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Winchester · Hampshire

Solid Wood Flooring in Winchester

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 Winchester 83% of homes are houses, most of them detached houses (36%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

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Solid Wood in Winchester

Solid Wood flooring in Winchester: what the housing says

The Winchester district counts 51,715 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 36% of the homes in Winchester, 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 67% in Winchester, 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 Winchester 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)
17.6%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.7%
postcode districts we deliver to
4
solid wood floors in our range
15

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Winchester (E07000094) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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The solid wood range for Winchester 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

Room by room

Solid Wood in Winchester, room by room

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    Village kitchens at Alresford and Twyford

    Out towards Colden Common, Itchen Valley and the Candovers no designation stands in the way and the job is purely technical. A kitchen there takes porcelain tiles where the base is solid, or SPC where the ground floor is still timber and wants levelling.
    Kitchen flooring in Winchester
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Our Hampshire delivery covers: Weeke, Stanmore and Badger Farm and the SO postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Winchester's homes, by the numbers

Winchester in the 2021 census: 51,715 households, 82% houses, 17% flats.

Winchester covers SO21, SO22 and SO23 — St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, Harewood, Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, Alresford and Itchen Valley, and Oakley and the Candovers. It is a district of Hampshire. Ownership was 65.6% at the 2021 census and private renting 17.6%. Winchester is the one place on this list where the first flooring question is almost always a legal one rather than a technical one: the city has an exceptionally large historic core, and in a listed building or a conservation area original boards cannot be lifted without consent. Establish the designation before you plan the floor. Where consent is not an issue, the subfloor beneath is usually suspended timber and wants levelling.

In Winchester the first flooring question is often legal rather than technical: the historic core is exceptionally large, and in a listed building or conservation area original boards cannot be lifted without consent. Detached houses outnumber semis and terraces, ownership is high, and the subfloor beneath is usually suspended timber.

A Winchester house has one heating system and one household deciding when it runs, so the building cools and warms as a single object. That makes the first heating season the test: bring an SO22 or SO23 house back up gradually rather than in one go.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Winchester

  • 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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Questions

Solid Wood flooring in Winchester: questions, answered

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

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

Yes, to a St Barnabas or Harewood address. Ask for the finish you would actually order rather than the range: oiled and lacquered oak photograph alike and behave nothing alike underfoot, and in a house kept for years that difference is the maintenance.

Do you deliver solid wood flooring to Winchester?

Yes. We deliver across Winchester and Hampshire from our UK warehouse, including the SO21, SO22, SO23 and SO25 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 Winchester?

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