Skip to main content
Samples available UK-wide delivery
Speak to an expert 020 3858 0353 Pro Portal
My Account Welcome back Sign in for faster checkout, order tracking and saved details.
Sign in Create account
  • Track orders & deliveries
  • Faster checkout with saved details
  • Order history & easy re-orders
Need help? Speak to our team →

Your Basket

0

Your basket is empty

Browse our editorial collections and find your perfect floor.

Browse Collections
Popular routes
Engineered Wood LVT Parquet Order Samples
Subtotal £0.00
Shipping & discounts calculated at checkout
View cart Secure checkout
SSL encrypted — safe and secure

Mansfield · Nottinghamshire

Solid Wood Flooring in Mansfield

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 Mansfield 91% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (43%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Shop Solid WoodOrder samples

Solid Wood in Mansfield

Solid Wood flooring in Mansfield: what the housing says

The Mansfield district counts 48,031 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 43% of the Mansfield stock, the common layout in Mansfield 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 Mansfield, 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.

Shop the range

All 15 solid wood floors
of households rent privately (13.6% in 2011)
18.9%
live in a flat or maisonette
9.4%
postcode districts we deliver to
NG18 to NG19
solid wood floors in our range
15

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Mansfield (E07000174) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Order samplesSpeak to our team · 020 3858 0353

The range

The solid wood range for Mansfield homes

Browse all floors

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 Mansfield, room by room

  • Room

    Pit housing and the estates that followed

    Mansfield’s housing came out of the coalfield — homes built for the pits, then the estates after them — and what lies under nearly all of it is a solid base rather than joists. There is nothing to pack and no void to ventilate; read the membrane, and if it holds, a laminate floats over the top on an underlay.
    Laminate flooring in Mansfield
More rooms

Our Nottinghamshire delivery covers: Sutton-in-Ashfield, Forest Town and Mansfield Woodhouse and the NG postcode area

See it on the map

Local fact sheet

Mansfield's homes, by the numbers

Mansfield in the 2021 census: 48,031 households, 90% houses, 9% flats.

Mansfield is NG18 and NG19 — Central, Bancroft, Berry Hill, Brick Kiln, Carr Bank, Grange Farm, with Edwinstowe and Clipstone to the east. It is a district of Nottinghamshire. Private renting rose 5.3 points between the two censuses to 18.9%, one of the steepest increases we see, while ownership fell to 64.0% and social renting sits at 16.4%. Mansfield's housing is largely former coalfield stock — pit housing and post-war estates — which usually means a solid ground floor rather than joists. Combine the two facts and the specification writes itself: a floating floor over a checked damp-proof membrane, with the wear layer chosen for a property that may change hands.

Former coalfield housing shapes Mansfield: semis dominate the mix by a wide margin across Central, Berry Hill, Carr Bank and Grange Farm, and the ground floor is more often solid than joisted. The membrane under a solid floor is worth checking before a floating floor goes over it.

Ground temperature under a Mansfield Woodhouse or Sutton-in-Ashfield estate slab moves with the season rather than the night, so the whole ground floor holds much the same temperature corner to corner. Whatever goes over it expands and contracts slowly, over months, evenly across the room.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Mansfield

  • 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.

Bestsellers

More solid wood, delivered to Mansfield

See the whole range

Reviews

Trusted by homeowners across the UK

★★★★★4.6/5Trustpilot
★★★★★4.9/5Google

Questions

Solid Wood flooring in Mansfield: questions, answered

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

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

Yes, and order the underlay sample with the board. What arrives at your NG18 or NG19 door shows you grain and finish; the layer beneath it decides how the floor sounds underfoot and how warm the slab feels. Order the pair together.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Mansfield?

Yes. We deliver across Mansfield and Nottinghamshire from our UK warehouse, including the NG18 and NG19 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 Mansfield?

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

All ranges

More flooring pages for Mansfield

Every range and room for Mansfield, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.

5 materials · scroll sideways to see all

7 rooms · scroll sideways to see all

6 needs · scroll sideways to see all

The same range nearby

Solid Wood flooring nearby

Distances are straight-line miles from Mansfield. Each link opens the solid wood page for that town.

ChesterfieldNottinghamDerbySheffieldRotherhamLoughboroughDoncasterMansfield

United KingdomNottinghamshireMansfieldSolid Wood

151 towns and cities, 24 county guides, one map.

See every area we deliver toOrder a sample

Order samples£1.99 each · up to 10 per order

Order
Newsletter

New ranges and offers. Hear it first.

Unsubscribe anytime