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Aberdeen · Scotland

Solid Wood Flooring in Aberdeen

Solid oak is one piece of timber from face to back, 18 mm thick in this range, fixed to a timber base and able to be sanded and refinished for as long as the house stands.

Solid Wood in Aberdeen

Solid Wood flooring in Aberdeen: what the housing says

It belongs on a suspended timber floor or a ply base in a room with a stable climate, and it is the floor that outlasts its owner; it is not listed for underfloor heating.

In Aberdeen, as anywhere, solid oak is for the rooms with a timber floor structure and an even climate: the front rooms and bedrooms of older houses above all. It is fixed to the base rather than floated, it follows the humidity of the room through the year, and it repays that with a surface that can be renewed for decades.

Granite is not only how Aberdeen looks. Across Rosemount, Ferryhill, Torry, Woodside, Mannofield and out to Cults and Bridge of Don, a great many homes are built from stone thick enough to hold the temperature of the season rather than the temperature of the room.

Delivery to Aberdeen

We deliver across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode due to distance. We also cover Westhill, Inverurie, Stonehaven, Banchory, Ellon, Peterhead and surrounding Aberdeenshire.

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Compare the solid wood range

The Windsor boards come in 90, 125 and 150 mm widths and in brushed, smooth, hand-scraped and smoked faces; Windsor Narrow Smooth Solid Oak suits a hallway or a small room, Windsor Solid Smoked Oak a larger one. The Marlow Solid Natural Oak Parquet Blocks are the solid answer to a herringbone floor. None of the solid range is listed for underfloor heating.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
Windsor Narrow Brushed Solid Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 9018mm x 90mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Windsor Narrow Smooth Solid Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 9018mm x 90mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Windsor Solid Coffee Hand Scraped Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 12518mm x 125mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Windsor Solid Brushed Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 12518mm x 125mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Windsor Solid Smooth Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 15018mm x 150mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Windsor Solid Smoked Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 15018mm x 150mm x RL18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Marlow Solid Natural Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 30018mm x 90mm x 300mm18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible
Marlow Solid Unfinished Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 30018mm x 90mm x 300mm18mm thickTongue & GrooveNot Compatible

Local fact sheet

Aberdeen's homes, by the numbers

Aberdeen by postcode district: AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16 and AB22 and 3 more.

Aberdeen City is a unitary authority, and the area served stretches across AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB22, AB23, AB24 and AB25 — from George St/Harbour and Midstocket/Rosemount out to Bridge of Don, Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone and Kincorth/Nigg/Cove. Because the 2021 census ran in England and Wales only, no tenure or dwelling-type percentages are given for Scotland on this page, and none have been carried over from a neighbouring country to fill the gap. A survey therefore earns its keep: what the subfloor is made of, how far levels drop between rooms, and whether another household lives below all set the specification long before a surface is chosen. Where one does, acoustic performance leads and everything else follows from it.

Aberdeen combines distinctive granite Victorian and Edwardian townhouses across the West End and Mannofield with substantial detached homes in the affluent Cults, Bieldside and Milltimber corridor along the River Dee, plus modern apartment developments around the harbour and Bridge of Don suburbs. The Granite City’s oil-and-gas heritage, growing renewable energy sector and two universities drive a varied property market.

In a stone-walled flat or house the floor is part of how warm the place feels. Stone and ceramic stay cold underfoot; wood and resilient floors with an insulating backing take the chill off within moments of standing on them.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Aberdeen

  • A timber base, not a slab Solid boards are nailed or screwed to joists or to a ply overlay. Over concrete the answer is a battened floor or an engineered board.
  • Moisture of the base and the boards The boards acclimatise in the room until their moisture content matches it; the base is checked with a meter. A solid floor laid into a damp house will cup.
  • The expansion gap stays A solid floor moves with the seasons more than any other. The perimeter gap under the skirting is what lets it.

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Questions

Solid Wood flooring in Aberdeen: questions, answered

Is solid oak a good idea for a Aberdeen house?

For a room with a timber floor structure and a steady climate, yes: it is fixed to the joists as the original floor was, and it can be sanded and refinished for decades. For a concrete ground floor, a flat with a sound clause or a heated screed, the engineered range is the right oak.

Can solid wood go over underfloor heating?

The solid range is not listed for underfloor heating. Every engineered board in the range is, so a heated floor in Aberdeen points to that range.

How do I look after a solid oak floor in an older Aberdeen house?

Keep the room climate steady, keep grit off the surface with a mat at the door, and clean it dry or barely damp. An oiled floor is re-oiled where it wears; a lacquered one is recoated when the film dulls. The care guides linked below take each finish in turn.

Which flooring works best for Aberdeen’s climate?

The heating season is long here and the air outside is damp for much of it, so the floor is cycled between heated and cool more than in the south. Engineered board takes that better than solid timber, and LVT or SPC do not respond to it at all.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Aberdeen?

Yes. We deliver across Aberdeen and Scotland from our UK warehouse, including the AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16 and AB22 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 solid wood sample before ordering in Aberdeen?

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