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Peckham Homes Love a Victorian Bay Window and Hate a Draughty Floor

Best Wood Floor Fitters London has spent over twenty years saving Peckham homes from that exact problem, one laminate plank at a time, in every Victorian bay and Edwardian corner of this leafy pocket of south London. Phone 020 3322 7001 now and get the correct information about your floor, not a sales pitch.

The Need for Peckham Laminate to Resist the Elements

You want your Victorian windows and your solid floorboards, but you also want your ones in a hundred years’ time. Old and unsquared joists, uneven floors, gaps in the floorboards to let in the cold – it’s a perfect storm for these types of homes.

Fortunately, laminate flooring makes light work of both old and new, offering resistance to temperature extremes, to scuffs from all sorts of prams and furry four legged friends, and at a quarter of the cost of a solid wood floor. It can look as good as the real thing, with no one being any the wiser at your dinner party.

We’ve laid laminate in Victorian and Edwardian terraces near Half Moon Lane and flats near Peckham station, and in every property in between – no two are the same, and that’s why we want to check the condition of your floor before we give you a quote for what’s involved. Guesswork on the subject of subfloor condition is why many jobs go wrong half a year down the line.

What the Inspection Detects

Most people look into a room and give you a price. We don’t roll that way.

A true flooring inspection measures the moisture levels in the subfloor because excess moisture under laminate can cause it to warp within a matter of months, measures dips and humps because the boards click together better when they’re in a flat surface, checks skirting board heights and whether you need a new floor or if the current one can be used as a base for the new.

Jumping to the pricing without that inspection is a gamble and you shouldn’t have to take that gamble on the piece of furniture in your sitting room, but unfortunately we see it all the time, clients who ring us up in March for a cheap quote only to find that their new fitment sounds like a haunted house in July. Make sure that doesn’t happen to you and call us today.

Experienced Enough to Have Gone Wrong Once Already

This is a little more brutal honesty, but our London fitters like to be frank: it’s not that we’ve never made a mistake, it’s that we’ve already made all the mistakes we’re ever going to make, 20 years ago, so you don’t have to.

Two decades spent working in London’s older property market has given us experience in how Victorian and Edwardian housing stock varies from the more modern builds popping up in Dulwich and Bexleyheath, where the old joists sit and the old wooden skirting gets cut by hand rather than machine, so nothing’s a perfect fit. A fitter that’s come from the school of textbook numbers will measure once and hope, our fitters measure twice and adjust on site, because textbook numbers are often not what the floor they’ve used as a base actually measures out at.

That’s why we keep clients coming back for kitchens, and then hallways, and then bedrooms upstairs, because word travels fast in a street that everyone knows everyone in.

Cheap Doesn’t Mean You Cut the Corners

Let’s talk about price. Cheap and affordable are not the same thing, but we all muddle up the two words every now and then.

Affordable means that you get a good price with the use of proper underlay, the right expansion gaps, and scotia that actually suits your skirting boards, and cheap means that your new board floors sound like a haunted house every time you walk across them because someone’s left out the underlay to save an hour. We price our laminate installation to stand up against anyone else in south London, but unlike many others, we don’t go to bed that night thinking we’ve written a line item in the quote for “miscellaneous,” when that’s exactly what your new floor’s going to be – hollow when you walk on it. What we quote is what we’re going to deliver, and that shouldn’t be an achievement of this trade, but so often is.

Your Peckham Installation

Booking starts with a phone call, not a fillable form to hide away in the internet. Call 020 3322 7001 today and get on the schedule within days.

Inspection comes next. Someone comes to the house to check the current condition of the subfloor, ask questions about what you want from a new floor, and make suggestions on the type of laminate that will suit your needs and your budget, without upselling you to a range you don’t need. You will get no pressure.

Installation usually takes a day or two, depending on how many rooms you need doing and whether the old flooring needs to come out first, but someone arrives with a smile on his face, takes all your furniture away and covers your walls, and then sweeps up when he’s finished – because nobody in the world wants to find sawdust in their teapot.

Is Laminate Worth It on a Rented Family Home?

It absolutely is. We all want the soft feeling of carpet under our toes, but kids and pets stand on that carpet more than they do you, and the instant you start talking to clients you realise that no matter how much you spend on the floors, you still hate the carpet that’s in the house. It costs less up front than solid wood flooring, and handles everything your four-legged child can throw at it – if your landlord asks, and we highly recommend you ask, then a new laminate floor offers all the same warmth, durability and cost-savings.

What we don’t know is how many loans have gone into the pile of the new dresser or how many dishes have gone into the new virtual sink of the new dishwasher, but we do know that laminate looks great in millions of homes that have a crowded room when the new job gets done. And since we buy in bulk, we put that cheap price on quality installation, so you get a new professional fit job at a price that competes with most other fitters in London. The two go hand in hand.

We’re Not Doing One Job in Every Street

Word gets around. Customers recommend us to others, and others come back to us for another room, and another, until we’re doing half the street’s homes or more. That kind of repeat business only happens if a client has a good experience the first time round, and each house gets the right quantity of work for the right price, with a proper quote the first time, and someone that answers the phone when questions are raised three weeks down the road. We’re not chasing one job in each street or pushing new business every week; we want a reputation for happy customers in every household.

Call Peckham Now and Book Your Inspection

Even getting a new plank in your floor takes time, and each additional plank’s a new source of warping and squeaking. Book your appointment now by calling 020 3322 7001 and come on the schedule early.

You can also check out our laminates and book online at https://flooringfitterslondon.org.uk/ where you can get all the photos you want. Peckham homes have loved their Victorian and Edwardian street corners for a hundred years. We want to love your street corners for a hundred years more, with a proper inspection and honest price that gets it right the first time.