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Gloucester · Gloucestershire
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 Gloucester 82% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (40%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.
Solid Wood in Gloucester
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.
The Gloucester district counts 55,406 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.
With semi-detached houses at 40% of the Gloucester stock, the common layout in Gloucester is a timber front room and a concrete kitchen. Solid oak suits the first and not the second: it is fixed to timber, not to a slab, and it should stop at the door to the extension. Where the whole ground floor is concrete, an engineered board is the honest recommendation, and the guide linked below says why.
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All 15 solid wood floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Gloucester (E07000081) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue
We deliver across Gloucester and the wider Gloucestershire area. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Stroud, the Forest of Dean, Cinderford, Lydney, Newent and surrounding Severn Vale.
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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.
| Product | Format | Wear layer / thickness | Fitting | Underfloor heating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Narrow Brushed Solid Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 90 | 18mm x 90mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Windsor Narrow Smooth Solid Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 90 | 18mm x 90mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Windsor Solid Coffee Hand Scraped Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 125 | 18mm x 125mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Windsor Solid Brushed Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 125 | 18mm x 125mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Windsor Solid Smooth Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 150 | 18mm x 150mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Windsor Solid Smoked Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 150 | 18mm x 150mm x RL | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Marlow Solid Natural Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 300 | 18mm x 90mm x 300mm | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
| Marlow Solid Unfinished Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 300 | 18mm x 90mm x 300mm | 18mm thick | Tongue & Groove | Not Compatible |
Local fact sheet
Gloucester in the 2021 census: 55,406 households, 81% houses, 18% flats.
Semi-detached houses make up 39.6% of the stock recorded for Gloucester, with terraces at 20.7% and purpose-built flats at 14.7%. Owner occupation has slipped from 67.2% in 2011 to 63.9%, while private renting has moved up to 21.3%. Rented homes tend to be refitted between tenancies rather than lived through, which argues for a hard-wearing wear layer and a fitting method that lets one damaged plank come out without disturbing the rest. Across GL1, GL2 and GL4 — Barton and Tredworth, Coney Hill, Barnwood, Abbeymead and Hardwicke among them — the question at survey is whether the ground floor is solid or timber, because one wants a moisture reading and the other wants levelling before anything goes down.
Gloucester combines historic cathedral-area properties with extensive Victorian and Edwardian terraces around the city centre, and large modern developments at Quedgeley, Abbeymead and Kingsway. The recently regenerated Docks area has added contemporary waterside apartments, while suburbs like Longlevens and Hucclecote remain popular with families seeking value over neighbouring Cheltenham.
Much of Gloucester is interwar semi, and in that plan the hall runs to a step down into a kitchen added later. The step is where two subfloors of different ages meet, and it is settled before a material is chosen.
Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
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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.
The solid range is not listed for underfloor heating. Every engineered board in the range is, so a heated floor in Gloucester points to that range.
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.
In a let it is the hall and the kitchen that take the wear, and they should be specified for it even if the bedrooms are kept simple. A hard surface layer through those two rooms outlasts a deeper, softer board everywhere.
Yes. We deliver across Gloucester and Gloucestershire from our UK warehouse, including the GL1, GL2 and GL4 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.
Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Gloucester 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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Every range and room for Gloucester, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
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