Dark Oak Engineered Wood Flooring
Bold depth with refined elegance. Dark oak brings rich tones, natural character and strong visual contrast into your home.
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Ascot Whisky Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 (mm)
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Dark Oak: all 15 floors compared
Same European Oak and fitting throughout; they differ in board width, wear layer, finish, surface, grade and price.
At a glance
Price per m²
£32.50–
Box price, as on each product card
Board width
125–190 mm
125 mm, 150 mm and 190 mm
Wear layer
3–6 mm
3, 4 or 6 mm
Every floor here
- Fitting: Tongue & Groove
- Underfloor heating: Compatible
Choose by board width
Grouped by board width, lowest price first in each group.
125 mm wide, 3 floors · from £32.50/m²
Ascot Coffee Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 (mm)14 × 125 × 300–1200 mm3 mm wear layerMatt LacqueredLowest price£32.50 per m²- Ascot Whisky Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 (mm)14 × 125 × 300–1200 mm3 mm wear layerMatt LacqueredLowest price£32.50 per m²
- £37.50 per m²
150 mm wide, 2 floors · from £39.50/m²
- £39.50 per m²
- £42.50 per m²
190 mm wide, 10 floors · from £37.50/m²
- Developer Dark Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 (mm)14 × 190 × 1900 mm3 mm wear layerMatt Lacquered£37.50 per m²
- Weybridge Coffee Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 (mm)14 × 190 × 1900 mm3 mm wear layerMatt Lacquered£42.50 per m²
- £42.50 per m²
- Bayswater Smoked Oak Wood Flooring 15 x 190 x 1900 (mm)15 × 190 × 1900 mm4 mm wear layerMatt Lacquered£49.50 per m²
- Bayswater Smoked White Handscraped Oak Wood Flooring 15 x 190 x 1900 (mm)15 × 190 × 1900 mm4 mm wear layerHard Wax Oiled£49.50 per m²
- Victorian Antique Distressed Oak Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 (mm)14 × 190 × 1900 mm3 mm wear layerHard Wax Oil£49.50 per m²
- Victorian Antique Light Brown Oak Flooring 14 x 190 x 1900 (mm)14 × 190 × 1900 mm3 mm wear layerHard Wax Oil£49.50 per m²
- Victorian Antique Dark Oak Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm)20 × 190 × 1900 mm6 mm wear layerHard Wax OilThickest wear layer£55.00 per m²
- Victorian Antique Smoky Oak Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm)20 × 190 × 1900 mm6 mm wear layerHard Wax OilThickest wear layer£55.00 per m²
- Richmond Chestnut Oak Wood Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm)20 × 190 × 1900 mm6 mm wear layerMatt LacqueredThickest wear layer£60.00 per m²
Full comparison tableAll 15 floors side by side
Size, wear layer, finish, surface, grade and price for every floor in this collection, read from the shop and sorted by price. The price is per square metre for a box, the same figure as on each product card.
| Floor | Size | Wear layer | Finish | Surface | Grade | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ascot Coffee Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 (mm) Lowest price | 14 × 125 × 300–1200 mm | 3 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Classic | £32.50 per m² |
Ascot Whisky Oak Wood Flooring 14 x 125 (mm) Lowest price | 14 × 125 × 300–1200 mm | 3 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Classic | £32.50 per m² |
| 14 × 125 × 300–1200 mm | 3 mm | UV Oiled | Brushed | Rustic | £37.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 190 × 1900 mm | 3 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Rustic | £37.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 150 × 300–1200 mm | 3 mm | UV Oiled | Brushed | Classic | £39.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 150 × 400–1400 mm | 3 mm | UV Lacquered | Smooth | Classic | £42.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 190 × 1900 mm | 3 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Classic | £42.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 190 × 1900 mm | 3 mm | UV Oiled | Brushed | Classic | £42.50 per m² | |
| 15 × 190 × 1900 mm | 4 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Classic | £49.50 per m² | |
| 15 × 190 × 1900 mm | 4 mm | Hard Wax Oiled | Handscraped | Classic | £49.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 190 × 1900 mm | 3 mm | Hard Wax Oil | Deep Brushed | Antique Effect | £49.50 per m² | |
| 14 × 190 × 1900 mm | 3 mm | Hard Wax Oil | Deep Brushed | Antique Effect | £49.50 per m² | |
Victorian Antique Dark Oak Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm) Thickest wear layer | 20 × 190 × 1900 mm | 6 mm | Hard Wax Oil | Deep Brushed | Antique Effect | £55.00 per m² |
Victorian Antique Smoky Oak Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm) Thickest wear layer | 20 × 190 × 1900 mm | 6 mm | Hard Wax Oil | Deep Brushed | Antique Effect | £55.00 per m² |
Richmond Chestnut Oak Wood Flooring 20 x 190 x 1900 (mm) Thickest wear layer | 20 × 190 × 1900 mm | 6 mm | Matt Lacquered | Brushed | Classic | £60.00 per m² |
Prices as listed on 9 November 2026; underlay, fitting and delivery come on top.
