in 2011)
22.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
11.3%
postcode districts we deliver to
DN31 to DN35
living room floors in our range
48

Source: ONS, Census 2021, North East Lincolnshire (E06000012) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Delivery to Grimsby

We deliver across Grimsby and Lincolnshire. Most in-stock orders reach Grimsby within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Cleethorpes, Immingham, Louth, Waltham, Scartho and the surrounding North East Lincolnshire area.

Delivery details

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

Room by room

Living Room in Grimsby, room by room

  • Room

    Family Living Rooms

    Grimsby family homes suit warm wood-effect LVT and laminate, offering comfort and easy cleaning for busy households in Scartho, Waltham and Humberston without the upkeep that solid timber demands near the coast.
    Living Room flooring in Grimsby

Our Lincolnshire delivery covers: Grimsby town centre, Cleethorpes, Waltham, Laceby, Scartho, Humberston, New Waltham, Great Coates, Little Coates, Nunsthorpe, Weelsby, Old Clee, Healing, Stallingborough, Immingham, Holton-le-Clay, Louth, Caistor, Grimsby and surrounding North East Lincolnshire

See it on the map

Local fact sheet

Grimsby's homes, by the numbers

North East Lincolnshire in the 2021 census: 69,824 households, 89% houses, 11% flats.

Census figures quoted for Grimsby are gathered for North East Lincolnshire, the unitary authority it belongs to, where terraced homes make up 31.6% of the stock against 11.3% flats. DN31, DN32, DN33, DN34 and DN35 take in East Marsh, West Marsh, Freshney, Heneage, Scartho, Park, Yarborough and Sidney Sussex. Terraces of this age tend to pair a solid, occasionally damp ground floor with a timber first floor, and party walls that carry sound more readily than a modern separating wall does. The practical order is a moisture test, then levelling, then the covering itself; skipping the first step is the usual reason an installation over an older ground floor fails.

Roughly a third of Grimsby is semi-detached and a third terraced, from East Marsh, Heneage and Sidney Sussex out to Scartho, Haverstoe, Humberston and New Waltham. A floor chosen from a screen rather than from a showroom floor has to be checked differently.

A photograph shows colour and pattern and hides three things: the sheen, which decides how light behaves across a room; the texture, which decides how marks show; and the edge, because a bevelled board draws a line around every plank and a square-edged one does not.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Grimsby

  • 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.
  • Front room over a void The semi's front room is on joists over a void. Airbricks clear, boards screwed down, then the floor; a knocked-through room brings the concrete kitchen into the same plane.
  • Level the old boards Screw down what moves and overlay with ply where it is uneven. The new floor shows the old one otherwise.

Reviews

Trusted by homeowners across the UK

★★★★★4.6/5Trustpilot
★★★★★4.9/5Google

Questions

Living Room flooring in Grimsby: questions, answered

What flooring suits a living room in Grimsby?

Engineered oak in the width the room can carry is the floor most living rooms in Grimsby 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 Grimsby homes run the oak to the threshold and the vinyl beyond it in a matching tone.

What flooring is best for a coastal home in Grimsby?

On this coast the wind is dry and sandy rather than mild, and fine sand is abrasive. It collects along a bevelled edge and grinds at the finish there, so a square-edged board with a textured surface, plus deep matting at the door, holds up better near the front.

Do you deliver living room flooring to Grimsby?

Yes. We deliver across Grimsby and Lincolnshire from our UK warehouse, including the DN31, DN32, DN33, DN34 and DN35 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 Grimsby?

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

The same range nearby

Living Room flooring nearby

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

HullScunthorpeLincolnDoncasterYorkRotherhamMansfieldGrimsby

United KingdomLincolnshireGrimsbyLiving Room

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

Order samples£1.99 each · up to 10 per order

Order
Newsletter

New ranges and offers. Hear it first.

Unsubscribe anytime