Parquet Flooring in Newcastle

The reception rooms of Jesmond and Gosforth were built to carry a patterned floor, and a Marlow block in basketweave or brick bond goes on a plywood deck there over levelled joists, the short block bridging the seasonal movement a timber floor over a void keeps. In a lower Tyneside flat the same build applies; in an upper one the acoustic layer goes under the deck, and the total depth is agreed at the door before a block thickness is chosen.

Lower Callerton and the Scotswood phases are heated screed, so the block there is the engineered Oxford construction. A Versailles panel is a large square that needs a room broad enough to show several whole panels, a Gosforth villa drawing room rather than a Tyneside flat, where the square cannot repeat across the width. Cutting waste is allowed for in a patterned order.

Semi-detached houses are 35% of the homes in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the semi's knocked-through living room is the room most often floored in herringbone across Newcastle: a pattern floor gives a long room a centre. Set out from the middle of the room, not from a wall, and where the room crosses from timber onto the concrete of an extension the two bases are levelled to each other first, because a glued pattern shows every step in the base.

Flats are 32% of the homes in the Newcastle upon Tyne district, and a pattern floor in a flat is a glued floor over a concrete slab, which is the simplest base a parquet can have. The lease is the constraint: where it asks for impact-sound performance, the build-up includes an acoustic layer under the blocks, and that layer has to be one the adhesive is approved for. Ask before ordering.