Wood Floor Installation
Wood Floor Installation Service
Wood flooring is timeless, providing any residential or commercial space with a classic look. Wood flooring goes with any interior design, whether it’s modern, traditional, or exotic. When you decide to add new wood flooring to your home or office, you want it to look exceptional. Choosing the right flooring is essential, but so is installation. When done incorrectly, wood floor installation can expose your floor to more potential damage, affect its performance and safety, and shorten its lifespan. As flooring experts based in Walthamstow in North London, Horizontal Matters provides premium wood floor installation. We service all of London, as well as Essex and Hertfordshire, always providing exceptional customer care and attention to detail.
Over 30 Years Experience
For more than three decades, we’ve helped customers all over London transform their living and working spaces. Our expert advice, commitment to excellent customer service, and competitive pricing on flooring and flooring services have made us a top flooring company in North London.
Wood Flooring Fitting
Fitting a wood floor properly requires extreme care and attention, as one simple mistake can easily put the flooring at risk of damage. Our wood floor fitters have worked in homes, offices, shops, schools, restaurants, and other commercial properties across London, fitting wood floors in complicated and sometimes challenging properties. We’re also experienced carrying out large-scale installations, whether for a public building or a block of apartments. As specialists in wood flooring and flooring installation, we always aim to provide high-quality services with every installation installed to the highest standard.
Wood Floor Installation Process
Our process for wood floor installation is streamlined so that we disrupt your daily life as little as possible and let you enjoy your new wood flooring as soon as you can. We start by visiting your property to take measurements and carry out other assessments. Once we understand the full scope of the project and after we’ve offered our expert advice on wood floor installation services, we provide you with our quote. Depending on your schedule we can quote to arrange the fitting to be completed in one go or do multiple rooms over the course of several visits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Wood & Laminate Floors
Yes. There are many sound reducing underlays on the market which can be incorporated into the installation. These will offer a sound reduction of between 10 to 43 decibels.
Most manufacturers’ guarantees would be invalid if new underlay is not used.
Yes, but in most cases for wood it must be an engineered product, and you must use an appropriate underlay specifically designed for the purpose.
This would be due to excessive moisture. If you are using a mop to clean your floor ensure it is well wrung out before you start.
All wooden floors must be laid with room for expansion. There are various ways of concealing the expansion gap and we can happily show you all the various options.
Unless great care is taken with a wooden floor it is very likely to scratch. If you have a ‘shoes-off’ policy in your house this would reduce the likelihood of scratches, as will a strong doormat to catch loose grit at the entrance. In the case of laminates, they are highly scratch resistant.
Most wooden floors are more or less maintenance free but you should always follow the manufacturers recommended guidelines for maintaining your floor.
Carpets
‘Tracking’, as it is known, may occur in high traffic areas, and will depend on the type of carpet you select. Carpets that are denser are less likely to track. To reduce the likelihood of this occurring it is recommended that carpets are vacuumed twice a week to lift the pile, and we also recommend that you have your carpet professionally cleaned at least once a year.
The average life span is 7 years although there are a lot of new carpets on the market that give a 10 year guarantee.
Depending on the type of carpet being installed either plywood or hardboard can be applied to the floorboards prior to your new carpet being fitted.
Yes, you can but low tog underlays must be used which will allow the heat to penetrate through to your room.
There are specialist underlays available that reduce this type of noise and we would be happy to provide advice to you if this is a concern.
Most manufacturers’ guarantees would be invalid if new underlay is not used.
Yes, you can.
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