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Best Flooring Fitters London: Stockwell Style Guide

Picking the Right Flooring Style for Your Flat. The mixed housing stock around Stockwell means there’s no such thing as a typical apartment. Georgian terraces and medieval Parish bound parts of new town sit across the street from brutalist housing estates. Both can be neighbored by glassy new build developments with high spec internal finishes. Choosing … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Stockwell Style Guide →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Planning Your Herne Hill Job

How to Plan Your Herne Hill Flooring Job   Planning the order of any project sounds easier than the doing of it. Measure room, choose colour, book in a team. Except it doesn’t quite work out like that, not least in Herne Hill where half the houses have quirks that no-one warns you about until … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Planning Your Herne Hill Job →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Period Property Floors

Elephant & Castle Is Brimming with Period Treasures Concealed Under Floor Coverings Enter many refurbished flats in Elephant & Castle and discover lofty ceilings, original cornicing, perhaps a fireplace long abandoned since WWII, and beneath it all a flooring choice that doesn’t suit the space. Think grey laminate laid over a Victorian floorboard design. Vinyl … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Period Property Floors →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Kennington Fitting Errors

Kennington Home Life Creates Strange Mix of Houses Kennington Home Life Creates Strange Mix of Houses. Georgian Squares Needing a Park, Former Councils near the Oval, Converted Flats squeezed into the attics of Kennington Road shops. Each has its own formula for getting a flooring wrong. We are Best Flooring Fitters London. Twenty years fixing … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Kennington Fitting Errors →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Peckham Cost Calculatora

What Really Affects Wood Floor Fitting Charges in Peckham Peckham’s not going to give a straightforward flat rate when you call in for a chat. Bills for warehouse conversions close to Bellenden Road come out very differently from similar labour for the Victorian terraces off Rye Lane. Ask a dozen of your neighbours what they … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Peckham Cost Calculatora →

Best Flooring Fitters London – Wood Fitters London Solid vs Engineered

The Real Camberwell Floor Debate. Camberwell Homeowners Ask Us All The Time. The short answer to solid or engineered is this. On most Camberwell jobs we price and quote, every customer instantly defaults to assuming solid is the proper choice and engineered is some kind of lower tier. Sorry if you thought that way – a … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London – Wood Fitters London Solid vs Engineered →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Subfloor Preparation in Streatham

The Streatham housing stock is a complicated beast. Old Edwardian terraces with original joists and all the quirks that come with them. Ex-council flats sitting on concrete slabs and ghosted chipboard in conversions that’s already warped. Three different subfloors, three different battles. We’re Best Flooring Fitters London, and subfloor prep is the difference between a … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Subfloor Preparation in Streatham →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Clapham North Laminate Guide

Why Clapham North Homeowners Will Choose Laminate Flooring This Year Clapham North makes a bit of a strange area. Victorian conversions bump up against shiny new build flats on the same streets just by the tube station. Every building has its quirks, that’s worth knowing before you book a laminate fitter or a wooden flooring … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Clapham North Laminate Guide →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Laminate Flooring Specialists in Brixton

Brixton Floors Take a Beating. Here’s What Twenty Years on the Job Taught Us Brixton floors face plenty. Crowds of market traders in the rain. Dog hair and mud and playground dirt. That one friend with a different-sized pair of wellies for every situation. Every time we fit flooring in a flat or a house … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Laminate Flooring Specialists in Brixton →

Best Flooring Fitters London: Herne Hill Laminate Specialists

Herne Hill is a characterful place. Victorian conversions, split-level flats, that one railways cottage hiding behind the station. Old floors? They can’t usually keep up with that character. We’re Best Flooring Fitters London and we’ve been laying laminate floors all over South London for more than twenty years now. Herne Hill calls us back, street … Continue reading Best Flooring Fitters London: Herne Hill Laminate Specialists →