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Tamworth · Staffordshire

Utility Room Flooring in Tamworth

A utility room takes a washing machine, a dryer, muddy boots and the dog, and its floor is chosen the way a kitchen's is, only harder: rigid vinyl listed as waterproof, or porcelain tile. In Tamworth 87% of homes are houses, most of them semi-detached houses (39%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

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Utility Room in Tamworth

Utility Room flooring in Tamworth: what the housing says

The Tamworth district counts 32,895 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a utility room floor is specified here.

Semi-detached houses are 39% of the Tamworth stock, and the semi's utility is usually the old garage or a slice of the extension, on a slab that was not laid for a living room. A rigid-vinyl floor bridges small unevenness in it; a tile needs it levelled first. The 305 x 610 mm SPC click tiles are the stone look without the levelling job.

Owner-occupation is 68% in Tamworth, and an owner fitting out a utility in Tamworth is choosing between a tile that matches the kitchen and a vinyl that is warmer to stand on while the machine runs; both are listed for the underfloor heating a new utility often has.

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of households rent privately (11.0% in 2011)
14.1%
live in a flat or maisonette
13.0%
postcode districts we deliver to
B77 to B79
utility room floors in our range
26

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Tamworth (E07000199) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

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The SPC click floor tiles, BML Black Slate SPC Click Floor Tile, BML Concrete Dark Grey SPC Click Floor Tile and BML Cement Light SPC Click Floor Tile, are made for this room: a stone look, 0.55 mm wear layer, listed as waterproof, no grout. The wide planks such as BML Misty Oak SPC Wide Flooring run the kitchen floor through. In porcelain, the matt Night Lux and Luna Blanca tiles.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Herringbone European Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Vintage Fumed Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Invisible Oak SPC Floor6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Concrete Dark Grey SPC Click Floor Tile6.5mm x 305mm x 610mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Rustic Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Grey Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML White Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Grey-beige Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible

Local fact sheet

Tamworth's homes, by the numbers

Tamworth in the 2021 census: 32,895 households, 87% houses, 13% flats.

Tamworth is B77, B78 and B79 — Castle, Bolehall, Belgrave, Amington, Dordon, and out to Baddesley and Grendon. It is a district of Staffordshire, and like Redditch it shares the B postcode with Birmingham while belonging to a different county entirely. Ownership was 67.0% at the 2021 census with social renting at 18.0%. Tamworth expanded substantially under a town development agreement from the 1960s, taking overspill population from Birmingham, so much of the housing is of that period and sits on a concrete ground floor. The medieval core around the castle is the exception. Which side of that divide your property falls on decides whether you are checking a membrane or levelling boards.

Houses take close to nine in ten of the stock across B77, B78 and B79, so a floor going into Bolehall or Wilnecote answers to the building and to the household, and to nothing else. No ceiling below it, no lease clause above it, no acoustic layer somebody else has specified.

Heating finds the difference between the two Tamworths. Concrete warms slowly and lets go slowly, holding an even temperature through the day; the boarded floors of the old town by the castle follow the room instead, warm by evening and cold again by morning.

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

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Before you order in Tamworth

  • The oldest slab in the house A utility is often on it. A hygrometer reading, dry to BS 8203 practice, before any floor.
  • Edges sealed, appliances on a tray A floor listed as waterproof keeps a leak on the surface; a sealed edge keeps it off the wall.
  • Matt over polished A utility floor is wet more often than a kitchen's. A matt tile or a textured vinyl for the footing.
  • The old scullery slab A semi's utility is often the old scullery, on the oldest slab in the house. The hygrometer reading first.
  • Wear layer for the wet end A utility floor kept for years takes the 0.55 mm vinyl or the matt porcelain; both are cleaned with low moisture and no standing water.

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Utility Room flooring in Tamworth: questions, answered

What floor should go in a utility room in Tamworth?

Rigid vinyl listed as waterproof, in the plank or the click-tile format, or a matt porcelain tile. Both cope with a leak and a wet mop; the vinyl floats over an old slab, the tile needs it levelled. The base has to be dry under either.

Can a washing machine sit on a click vinyl floor?

A floating floor carries an appliance; what it should not do is be pinned by it at one point and expected to move elsewhere. A tray under the machine and the expansion gap kept at the walls are the two details.

Is laminate all right in a utility room?

Laminate is kept out of the rooms that get wet in this range, and a utility is one of them. The rigid vinyl gives the same look with the waterproof listing.

Can I order flooring samples to my Tamworth address?

A sample will reach any B77, B78 or B79 address. Lift a corner of the carpet before it arrives: the divide that runs through this town is invisible from the street and plain underneath, and which side you are on changes what a sample can settle.

Do you deliver utility room flooring to Tamworth?

Yes. We deliver across Tamworth and Staffordshire from our UK warehouse, including the B77, B78 and B79 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 utility room sample before ordering in Tamworth?

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