Flooring fitter in Whitton

Flooring for Whitton homes

Whitton is one of the more architecturally consistent areas Alex covers — the whole parish was largely built up in a short burst during the 1930s, once Whitton station opened in 1930 and the Great Chertsey Road followed a few years later. The result is street after street of three-bedroom semis with the bay windows and generous gardens typical of that era, plus a well-preserved 1930s high street running through the middle of it.

That means the subfloor question here is fairly predictable. A 1930s semi can have suspended timber or solid concrete ground floors, and sometimes both in the same house, so the first job is finding out which. Uneven floorboards are usually ply boarded, and concrete that has settled unevenly over ninety-odd years is levelled with a self-levelling compound. Any concrete floor has to be dry enough before a floor is glued to it, and the floor maker's instructions set the limit.

LVT and laminate suit busy family homes well, and engineered wood is a good fit for front reception rooms where owners want a more traditional look than the original 1930s parquet strip. Upstairs floors, over timber joists as usual for the era, are usually more straightforward.

Whitton's residential streets are generally quieter than its neighbours, with driveways or off-street parking common outside the semis, which makes access for the van easier here than almost anywhere else on Alex's patch — useful to know if you're weighing up timescales. Whitton High Street, one of the better-preserved 1930s high streets in London, still has that same tell-tale consistency of era running through it. Whitton borders Twickenham to the south-east and Isleworth to the north-east, with St Margarets a short run beyond, and he's in and out of all three regularly, so a Whitton job rarely means a special trip on its own.