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Liverpool · Merseyside

Living Room Flooring in Liverpool

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 Liverpool 77% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (38%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Living Room in Liverpool

Living Room flooring in Liverpool: what the housing says

The Liverpool district counts 207,491 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 38% of the homes in Liverpool, and the terraced front room in Liverpool 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.

Social renting is 26% of households in Liverpool, and the living room in that stock is usually laminate across a programme, AC4 and E1, laid fast and floated; where a provider specifies timber, it is an engineered board to one specification across the units.

On the new developments in Liverpool the living room is on a heated screed, and the engineered oak, the parquet and the laminate are all listed for it; the solid oak is not. The screed is dry on a reading and the heating commissioned before the floor.

of households rent privately (23.4% in 2011)
26.1%
live in a flat or maisonette
23.2%
conservation areas
36
living room floors in our range
48

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Liverpool (E08000012) · Council conservation area register · Range: our product catalogue

Delivery to Liverpool

We deliver across Liverpool and Merseyside. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover the Wirral, Southport, St Helens and Warrington.

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 Liverpool, room by room

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    Living Rooms

    Engineered oak in classic finishes suits the warm character of Liverpool’s Victorian and Edwardian terraces. Natural and golden tones complement original period features.
    Living Room flooring in Liverpool

Our Merseyside delivery covers: Liverpool city centre, Aigburth, Woolton, Allerton, Crosby, Formby, Sefton Park, Toxteth, Wavertree, Mossley Hill, Childwall, West Derby, Kirkdale, Wirral, Birkenhead, Southport, St Helens, Warrington, Widnes, Bootle and Huyton

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Local fact sheet

Liverpool's homes, by the numbers

Liverpool in the 2021 census: 207,491 households, 77% houses, 23% flats.

Around 35% of Liverpool's homes predate 1914 and roughly 60% predate 1944; 41% are terraces and only 7% are detached. That is one of the oldest housing profiles of any major English city, and it means the default assumption should be suspended timber at ground level with a boarded floor already under the carpet. Lift a corner before you order. If the boards are sound, an engineered floor can often go straight over a levelling layer; if they are not, budget for the base as well as the floor. In the 36 conservation areas — Sefton Park, Rodney Street, Lark Lane, Wavertree Village — that original board is a heritage feature and removing it is not automatically yours to decide.

Liverpool is two fifths terraced, more than any other city on this list, and a quarter rent from a social landlord. Much of it is pre-war, with a suspended timber ground floor over a void that was built to breathe.

Later extensions and paved yards have closed a great many of those airbricks. The void then stops drying, the joist ends sitting in the wall are the first to suffer, and the tenant reports a floor that feels springy long before anything looks wrong from above.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Liverpool

  • 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.
  • Consent, then a click floor A tenancy agreement usually needs the landlord's consent for a hard floor. The click laminate and vinyl lift again at the end of the tenancy.
  • Screed reading, commissioning Before any floor goes over a heated screed.

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Questions

Living Room flooring in Liverpool: questions, answered

What flooring suits a living room in Liverpool?

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

What flooring is best for Liverpool rental properties?

Before specifying anything for a let, look under the floor and count the airbricks. Clearing them costs almost nothing and prevents the failure that no floor covering can survive; after that, a click floor that can be repaired plank by plank is the sensible let.

Do you deliver living room flooring to Liverpool?

Yes. We deliver across Liverpool and Merseyside from our UK warehouse, including the L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L6 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 Liverpool?

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