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Kettering · Northamptonshire

LVT Vinyl Flooring in Kettering

The LVT in this range is rigid-core vinyl: a decor and wear layer of 0.3 or 0.55 mm on a solid polymer core, click-fitted, and listed as waterproof by the manufacturer. In Kettering 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.

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LVT Vinyl in Kettering

LVT Vinyl flooring in Kettering: what the housing says

The North Northamptonshire district counts 148,918 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a lvt vinyl floor is specified here.

Semi-detached houses are 35% of the North Northamptonshire stock, and the semi's kitchen-diner, timber at the front and concrete under the extension, is a rigid-vinyl floor more often than any other in Kettering: one click floor across both bases, an underlay chosen per base, and no seam at the join. The wear layer decides the room: 0.55 mm for the kitchen and the hall, 0.3 mm where the traffic is lighter.

Detached houses are 30% of the homes in North Northamptonshire, and a detached kitchen is a larger room, often open to the garden, which is where the 228 mm wide SPC boards read best. A rigid floor floats, so a long open-plan run is planned with its expansion gap at the perimeter and broken at a doorway where the run gets long.

Owner-occupation is 66% in North Northamptonshire, and an owner fitting rigid vinyl is usually re-flooring a kitchen, a bathroom or a utility room where a tile felt cold and a laminate would not survive. The herringbone SPC boards give the pattern floor in a kitchen, listed as waterproof, which the oak blocks are not.

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All 36 lvt vinyl floors
of households rent privately (14.1% in 2011)
18.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
11.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
NN14 to NN16
lvt vinyl floors in our range
36

Source: ONS, Census 2021, North Northamptonshire (E06000061) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Local conditions

Boards over a ventilated void live with the year: an NN16 floor takes up moisture through a wet autumn and gives it back once the heating comes on. Leave the packs standing where the floor is to go, and keep a real gap at the skirting.

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The range

The lvt vinyl range for Kettering homes

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The range is BML rigid-core vinyl in four formats: the 5.2 mm click planks with a 0.3 mm wear layer, such as BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring; the 6.5 mm wide planks with a 0.55 mm wear layer, such as BML Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring and BML Rustic Oak SPC Wide Flooring; the herringbone boards, such as BML Herringbone European Oak SPC; and the 305 x 610 mm click floor tiles in concrete and slate decors. All are listed as waterproof and listed for underfloor heating.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Light Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Misty Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone American White Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Invisible Oak SPC Floor6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Concrete Grey SPC Click Floor Tile6.5mm x 305mm x 610mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Smoked Limed Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML White Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible

Room by room

LVT Vinyl in Kettering, room by room

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    Kitchens

    A kitchen in one of the trade terraces shares its joists with the hall, so a heavy tiled floor there means strengthening the structure first. LVT sidesteps that question: thin, stable, and untroubled by water standing at the foot of the sink unit.
    Kitchen flooring in Kettering
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Our Northamptonshire delivery covers: Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer and Rothwell and the NN postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Kettering's homes, by the numbers

North Northamptonshire in the 2021 census: 148,918 households, 88% houses, 11% flats.

Three postcode districts answer to Kettering, and much of what they cover is not Kettering at all: Rothwell, Desborough, Burton Latimer, Raunds and Irthlingborough each kept their own centre and their own building history. This page serves a cluster of old towns, so the right floor is not settled by the postal address.

The boot and shoe trade built Kettering in the nineteenth century, and those workers’ terraces sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. Semis are the commonest type across NN14, NN15 and NN16, with detached houses close behind. Expect to level old boards before anything goes down over them.

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

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Before you choose

Before you order in Kettering

  • Wear layer for the room 0.55 mm for the kitchen, the hall and anywhere with a dog; 0.3 mm for a bedroom or a bathroom with light traffic.
  • Dry base, even under a waterproof floor The floor is listed as waterproof; the base is not. A slab is checked with a hygrometer before the underlay goes down.
  • Acclimatise for 48 hours The MMFA's requirement for a multilayer modular floor: in the room, at the room's temperature, before it is laid.
  • The join between the two floors A semi's timber front room and its concrete kitchen meet at a step or a hump more often than not. A levelling compound at the join, and the threshold strip planned there.
  • Open plan needs its joints A floated rigid vinyl runs as far as the fitting instructions allow before an expansion joint. In a large open-plan ground floor, plan the joint at a threshold.
  • The 0.55 mm wear layer For a floor to keep, the commercial-grade 0.55 mm wear layer. Keep the invoice with the batch number.

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Questions

LVT Vinyl flooring in Kettering: questions, answered

Is LVT the right floor for a Kettering kitchen?

For most kitchens in Kettering it is the floor that fits: listed as waterproof, warm and quiet compared with a tile, click-fitted over timber or slab, and with a 0.55 mm wear layer rated for the traffic. The base under it still has to be dry, which is checked rather than assumed.

What is the difference between LVT and SPC?

SPC is a type of LVT with a rigid solid polymer core rather than a flexible one. Every LVT in this range is SPC. The rigid core is what lets the board bridge small unevenness in an old floor and stay flat over underfloor heating.

Which wear layer do I need?

The range carries 0.3 and 0.55 mm. The thicker layer is the one for a kitchen, a hallway or a home with pets; the thinner one suits a bedroom or a lightly used bathroom. EN ISO 10582 does not tie a class to a thickness, so the choice is the manufacturer's guidance and the room.

Can I order flooring samples to my Kettering address?

We send samples to any NN14, NN15 or NN16 address. Put them where they will actually live, down on the floorboards themselves rather than on a table: a base that looks true from standing height shows its dips once a plank bridges them.

Do you deliver lvt vinyl flooring to Kettering?

Yes. We deliver across Kettering and Northamptonshire from our UK warehouse, including the NN14, NN15 and NN16 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 lvt vinyl sample before ordering in Kettering?

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