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Burnley · Lancashire

Solid Wood Flooring in Burnley

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. In Burnley 91% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (47%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Solid Wood in Burnley

Solid Wood flooring in Burnley: what the housing says

The Burnley district counts 39,873 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a solid wood floor is specified here.

Terraced houses are 47% of the homes in the Burnley district, and a terrace is where solid oak is at home: the original floor was solid timber on joists, and a new solid board is fixed the same way, nailed or screwed through the tongue into the joists or a ply overlay. The 90 mm Windsor Narrow boards suit the proportions of a terraced front room. What the terrace needs first is a dry, ventilated void underneath, because solid timber follows the moisture of the air around it.

Private renting is 24% of households in Burnley, and solid oak is a landlord's choice only where the property is held for the long term: the floor costs more to fit than it does to buy, and its advantage, that it can be refinished for decades, pays off over tenancies rather than within one. For a portfolio with a shorter horizon, the engineered range is the usual specification.

of households rent privately (19.4% in 2011)
24.3%
live in a flat or maisonette
9.1%
postcode districts we deliver to
BB10 to BB12
solid wood floors in our range
15

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Burnley (E07000117) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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

Room by room

Solid Wood in Burnley, room by room

  • Room

    Living rooms in a house not for let

    Ownership has fallen further here than anywhere else on the list, which leaves the owner-occupier as the buyer thinking well past the next tenancy. A Briercliffe or Worsthorne front room can carry solid oak, or a deep engineered oak board where the joists rule solid timber out.
    Living Room flooring in Burnley

Our Lancashire delivery covers: Padiham, Brierfield and Nelson and the BB postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Burnley's homes, by the numbers

Burnley in the 2021 census: 39,873 households, 91% houses, 9% flats.

Burnley is BB10, BB11 and BB12 — Bank Hall, Brunshaw, Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Coal Clough with Deerplay, Briercliffe, and out to Cliviger with Worsthorne. It is a district of Lancashire. Burnley has the steepest tenure shift of any town we deliver to: ownership fell 5.2 points to 59.8% between 2011 and 2021 while private renting rose 4.9 points to 24.3%. Almost a quarter of Burnley households now rent from a private landlord. Those are the terraces the town is built from, and a landlord refitting one is buying a floor that has to look acceptable and survive five years, not thirty. LVT over a levelled base is the honest recommendation there; engineered oak is the recommendation for the house you are keeping.

Terraces outnumber every other kind of home in Burnley, street after street through Bank Hall, Gannow, Brunshaw and Daneshouse with Stoneyholme. Ownership has dropped sharply since the last census while private renting rose to roughly a quarter of households, so a great many floors across BB10, BB11 and BB12 are a landlord’s call.

Houses climbing out of the valley to Briercliffe and Cliviger stand more exposed than the town below, and are heated in bursts rather than steadily. A board should reach the room's own temperature before it is cut, and a moisture barrier belongs at the base.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Burnley

  • 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.
  • The void under the floor Check the airbricks. A terrace with a blocked void has damp joists, and a new solid floor will follow them.

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Questions

Solid Wood flooring in Burnley: questions, answered

Is solid oak a good idea for a Burnley 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 Burnley points to that range.

How do I look after a solid oak floor in an older Burnley 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.

Can I order flooring samples to my Burnley address?

You can, and to the whole spread – an address at Barrowford, Reedley or Clover Hill gets them by post like any other. Stand the sample against the skirting you are keeping; a board that fights the existing joinery shows it worst on the landing.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Burnley?

Yes. We deliver across Burnley and Lancashire from our UK warehouse, including the BB10, BB11 and BB12 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 Burnley?

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