
Delivery to Newport
We deliver across Newport and South Wales (NP postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
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Newport · South Wales
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 Newport 83% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (31%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.
Living Room in Newport
The Newport district counts 66,054 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 31% of the Newport stock, and the semi's living room in Newport 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 31% of the homes in Newport, and the terraced front room in Newport 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.

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All 48 living room floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Newport (W06000022) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

We deliver across Newport and South Wales (NP postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
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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.
| Product | Format | Wear layer / thickness | Fitting | Underfloor heating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victorian Antique Distressed Oak Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Oak Brushed UV Oiled Wood Flooring 14 x 90 x 450 | 14mm x 90mm x 450mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak 14 x 125 x 600 | 14mm x 125mm x 600mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Ascot Lacquered Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 | 14mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Cobham Invisible Oiled Oak Wood Floor 14 x 150 | 14mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Weybridge Light Grey Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 | 14mm x 190mm x 1900mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Ascot Whisky Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 | 14mm x 125mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
| Cobham Smoked Grey Oak Wood Floor 14 x 150 | 14mm x 150mm x 300-1200mm | 3mm | Tongue & Groove | Compatible |
Local fact sheet
Newport in the 2021 census: 66,054 households, 83% houses, 17% flats.
Newport covers NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 — Allt-yr-yn, Alway, Beechwood, Bettws, Gaer, Graig, Caerleon, and Bishton and Langstone. It is a Welsh unitary authority. Ownership was 62.9% at the 2021 census with social renting at 19.5% and private renting 16.7% — over a third of homes rented, which is high for Wales. Newport was a docks and steel town and the terraced housing reflects that: suspended timber ground floors, narrow rooms, and a base that will need levelling. Caerleon is older still. Where the property is a let, specify for the joint and the wear layer; where it is your own, the levelling is worth doing properly once.
Newport's flats are the part of the town this page's terrace advice does not reach, and they were built as flats: purpose-built blocks outnumber the ones carved out of older houses by better than six to one. In a Bettws, Lliswerry or Malpas block nothing under the floor resembles a terraced ground floor.
An Alway block floor is concrete cast between flats, with no outside air moving beneath it, so the moisture a plank meets rises from inside the flat: showers, cooking, washing dried on an airer, all of it peaking in the shut-window months.
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Engineered oak in the width the room can carry is the floor most living rooms in Newport 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 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.
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 Newport homes run the oak to the threshold and the vinyl beyond it in a matching tone.
Samples reach any NP10, NP18, NP19 or NP20 address, yes. Lay one down the length of the room and walk it end to end: a plank judged across a narrow terrace room reads quite differently once it runs the long way in daylight.
Yes. We deliver across Newport and South Wales from our UK warehouse, including the NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 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.
Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Newport 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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Every range and room for Newport, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
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