Flooring fitter in Richmond

Flooring for Richmond homes

Richmond Hill and the roads around Richmond Green are known for their Georgian and early-Victorian townhouses — tall, narrow-fronted properties with the kind of proportions that make a wide-board or herringbone floor look right rather than fussy. Further down towards the river and around the station, the housing switches to large Victorian villas that have mostly been split into mansion flats and garden conversions.

The townhouses tend to have original, if tired, floorboards under whatever's currently down, so a lot of the work is stripping back to the original structure, checking and repairing the joists, then fitting engineered wood or herringbone that suits a period room without pretending to be reclaimed antique boards. Subfloor preparation matters more here than almost anywhere else on Alex's patch, simply because of how much history is usually hiding under the existing covering.

In the converted mansion flats it's a different problem entirely — party-floor sound transmission to the flat below is a real concern for freeholders and leases, so LVT or engineered wood over an acoustic underlay is the usual specification, and Alex always checks what the lease actually requires before quoting rather than assuming a standard build-up will do. Some of the larger conversions also have communal hallway floors that need matching to a shared, agreed standard rather than one leaseholder's own preference.

Richmond town centre and the roads nearest the river run controlled parking for most of the day, and Richmond Park traffic adds to it at weekends, so Alex schedules van access around whichever zone applies to the job. Terraced streets further from the river, around East Sheen and the roads off the A305, are a little easier for loading and give more of a straightforward job than the hill itself. Richmond faces Twickenham across the river, with Kingston a short run south through Ham and Petersham, and he quotes across all three regularly, often on the same trip.