London wood flooring · Central London
We work in Hackney every week — warehouse conversions, georgian terraces and marshland parks — shoreditch at one end, stamford hill at the other. Wood flooring is priced against that reality, not a national average.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineered board, floating fit, per m² | £38 | By area | Click-lock boards float over underlay with an expansion gap; quickest method and the most forgiving of a slightly uneven subfloor. |
| Engineered board, glued down, per m² | £48 | By area | Full-spread adhesive fixes the board to the subfloor, which is needed over underfloor heating and gives a firmer feel underfoot. |
| Solid board, secret-nailed, per m² | £55 | By area | Each board is nailed through the tongue into the joists or battens beneath; slower than floating and needs the subfloor and joist spacing checked first. |
| Acoustic underlay upgrade, per m² | £8 | By area | A higher-rated underlay to meet a lease's impact-sound requirement, common in converted flats above another flat. |
| Moisture-resistant DPM and screed check, per visit | £90 | 1–2 hrs | A damp-proof membrane test is run before any board goes down on a solid ground-floor slab — skipping it is how a floor cups within a year. |
| Uplift and dispose of old flooring, per m² | £9 | By area | Old carpet, laminate or failed flooring lifted and taken to a licensed transfer station with a waste transfer note. |
Prices are fitting labour for boards you supply or we can order at cost. Underlay, beading and expansion-gap spacers are included; skirting removal and refitting is quoted per room if the boards run under it. A moisture check on any ground-floor solid subfloor is strongly recommended and priced separately so it is never skipped to save time. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised.
Working in Hackney
The stock in Hackney is warehouse lofts, london fields victorian terraces, big la estates and olympic-era new-build, and the mix changes street by street — Clapton (E5), Dalston (E8) and De Beauvoir Town (N1) each behave differently on the day.
London Borough of Hackney sets the constraint: extensive low-traffic neighbourhoods with modal filters, seven-day cpzs and narrow one-way terraces. Locally that means narrow terraced streets, permit bays and marsh-side roads that flood after heavy rain and kingsland road red route, market-day congestion and narrow permit-only side streets. Hackney sits outside the Congestion Charge zone, so only ULEZ applies to the van and the quote is that much simpler.
Leases across Hackney restrict drilling into party and structural walls. We check what the wall actually is before we start, and where consent is needed we say so rather than fixing anyway.
A market-garden parish absorbed by Victorian terraces, bombed heavily, rebuilt with estates, then reshaped by the creative industries. That history is why Hackney property behaves the way it does today.
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Gripper, underlay, doorbars and stairs fitted, with the old floor lifted and taken away.
Fitted and flat-pack wardrobes scribed to the wall and anchored so doors stay square.
Wardrobes, beds, desks and storage built, levelled and anchored to the wall.
TVs, mirrors, shelves and curtain poles fixed into the wall you actually have, in one visit.
Rubble, plasterboard and strip-out waste cleared with waste transfer notes issued.
Real jobs our crews have completed nearby, with the price the customer actually paid. Published with their permission.
End OF Tenancy Cleaning
Hackney
August 2026
One end of tenancy cleaning job completed in Hackney in August 2026.
£215
Oven Cleaning
Hackney
July 2026
One oven cleaning job completed in Hackney in July 2026.
End OF Tenancy Cleaning
Hackney
July 2026
4 end of tenancy cleaning jobs completed in Hackney in July 2026.
Engineered board, floating fit, per m² starts at £38 in Hackney, and the ladder runs up to £9 for the largest job on the table above. Fitting method sets the base price, and moisture readings on a ground-floor slab decide whether extra membrane work is needed before a board can go down at all. The borough is outside the Congestion Charge zone, so there is no charge to pass on — only ULEZ, which our vans are compliant with.
We cover the whole borough: E1, E2, E3, E5, E8, E9, EC2, N1, N16 and N4. On the ground that includes Clapton, Dalston, De Beauvoir Town, Hackney Central, Hackney Wick and Haggerston.
Most bookings are within a week, with an extra day built in wherever boards need to acclimatise before fitting. Central London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.
Extensive low-traffic neighbourhoods with modal filters, seven-day CPZs and narrow one-way terraces. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Hackney and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. Warehouse lofts, London Fields Victorian terraces, big LA estates and Olympic-era new-build is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.
Fitters carry £1m public liability cover, and old flooring is removed under our upper-tier waste carrier registration with a transfer note supplied. Acoustic underlay is specified to the impact-sound rating most leasehold flats require for a hard floor above another home. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Hackney tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.
One fitter for a floating fit in a single room; two for glued or secret-nailed floors and any job over 25m² in a day. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Hackney postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.
Levelling a subfloor with more than 5mm of dip over 2m, which needs a self-levelling screed quoted separately, Underfloor heating installation itself — we fit the correct floor over an existing system, not the system and Structural repair to rotten joists or battens found once old flooring is lifted. If something on that list turns up in Hackney, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
Real jobs our crews have completed nearby, with the price the customer actually paid. Published with their permission.
End OF Tenancy Cleaning
Hackney
August 2026
One end of tenancy cleaning job completed in Hackney in August 2026.
£215
Oven Cleaning
Hackney
July 2026
One oven cleaning job completed in Hackney in July 2026.
End OF Tenancy Cleaning
Hackney
July 2026
4 end of tenancy cleaning jobs completed in Hackney in July 2026.
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