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Newbury · Berkshire

LVT Vinyl Flooring in Newbury

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 Newbury 84% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (33%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

LVT Vinyl in Newbury

LVT Vinyl flooring in Newbury: what the housing says

The West Berkshire district counts 66,659 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.

Detached houses are 33% of the homes in West Berkshire, 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 69% in West Berkshire, 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.

of households rent privately (13.7% in 2011)
17.1%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.3%
postcode districts we deliver to
RG14, RG20
lvt vinyl floors in our range
36

Source: ONS, Census 2021, West Berkshire (E06000037) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Compare the lvt vinyl range

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 Newbury, room by room

  • Room

    Back halls and utility rooms

    The delivery area reaches well past the town, out to Chieveley, Cold Ash, Hungerford and Kintbury, where a back door works hard in every season. LVT in a tile format takes grit and wet boots better than any timber board on the market.
    Hallway flooring in Newbury

Our Berkshire delivery covers: Thatcham, Shaw and Wash Common and the RG postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Newbury's homes, by the numbers

West Berkshire in the 2021 census: 66,659 households, 83% houses, 16% flats.

Every figure on this page is West Berkshire's, and the authority counts Newbury alongside Thatcham, Hungerford and Kintbury. About one home in six in that count is a flat, and four in five of them purpose-built rather than divided out of houses. An RG14 order is settled by the building at the address, not by the average.

Newbury’s housing splits along the same line its map does. Detached and semi-detached homes together make up most of RG14 and RG20, with terraces in the older centre and owners well ahead of renters. That leaves two subfloors within a mile: timber joists in the historic core, screed out on the later development.

A Wash Common ground floor crossing four or five rooms is not heated evenly across them, and the room used least swings furthest. Let the packs settle where they will be laid, and leave expansion room at every wall and doorway along the run.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Newbury

  • 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.
  • 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 Newbury: questions, answered

Is LVT the right floor for a Newbury kitchen?

For most kitchens in Newbury 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.

Which flooring is best for Newbury homes?

Wear is settled at the front door, not in the sitting room. Where a Speen or Evingar order covers rooms of very different traffic, buy to the busiest: in an engineered board that means the depth of the top layer, and in LVT the wear class.

Do you deliver lvt vinyl flooring to Newbury?

Yes. We deliver across Newbury and Berkshire from our UK warehouse, including the RG14 and RG20 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 Newbury?

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