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Newport · South Wales

Waterproof Flooring in Newport

The floors on this page are the ones the manufacturer lists as waterproof: the rigid-core vinyl range, in plank, herringbone and tile formats, and the Berry Alloc wall panels for the walls of a shower. In Newport 83% of homes are houses, most of them terraced houses (31%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

Waterproof in Newport

Waterproof flooring in Newport: what the housing says

The Newport district counts 66,054 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a waterproof floor is specified here.

Semi-detached houses are 31% of the Newport stock, and the semi's kitchen extension and utility room are concrete floors that get wet from above and, when the damp-proof membrane has failed, from below. A rigid-vinyl floor listed as waterproof goes over them once a hygrometer reading says the slab is dry to BS 8203 practice, 75 percent relative humidity or below.

Terraced houses are 31% of the homes in Newport, and in a terrace the wet rooms are the back kitchen and a bathroom that was often added later, sometimes on the ground floor. Both are the rooms for a floor listed as waterproof, and both are the rooms where the base has a history: Approved Document C asks a ground floor to resist moisture from below, and an old slab may not. The base is tested before the floor is laid.

of households rent privately (14.0% in 2011)
16.7%
live in a flat or maisonette
16.6%
postcode districts we deliver to
4
waterproof floors in our range
41

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Newport (W06000022) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Compare the waterproof range

The floors listed as waterproof are the 36 BML rigid-core vinyl products, from BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring to the BML Herringbone Light Oak SPC and the BML Black Slate SPC Click Floor Tile. For the walls of a shower, the five Berry Alloc Wall & Water Shower Panels, 600 x 2400 mm and listed as waterproof; the panel guide sets out what that listing covers. Porcelain tiles are not listed with the attribute and are covered on their own pages.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Grey-brown Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Chocolate Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Vintage Fumed Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Black Slate 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 Dark Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML European Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible

Room by room

Waterproof in Newport, room by room

  • Room

    Hallways

    In a Newport terrace the hall is a corridor the whole house passes through, from the front door to the kitchen at the back. SPC stands up to that traffic without the swelling a timber board risks where wet coats drip against the wall.
    Hallway flooring in Newport

Our South Wales delivery covers: Maindee, Caerleon and Bettws and the NP postcode area

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Local fact sheet

Newport's homes, by the numbers

Newport in the 2021 census: 66,054 households, 83% houses, 17% flats.

Newport's flats are the part of the town this page's terrace advice does not reach, and they were built as flats: purpose-built blocks outnumber the ones carved out of older houses by better than six to one. In a Bettws, Lliswerry or Malpas block nothing under the floor resembles a terraced ground floor.

Terraces and semis run neck and neck across Newport, a legacy of the docks and steel years, with detached homes a smaller share. Over a third of the stock is rented, split between social and private landlords. Under the terraced ground floors is suspended timber that wants levelling before anything goes down.

An Alway block floor is concrete cast between flats, with no outside air moving beneath it, so the moisture a plank meets rises from inside the flat: showers, cooking, washing dried on an airer, all of it peaking in the shut-window months.

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

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Newport

  • The listing is the product's A floor listed as waterproof does not make a room waterproof. The base under it and the sealing at the edges do.
  • Test the slab A hygrometer under a sealed box, dry at 75 percent relative humidity or below in BS 8203 practice, before any floor is laid over concrete.
  • Pooling water is wiped The MMFA cleaning guidance for multilayer floors: low-moisture cleaning, no standing water left on the surface.
  • The kitchen slab in a semi The rear kitchen or extension slab of an interwar semi is the wet one: no membrane, or a failed one. The hygrometer reading before the floor, not the listing on the box.
  • The old membrane An old ground-floor slab may have no damp-proof membrane. The reading tells you; the floor above it will not fix it.

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Questions

Waterproof flooring in Newport: questions, answered

Which floors are actually listed as waterproof?

The rigid-core vinyl range, all 36 products, and the Berry Alloc wall panels. The listing is the manufacturer's and refers to the product; how well a room in Newport stays dry depends on the base and the edges.

Is a waterproof floor enough for a Newport bathroom?

It is the right floor, and it is not the whole answer. The base has to be dry, the edges at the bath and the door threshold sealed as the fitting instructions say, and the walls of a shower dealt with separately, which is what the panels are for.

Are porcelain tiles waterproof?

Porcelain is fired dense enough that water does not soak in, and the tile guides explain the water-absorption figures the manufacturers publish. In this range the attribute "waterproof" is listed on the vinyl and the wall panels, so the tiles sit on their own pages.

Can I order flooring samples to my Newport address?

Samples reach any NP10, NP18, NP19 or NP20 address, yes. Lay one down the length of the room and walk it end to end: a plank judged across a narrow terrace room reads quite differently once it runs the long way in daylight.

Do you deliver waterproof flooring to Newport?

Yes. We deliver across Newport and South Wales from our UK warehouse, including the NP10, NP18, NP19 and NP20 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 waterproof sample before ordering in Newport?

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