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Eastleigh · Hampshire

Solid Wood Flooring in Eastleigh

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

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Solid Wood in Eastleigh

Solid Wood flooring in Eastleigh: what the housing says

The Eastleigh district counts 56,922 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.

Detached houses are 33% of the homes in Eastleigh, and a detached house is more likely to have the two things solid oak wants: a timber floor structure and a room that is heated evenly. The 150 mm Windsor boards suit the room sizes. The larger the room, the more the season shows in a solid floor, so the expansion gap at the perimeter is not a detail to trim away.

Owner-occupation is 73% in Eastleigh, and that is the buyer solid oak is made for. A floor that can be sanded and refinished for as long as the house stands is bought once. In Eastleigh the older houses with timber floors are the natural home for it, and the finish, oiled or lacquered, decides how it is looked after rather than how long it lasts.

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of households rent privately (12.3% in 2011)
13.9%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
SO50, SO53, SO97
solid wood floors in our range
15

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Eastleigh (E07000086) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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The solid wood range for Eastleigh homes

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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 Eastleigh, room by room

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    Terraces built for the railway works

    Eastleigh grew as a railway town and the terraces put up for the works sit on suspended timber, which keeps moving whatever goes over it. That favours engineered wood, made up in layers so it stays put where a solid board would cup, once the joists have been checked and the boards screwed down.
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    Ground floors at Chandler’s Ford

    Chandler’s Ford is later building and largely solid underfoot, so a job a few streets from the railway terraces is a different one entirely. On a solid base the finished height is predictable and LVT can be bonded straight down, which suits a household that wants no movement underfoot at all.
    LVT Vinyl flooring in Eastleigh

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    Floors bought to stay

    Private renting in Eastleigh moved less than almost anywhere we measure and ownership is high, so the floor gets picked by whoever will still be standing on it. That justifies solid oak where the base allows it, and a deep-layered engineered oak where it does not.
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Our Hampshire delivery covers: Chandlers Ford, Bishopstoke and Fair Oak and the SO postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Eastleigh's homes, by the numbers

Eastleigh in the 2021 census: 56,922 households, 83% houses, 16% flats.

Eastleigh covers SO50 and SO53 — Eastleigh Central, North and South, Bishopstoke, Chandler's Ford, Colden Common and Twyford, and Ampfield and Braishfield. It is a district of Hampshire. Ownership was 71.0% at the 2021 census with private renting at just 13.9%, up only 1.6 points in a decade — one of the smallest shifts we see. Eastleigh, like Darlington, grew as a railway town, and the terraces built for the works are suspended timber; Chandler's Ford is largely later and solid. Two different jobs, half a mile apart. The one thing both share is that a floor bought in a high-ownership market gets lived on for a long time, so the wear layer is where the money goes.

Detached houses lead in Eastleigh, semis and terraces behind them, and the split is geographic as much as anything: the older streets that grew up with the railway sit on suspended timber, while Chandler’s Ford came later and is largely solid. Two subfloors, half a mile apart, across SO50 and SO53.

A room heated through winter dries the boards in it, and summer puts the moisture back. Cut the expansion gap in a Bishopstoke floor for every one of those cycles.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Eastleigh

  • 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.
  • Even heat, or it shows A large room heated unevenly, a garden door at one end and a radiator at the other, opens a solid floor at the joints. Acclimatise with the heating running as it will in service.
  • Oiled or lacquered Oil can be patched and re-oiled by the room; lacquer is recoated across the room. Choose by how you want to look after it, not by the look on day one.

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Questions

Solid Wood flooring in Eastleigh: questions, answered

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

How do I look after a solid oak floor in an older Eastleigh 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 Eastleigh address?

Yes. Order to an Eastleigh North or Nursling and Rownhams address, then put the piece down on the floor and look at it from standing height rather than holding it up: a board at arm's length reads a shade lighter than the same board underfoot.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Eastleigh?

Yes. We deliver across Eastleigh and Hampshire from our UK warehouse, including the SO50, SO53 and SO97 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 Eastleigh?

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