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Kettering · Northamptonshire

Solid Wood Flooring in Kettering

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 Kettering 89% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (35%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

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Solid Wood in Kettering

Solid Wood flooring in Kettering: what the housing says

The North Northamptonshire district counts 148,918 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 35% of the North Northamptonshire stock, the common layout in Kettering 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.

Detached houses are 30% of the homes in North Northamptonshire, 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 66% in North Northamptonshire, 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 Kettering 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 (14.1% in 2011)
18.4%
live in a flat or maisonette
11.2%
postcode districts we deliver to
NN14 to NN16
solid wood floors in our range
15

Source: ONS, Census 2021, North Northamptonshire (E06000061) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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The solid wood range for Kettering 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

Local fact sheet

Kettering's homes, by the numbers

North Northamptonshire in the 2021 census: 148,918 households, 88% houses, 11% flats.

Kettering is NN14, NN15 and NN16 — Kettering Central and North, Ise, Avondale Grange, Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer, Desborough and Irthlingborough. Like Corby it sits in North Northamptonshire, so the census figures are the same authority-wide numbers: 65.0% ownership, 18.4% private renting, up 4.3 points. The housing, though, is not the same as Corby's at all. Kettering grew on the boot and shoe trade in the nineteenth century, so the terraces here predate Corby's new town by a century and sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. That is the practical difference between the two towns: in Kettering you are levelling boards, in Corby you are checking a membrane.

The boot and shoe trade built Kettering in the nineteenth century, and those workers’ terraces sit on suspended timber rather than concrete. Semis are the commonest type across NN14, NN15 and NN16, with detached houses close behind. Expect to level old boards before anything goes down over them.

Boards over a ventilated void live with the year: an NN16 floor takes up moisture through a wet autumn and gives it back once the heating comes on. Leave the packs standing where the floor is to go, and keep a real gap at the skirting.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Kettering

  • 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.
  • Stop at the extension door Solid oak is fixed to timber. Where the semi's kitchen or extension sits on concrete, the solid floor ends at that threshold and an engineered board takes over.
  • 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 Kettering: questions, answered

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

How do I look after a solid oak floor in an older Kettering 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 is best for Kettering homes?

On the suspended timber under a St Michael terrace, choose engineered wood ahead of solid. A solid plank has to be nailed down into nineteenth-century joists, while an engineered board floats over the levelled base and leaves those boards undisturbed.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Kettering?

Yes. We deliver across Kettering and Northamptonshire from our UK warehouse, including the NN14, NN15 and NN16 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 Kettering?

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