Flooring
185 sources in the library on flooring, 40 on this page cited in a published note. Each one says what the document covers and what it is good for. Name a source to see which document it is and where to read it. One at a time. Page 2 of 5.
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Amtico
Amtico's residential FAQ on its LVT collections. It settles the four collections, which are glued down, and the wear layer and warranty of each.
Cited in Amtico & LVT Flooring: Cost & How to Choose, Vinyl Flooring: Sheet vs Tile vs LVT.
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Amtico
Amtico's warranty page. It lists warranties by collection, including Amtico First for home projects on a budget with a 15-year warranty, and Click Smart with 20 years.
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Amtico International
Amtico's installation guidelines for its acoustic-backed LVT. They settle that a subfloor may be treated as dry at 75% relative humidity or below, with a surface damp proof membrane above that.
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Amtico International
Amtico's installation guidelines for its glue-down collections. They require tiles, adhesive and subfloor to stabilise at 18-27 C for at least 24 hours, or 48 hours if stored outside that range.
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ARDEX UK
A manufacturer's product page for a levelling compound made for timber floors. It shows the product type makers offer for plywood and timber bases is fibre reinforced.
Cited in Floor Levelling & Subfloor Prep.
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ARDEX UK
A manufacturer's product page for a standard self-levelling compound. It gives foot traffic after 2 hours, floor coverings next day, and a depth of feather edge to 35 mm.
Cited in Floor Levelling & Subfloor Prep.
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Association of the European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF)
The European laminate producers' association glossary; it explains that laminate abrasion resistance is tested and assigned to abrasion classes under EN 13329.
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B&Q
B&Q marketplace listing for a 6 mm natural cork roll sold as flooring underlay, at £107.99 for 10 m² (£10.80 per m²) including VAT. It sets the top of the cork underlay supply range.
Cited in Cork Flooring Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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B&Q
B&Q product page for a 2 mm cork underlay roll covering 10 m², priced at £40, or £4 per m², including VAT. It sets the bottom of the cork underlay supply range.
Cited in Cork Flooring Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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B&Q (sold by Far East Direct UK Ltd)
A national DIY retailer's product page for a box of twenty 50 x 50 cm heavy-duty contract carpet tiles covering 5 m2. It shows £38.99, or £7.80 per m2, including VAT.
Cited in Carpet Tile Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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BAL (Building Adhesives Ltd)
A tile adhesive maker's technical note summarising BS 5385-3:2024 for timber floors. It gives the 15 mm minimum board and says plywood is no longer a direct tiling base.
Cited in Penny Floor Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Brintons Carpets
A carpet maker's underfloor heating page. It gives 1.4 to 2.3 tog for its 80/20 wool carpets and reports the Carpet Foundation and UHMA finding that under 2.5 tog combined works with UFH.
Cited in Flooring Underlay Explained.
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Contract Flooring
A flooring retailer's product page for one Amtico Spacia design. It shows £48.29 per m2 including VAT, which sets the low end of the Spacia supply band.
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Cormar Carpets
A UK carpet manufacturer's vacuuming advice: cut pile carpets suit an upright cleaner with a beater bar and brush, while loop pile carpets need the suction head only.
Cited in How to Care For Your Carpets.
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Cormar Carpets
A UK carpet maker's guide to its carpet types, warning that claws and abrasive shoes can pull out the loops of loop pile.
Cited in Carpet Types, Grades & Cost.
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Cormar Carpets
A UK carpet maker's underlay guide, recommending a thinner 9 mm underlay on stairs because it is easier to fit than 12 mm.
Cited in Carpet Types, Grades & Cost.
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Cormar Carpets
A UK carpet manufacturer's step-by-step stain treatment guide. It sets out the basic method: blot up liquid, test treatments on a hidden area, work inwards from the edge and never rub the pile.
Cited in How to Get Coffee Stains Out Carpet.
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Cormar Carpets
A UK carpet manufacturer's care and warranty guide. It advises vacuuming at least two to three times a week, blotting spills and working from the outside of a stain inwards.
Cited in How to Care For Your Carpets.
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Corticeira Amorim
Explainer from Corticeira Amorim, the largest cork processor. It confirms that cork bark is harvested every nine years without the cork oak being felled.
Cited in Cork Flooring Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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CountryLife Flooring
CountryLife Flooring publishing its own price guidance for this work. A trade supplier writing about what it charges is evidence of the market rate and not a quotation, and the cost book treats it as one figure among several rather than on its own
Cited in Best Flooring for Kitchens, Bathrooms & Living Rooms, Cork Flooring Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Engineered Wood Flooring: Cost & Pros/Cons, Flooring Options Compared: Engineered Wood, LVT & Laminate and 4 more.
