A badly fitted floor doesn’t make itself known immediately. It lurks. Six months, maybe a year, then the gaps start to open up and the boards are lifting at the edges as if trying to escape.

Best Flooring Fitters London have been repairing DIY jobs since the stone age – and frankly we’d rather do it properly the first time.

Top 3 Costly DIY Mistakes (That Floor Will Make) DIY flooring videos are utterly misleading. Clamp the boards together, return for another hour later in the day, be proud of how little you spent. Doesn’t quite work like that. Subfloors are often warped.

A level floor to the naked eye can have dips of three millimeters or more, unseen until the laminate goes down and starts creaking underfoot like an ancient ship.

Professional fitters measure this properly using moisture meter and laser level before a single board is touched. Ignore it and you’ll be replacing the whole lot within two years. And then there’s the moisture.

Kennington’s environment isn’t kind to timber or laminate. Water creeping across an unsealed subfloor will bow the boards, no matter the pattern you plan from Pinterest, costing you hundreds of pounds down the line. We check moisture levels as standard because a beautiful floor is worthless over a damp base.

DIY Designer panels can be oddly shaped.

Many homes in Kennington, despite all appearing to be the same footprint, have wildly differing load bearing qualities and moisture content. We adapt our underlay, bracing and fitting method to suit the building rather than sticking to a set of rules learned in a weekend. That familiarity accumulated since 2003 is what shows up in a Beading Gaps isn’t just something you have to learn to spend more, It’s what makes a floor that lasts twenty years instead of three. Expanding And Contracting Floors move.

It’s how they work.

Summertime hot, boards can expand sideways up to a centimetre or more. Wintertime makes them contract again. If there’s no 10mm gap fitted all around the edge, that movement is going straight up the middle.

Getting the expansion gap right, and neatly disguising it behind a strip of beading or skirting is instinct for Wood Floor Fitters London teams. It’s that or a deformed floor 15 years down the line. 20 Years Fitting Experience That little voice in your head telling you that ‘little thing you did yourself’ is not worth repeating comes from… experience.

Which side of the boards to run if you want to make a long narrow hall look wider.

How to replace a join between two materials, so it’s less visible to guests. How much extra support you need when you’re fitting a piano in the corner of a living room. Think of the worst job you’ve done, then imagine you repeated it in every conceivable scenario. Now you’ve got the right idea.

Tools Count.

A Fitters Van Is Half Of The Workshop A Moisture tester, laser, eye for precision, proper tool for cutting, don’t trust a hand saw and a prayer. Precision cuts around sockets, pipes and doorways takes practice, and the right blade for the job.

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A properly fitted floor won’t be needing replacing in 18 months.

Won’t need emergency repairs after a damp winter. Won’t need to be reset after a careless jumping pet tears a few tiles out. We stick to honest fair quote which covers labour and materials at once, with nothing ‘up ’til the quote arrives’, no hidden extras. Tackle that against spending double on materials because your DIY effort went wrong and you’ll quickly see why pros are worth every penny.

Local Is Why Londoners Come Back Home to Fit Floors London houses are incredibly varied.

A shop-flat one year, quiet cul de sac the next, building status changes what kind of subfloor you’re fitting over and where. We tailor underlay type and fitting methodology to the particular property not copying a set of stock procedures from online. Having worked all over Kennington, from Bermondsey to Belsize Park, means that we anticipate problems before they manifest rather than rely on a customer calling us back frustrated because it looked so good.

We’d rather deal with it beforehand. Popularly Asked Questions Is it worth getting a professional in for laminate? Yes.

Our own installers will measure and check the floor level before one plank has been laid, so you don’t get a warped unhappy floor.

Prices for our affordable laminate flooring installation across Kennington are highly competitive once you take tools, wasted materials and time spent figuring out in a weekend into account. Most jobs take around a day and a half, get done properly and avoid your entire weekend on your knees getting splinters. A floor one of the first things you’ll notice whether you like it or not. Showing up first thing in the morning crossing your toes first thing in the morning, having guests spend the evening walking on tiptoes to avoid distracting lumps, There’s no comparison for the peace of mind of living with one that’s been done properly.

Call 020 3322 7001 now for a simple, honest quotation available most days, or visit flooringfitterslondon.org.uk for our full range of designer wood flooring.