Floors fitted across Twickenham, Strawberry Hill and East Twickenham

Flooring for Twickenham homes

Most of the streets around Twickenham Green, Amyand Park Road and the roads running down towards the river are lined with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many still standing on the original suspended timber floors more than a century after they were laid. Closer to the rugby ground and over towards East Twickenham the mix changes to inter-war semis and a scattering of newer riverside apartments, so the subfloor you actually get on the day varies more here than the postcode alone would suggest.

In the timber-floored terraces, creaking boards and slightly uneven joists are the usual starting point, so in these terraces a job often begins with plywood overboarding or spot levelling before a single length of herringbone or engineered oak goes down. It is that unglamorous first stage — getting the base flat and quiet — that decides whether the finished floor still looks and sounds right in ten years' time.

In the newer flats and converted maisonettes nearer the river, the request is more often LVT or laminate laid over a solid or engineered subfloor rather than old joists, and acoustic underlay matters more if there's a flat below. Garages and garden workshops are worth a mention too: a cracked, dusty concrete slab can be levelled and finished with interlocking floor tiles to make a clean, hard-wearing, usable space.

Match and event days at Twickenham Stadium bring extra traffic and parking pressure to the roads around Whitton Road, so Alex plans van access and material deliveries around the fixture list. Several roads nearer the centre and the station also run resident-permit parking during the working week, which Alex checks before confirming a fitting date. He covers the whole of TW1 and TW2, from St Margarets and East Twickenham across to Strawberry Hill, Whitton and the Teddington border.