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We deliver across High Wycombe and Buckinghamshire (HP postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
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Solid Wood Flooring in High Wycombe
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 High Wycombe 83% of homes are houses, most of them detached houses (34%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.
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Solid Wood in High Wycombe
Solid Wood flooring in High Wycombe: what the housing says
The Buckinghamshire district counts 220,328 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 34% of the homes in Buckinghamshire, 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 71% in Buckinghamshire, 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 High Wycombe 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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All 15 solid wood floors- of households rent privately (12.9% in 2011)
- 15.7%
- live in a flat or maisonette
- 17.2%
- postcode districts we deliver to
- HP11 to HP13
- solid wood floors in our range
- 15
Source: ONS, Census 2021, Buckinghamshire (E06000060) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue
The range
The solid wood range for High Wycombe 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.
| 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 |
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Solid Wood in High Wycombe, room by room
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Houses on the valley sides
The newer building climbs the sides of the valley and sits on screed, sometimes with heating run inside it, which makes a quote written for one of the old terraces useless further up the hill. Over a warmed screed engineered wood keeps its width where solid oak will not.Engineered Wood flooring in High Wycombe
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Our Buckinghamshire delivery covers: Hazlemere, Downley and Sands and the HP postcode area
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High Wycombe's homes, by the numbers
Buckinghamshire in the 2021 census: 220,328 households, 82% houses, 17% flats.
High Wycombe is HP11, HP12 and HP13 — Abbey, Disraeli, Booker and Cressex, Castlefield and Oakridge, Downley, Marsh and Micklefield, Ridgeway East, and Hazlemere. Buckinghamshire has been a single unitary authority since 2020. Ownership across the county was 70.0% at the 2021 census, private renting 15.7%. High Wycombe's own history is furniture — it was the centre of English chair-making — and the town still has the workshops and the terraces built around them. Those terraces are suspended timber, and the levelling is the first job. Where the property is one of the newer developments on the valley sides, expect screed and check for underfloor heating before choosing between engineered and solid.
Ownership across Buckinghamshire runs to seven homes in ten, and in HP11, HP12 and HP13 the stock leans detached and semi-detached. The terraces are older, built while the town made chairs, and they sit on suspended timber; the newer developments up the valley slopes are laid on screed, sometimes with heating in it.
Ground floors in the Disraeli and Bowerdean terraces are timber over open air, so moisture arrives from the void beneath rather than from the room above. Keep the airbricks clear, let the boards acclimatise where they will be laid, and leave a real perimeter gap.
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Before you choose
Before you order in High Wycombe
- 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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Buying guideBest Flooring for Underfloor Heating: What Works and What to AvoidRead guide
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Marlow Solid Natural Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 300 (mm)
£49.50 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
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Marlow Solid Smoked Oak Parquet Blocks 18 x 90 x 300 (mm)
£49.50 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
+ Sample · £1.99
Windsor Solid Smoked Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 150 (mm)
£52.00 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
+ Sample · £1.99
Windsor Solid Brushed Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 150 (mm)
£52.00 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
+ Sample · £1.99
Windsor Solid Smooth Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 150 (mm)
£52.00 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
+ Sample · £1.99
Windsor Solid Golden Brown Hand Scraped Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 125 (mm)
£49.50 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
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Windsor Solid Brushed Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 125 (mm)
£49.50 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
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Windsor Solid Golden Hand Scraped Oak Wood Flooring 18 x 125 (mm)
£49.50 / m²Trade price available - log in or apply
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Solid Wood flooring in High Wycombe: questions, answered
Is solid oak a good idea for a High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe points to that range.
How do I look after a solid oak floor in an older High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe address?
Sample pieces reach any HP11, HP12 or HP13 address, and where the floor is for a let, have them sent to whoever is paying rather than to the tenant. Take more than one shade, since what a screen shows and what the board does seldom agree.
Do you deliver solid wood flooring to High Wycombe?
Yes. We deliver across High Wycombe and Buckinghamshire from our UK warehouse, including the HP11, HP12 and HP13 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 High Wycombe?
Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your High Wycombe 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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