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Worcester · Worcestershire

Living Room Flooring in Worcester

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 Worcester 79% 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 Worcester

Living Room flooring in Worcester: what the housing says

It sees daily traffic and no water, so almost every floor type works; the decision is what the room looks like and how the floor is kept.

The Worcester district counts 44,721 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 Worcester stock, and the semi's living room in Worcester 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.

of households rent privately (18.2% in 2011)
21.2%
live in a flat or maisonette
21.1%
postcode districts we deliver to
WR1 to WR5
living room floors in our range
48

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Worcester (E07000237) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Delivery to Worcester

We deliver across Worcester and the wider Worcestershire area. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Malvern, Droitwich, Evesham, Pershore, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Stourport and surrounding Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills.

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 Worcester, room by room

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    Living Rooms

    Solid oak in hand-scraped finishes suits Worcester’s Cathedral-area Georgian and Battenhall Victorian properties. For homes with underfloor heating, engineered oak in matching smoked or warm tones provides the same character with better stability.
    Living Room flooring in Worcester

Our Worcestershire delivery covers: Worcester city centre, Battenhall, St John’s, Barbourne, Diglis, Warndon, Powick, Lower Wick, Henwick, Hallow, Worcester South, Ronkswood, Tolladine, Claines, Fernhill Heath, Kempsey, Callow End, Malvern, Droitwich Spa, Evesham, Pershore, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Stourport-on-Severn and surrounding Worcestershire

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Local fact sheet

Worcester's homes, by the numbers

Worcester in the 2021 census: 44,721 households, 79% houses, 21% flats.

Battenhall, Claines, Arboretum, Fort Royal, Cathedral and Lower Wick & Pitmaston all fall inside the WR1 to WR5 delivery area, as do Dines Green & Grove Farm and Kempsey further out. The mix is ordinary in the useful sense: 35.0% semi-detached, 22.2% detached, 21.6% terraced, 21.1% flats, ownership at 61.4% and nothing far from the national shape. Semi-detached stock carries one predictable complication, a party wall that carries sound both ways, and one that is often missed: a solid ground floor under a joisted first floor in the same house. Those two need different preparation and different pricing. Private renting in this part of Worcestershire has moved from 18.2% to 21.2% since the previous census.

Worcester runs from Georgian and Victorian streets around the Cathedral and Arboretum out to postwar semis at Claines, Warndon and Dines Green — a little over a third of the city semi-detached, a fifth terraced. In the older half, the house usually already contains a decision about wood that a new floor has to live alongside.

Doors, staircases, skirtings and window boards in a period Worcester house are often original and often stained rather than painted. A new floor either matches that tone or sets out to contrast with it; the unplanned look is the one that lands between the two.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Worcester

  • 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.

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Questions

Living Room flooring in Worcester: questions, answered

What flooring suits a living room in Worcester?

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

What flooring suits Worcester’s Cathedral-area period properties?

In a period house near the Cathedral the joinery came first and the floor comes second. Take the sample to the staircase rather than the window: the stair is the largest continuous piece of timber in these houses, and a floor that sits well against it will suit the doors too.

Do you deliver living room flooring to Worcester?

Yes. We deliver across Worcester and Worcestershire from our UK warehouse, including the WR1, WR2, WR3, WR4 and WR5 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 Worcester?

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