Buying guide
Dark Oak, explained
Still unsure? Real people, honest advice.
Dark Oak is engineered oak stained or smoked into coffee, whisky, hazelnut and near-black tones. There are 11 boards in three widths and four finishes, oiled, UV oiled, matt lacquered or UV lacquered; ten are brushed or deep brushed, one is smooth.
More engineered wood looks
9 floorsAntique Oak
5 floorsGolden Oak
7 floorsGrey Oak
4 floorsLight Oak
15 floorsNatural Oak
2 floorsUnfinished Oak
5 floorsWalnut
5 floorsWhite OakThe same look in other floors
The look
Depth needs light
Brushed, with one exception
Four finishes, one colour
In depth
Choosing dark engineered oak
Dark oak is a family of tones rather than one colour. In this range the warm end is Coffee, Whisky and Hazelnut, the cool end is Smoky, Twilight Timber and Dark, and the Victorian Antique Light Brown and Distressed boards sit between them with an aged, mixed surface. Cobham Walnut Stained and Ascot Cottage, listed by their colour as dark oak and smoked oak, make up the 11. Hold the samples against the wall colour you have, not the one in the photograph: a coffee board next to a warm white wall and the same board next to a cool grey wall look like two different floors.
Ten of the boards are brushed, and that is not a coincidence. A smooth dark floor is the hardest floor to keep looking clean, because every speck of dust and every fine scratch shows pale against it. Brushing lifts the grain into a texture that hides both; the smooth Cobham Walnut Stained board is the one to choose with that in mind. The finishes then decide how the floor is looked after: hard wax oil on the four Victorian Antique boards; UV oil on three boards; matt lacquer on Ascot Coffee, Ascot Whisky and Weybridge Coffee; UV lacquer on Cobham Walnut Stained. Oil can be topped up locally; lacquer wears harder but is refinished as a whole floor.
In practice
Formats run from the 125 mm wide Ascot boards in random lengths, through the two 150 mm Cobham boards, to the 190 mm by 1900 mm Weybridge and Victorian Antique planks. Wear layers are 3 mm on all of them except the two 20 mm Victorian Antique boards, which carry 6 mm and a 20 year manufacturer's warranty against 15 years on the rest. All are tongue and groove, micro-bevelled, and listed as compatible with underfloor heating.
If the room is small or lit from one side, the light oak and natural oak ranges are the honest alternative; a dark floor there is a choice you make with your eyes open. If the room is large or well lit, a dark floor gives it the anchor that pale schemes often lack.
Published standards2 sources
What the published standards say
Each entry is quoted from its source and linked to it. The full set is in the standards reference.
Wood over underfloor heating
UK trade-association guidance sets no blanket ban on wood over underfloor heating but ties it to a temperature limit, noting that some hardwood floor finishes are installed with a maximum floor surface temperature of 27 °C.
| maximum floor surface temperature for some hardwood finishes | 27 °C |
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“For example, some hardwood floor finishes are installed with a maximum floor surface temperature of 27°C.”
Source: CFA Guidance Document — Beyond Installation: Guidance on Underfloor Heating (Contract Flooring Association)Cleaning — the manufacturers’ own guidance
For multilayer modular floor coverings the MMFA requires low-moisture cleaning methods and states that pooling of liquid on the floor must be avoided under all circumstances.
“Absolutely avoid ponding in any case!”
Source: Basic cleaning — MMFA (Multilayer Modular Flooring Association)Questions