
Delivery to Torquay
We deliver across Torquay and Devon (TQ postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
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Torquay · Devon
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 Torquay roughly one home in 3 is a flat (30%), so sound through the floor matters alongside the base under it.
Solid Wood in Torquay
The Torbay district counts 62,995 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.
Flats are 30% of the homes in the Torbay district, and a flat is usually the wrong place for a solid board: the base is often concrete, the lease usually has an impact-sound clause, and a solid floor cannot be floated on an acoustic underlay. In a converted house with a timber floor and no clause, it can work; in a purpose-built block, an engineered board over acoustic underlay is the right answer and the wood looks the same.
Private renting is 27% of households in Torbay, and solid oak is a landlord's choice only where the property is held for the long term: the floor costs more to fit than it does to buy, and its advantage, that it can be refinished for decades, pays off over tenancies rather than within one. For a portfolio with a shorter horizon, the engineered range is the usual specification.

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All 15 solid wood floorsSource: ONS, Census 2021, Torbay (E06000027) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

We deliver across Torquay and Devon (TQ postcodes) from our UK warehouse. Most in-stock orders arrive within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode.
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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
Torbay in the 2021 census: 62,995 households, 70% houses, 30% flats.
Torquay is TQ1 and TQ2 — Tormohun, Ellacombe, Wellswood, St Marychurch, Shiphay, Barton with Watcombe, and Cockington with Chelston. It sits in Torbay, a unitary authority. Two figures stand out: private renting is 26.6%, the second highest we deliver to, while social renting is only 8.3%, the lowest on this list. Torquay is a resort town and a large part of the housing is Victorian and Edwardian villas subdivided into flats and holiday lets. In a converted flat the floor is the ceiling below, so impact sound insulation comes first; and in a property that turns over frequently, the wear layer matters more than the species.
Semi-detached, terraced and detached houses take roughly equal shares of Torquay’s stock, and private renting is unusually high on top of that. Much of the Victorian and Edwardian villa stock across TQ1 and TQ2 was subdivided long ago, so in a flat the floor you lay is the ceiling of the home below.
A divided villa in Ellacombe heats by the week: one flat warm, the one beneath it shut and cold. Across TQ1, treat that floor as a boundary rather than a surface.
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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 Torquay 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.
Samples reach any Torquay address, and the useful one is often not the flat itself: an owner living out of the bay, or an agent holding keys across TQ1. Put your own address on the sample request and the property's on what follows it.
Yes. We deliver across Torquay and Devon from our UK warehouse, including the TQ1 and TQ2 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 Torquay 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
Every range and room for Torquay, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
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