
Delivery to Cambridge
We deliver across Cambridgeshire. Most in-stock orders reach Cambridge within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Ely, Newmarket, Huntingdon and St Neots.
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Cambridge · Cambridgeshire
A floor over underfloor heating has to let heat through and stay flat while it does; 107 of the 122 floors in the range with the attribute are listed as compatible, and the ones that are not are the solid oak boards. In Cambridge roughly one home in 3 is a flat (35%), so sound through the floor matters alongside the base under it.
Underfloor Heating in Cambridge
The Cambridge district counts 52,472 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a underfloor heating floor is specified here.
Flats are 35% of the homes in the Cambridge district, and a new-build flat in Cambridge is heated from the floor more often than a house is. The floor over it is thin, listed as compatible, and laid on an underlay that is both rated for heating and tested for impact sound, because the lease asks for the second while the system asks for the first.
Terraced houses are 28% of the homes in Cambridge, and underfloor heating in a terrace usually arrives with the kitchen extension: a new screed at the back, radiators at the front. The floor over the heated screed is chosen from the compatible ranges, engineered oak, laminate or rigid vinyl, and the floor at the front can be the same board, floated over the timber, so the two rooms read as one.
Private renting is 31% of households in Cambridge, and a rented home with underfloor heating needs a floor a tenant cannot damage by turning the thermostat up: the surface temperature limit EN 1264 sets, 29 °C in the room, is met by the system's controls, and the floor is chosen from the compatible ranges. Rigid vinyl and laminate are the usual specification.

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Shop Underfloor HeatingSource: ONS, Census 2021, Cambridge (E07000008) · Council conservation area register

We deliver across Cambridgeshire. Most in-stock orders reach Cambridge within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Ely, Newmarket, Huntingdon and St Neots.
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Listed as compatible: all 33 engineered boards, from Ascot Cottage Oak Wood Flooring to the 20 mm Victorian Antique Dark Oak Flooring; all 15 parquet products including the Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak; all twelve 8 mm laminates; all 36 rigid-vinyl products; and the 11 porcelain tiles. Not listed: the 15 solid oak boards and blocks, such as Windsor Solid Smooth Oak Wood Flooring.
| Range | Listed for underfloor heating |
|---|---|
| Engineered Wood | 33 of 33 |
| Solid Wood | 0 of 15 |
| Parquet | 15 of 15 |
| Laminate | 12 of 12 |
| Rigid Vinyl (SPC) | 36 of 36 |
| Porcelain Tiles | 11 of 11 |
Local fact sheet
Cambridge in the 2021 census: 52,472 households, 65% houses, 35% flats.
Close to a third of Cambridge lives in a purpose-built flat and another third rents privately, both well above the county pattern. Newer housing has gone up steadily on the northern and eastern edges, and it is built to a standard the older terraces of Romsey and Petersfield were not.
Cambridge blends medieval college architecture with cutting-edge modern developments around the Biomedical Campus and the new communities of Trumpington and Eddington. Period homes in Newnham and the city centre require flooring that respects original proportions, while new-builds often feature open-plan layouts suited to contemporary finishes.
A new, well-sealed house heated through the winter runs drier indoors than an older one, and wood responds to that. Boards fitted straight from a cold van into a warm, dry room shrink; left to settle in the room first, at the temperature it will actually be held at, they do not.
Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.
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The engineered oak, the parquet, the laminate, the rigid vinyl and the porcelain tiles are all listed as compatible. The solid oak boards are not. The commissioning cycle and the screed reading come before any of them.
Yes, engineered oak: every board in the range is listed for it. Trade guidance sets no blanket ban on wood over heating but ties it to the temperature limit, which the system's controls hold.
It is half of the thermal resistance. Floor and underlay together stay within 0.15 m²K/W; an underlay rated for heating is thin for that reason, and its tog value divided by ten gives the figure to add.
Yes — order a cut sample and keep it in the room it is for, through a heating cycle if you can. A board seen under showroom lighting for a minute tells you about colour; a board on your own floor for a week tells you about everything else.
Yes. We deliver across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire from our UK warehouse, including the CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 and CB5 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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge, each on its own page with the same housing data read for that floor.
Engineered Woodin Cambridge33 floors
Solid Woodin Cambridge15 floors
Parquetin Cambridge15 floors
LVT Vinylin Cambridge36 floors
SPC Rigid Vinylin Cambridge36 floors
Laminatein Cambridge12 floors6 materials · scroll sideways to see all
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