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EGGER
EGGER's laminate installation guide sets the subfloor flatness limit at no more than 2 mm of deviation over 1 m, with self-levelling compound for larger deviations.
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EGGER
EGGER flooring FAQ: laminate (EN 13329) marketed in Europe must carry an EN ISO 10874 use class, from 21 to 23 in homes and 31 to 34 in commercial areas.
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F. Ball and Co.
A subfloor preparation guide from F. Ball, a UK maker of flooring adhesives and surface membranes, which says that in line with British Standards a hygrometer reading above 75% RH calls for a waterproof surface membrane, such as its two-part product, before resilient floorcoverings.
Cited in Best Flooring for Kitchens, Bathrooms & Living Rooms.
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Flooring Hut
Flooring Hut's Amtico buying guide, which compares the Signature, Form and Spacia collections on specification, design choice and price.
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Flooring Superstore
A Flooring Superstore product page for engineered oak herringbone, the Ashbury range in a brushed and lacquered frosted oak. Held as a supplier's own published price for engineered herringbone board, which is what the note uses it for: the supply-only rate per square metre before fitting. A retail price from one merchant, so real but not independent.
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Flooring Superstore
A flooring retailer's product page for a 15 m pack of carpet gripper rods; its price works out at under £1 per linear metre including VAT.
Cited in Stretch Carpet Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Flooring Superstore
the retail price Flooring Superstore publishes for Imperia Oxford Oak Vinyl Flooring, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in How to Lay Vinyl & LVT Flooring, Vinyl Flooring: Sheet vs Tile vs LVT.
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Forbo Flooring Systems
Forbo's installation guide for its carpet tiles; it requires an all-over tackifier left to dry tacky, not a perimeter-only tack.
Cited in Carpet Tile Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Forbo Flooring Systems
Forbo's UK product page for Novilon domestic cushion vinyl sheet, giving its 2, 3 and 4 m roll widths and adhesive-free installation on areas up to 40 m².
Cited in Vinyl Flooring: Sheet vs Tile vs LVT.
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Forbo Flooring Systems
Forbo's carpet tile range page, which recommends a carpet tackifier and offers an adhesive-free tab system; it settles the two usual fixing routes.
Cited in Carpet Tile Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Forbo Flooring Systems
Forbo's product page for a current UK commercial carpet tile, giving its 50 x 50 cm format; it settles the standard tile size.
Cited in Carpet Tile Installation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Havwoods
A UK engineered wood flooring supplier's bonded installation guide; it requires tongue-and-groove floors to be fully bonded where underfloor heating is present.
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Havwoods
A UK engineered wood flooring supplier's floating installation guide; it sets a minimum perimeter expansion gap of 12 mm under 25 m² and 15 mm on larger floors.
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HSS Hire
A national hire firm's product page for a rotary floor scrubber-polisher; it gives the starting hire price that replaces the unsourced £40–£60 a day.
Cited in How to Restore Victorian Floor Tiles.
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Junckers
A solid hardwood floor maker's technical data sheet. It states that relative humidity in UK homes and commercial buildings usually runs between 35% and 65%.
Cited in Solid Wood vs Engineered Flooring.
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Junckers
Junckers' data sheet for its solid hardwood parquet adhesive. It sets a 65% RH maximum for concrete subfloors, showing the limit is lower than the 75% sometimes quoted as universal.
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Junckers
A solid hardwood floor maker's data sheet on laying its floors over underfloor heating. It warns that wood contracts when heated and that larger gaps than normal form between boards in the heating season.
Cited in Solid Wood vs Engineered Flooring.
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Junckers Ltd
A solid hardwood flooring maker's cleaning and maintenance guide. It recommends barrier matting at external doors, with an outside scraper mat and an inside absorbent mat, to keep grit and water off the floor.
Cited in How to Look After Your Wooden Floors.
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Junckers Ltd
A solid hardwood flooring maker's technical sheet on relative humidity. It states its boards are designed to operate between 35% and 65% RH, the normal range for occupied UK buildings.
Cited in How to Look After Your Wooden Floors.
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Karndean Designflooring
An LVT maker's UK fitting instructions for its glue-down tiles and planks. They require a subfloor that is flat, level and smooth, prepared with primer and smoothing compound as needed.