London wood flooring · Central London
Wood flooring across Westminster, from NW1, NW8 and SW1 outwards. Government, embassies and West End retail beside stucco Belgravia terraces and Church Street market flats, and that is what shapes every quote we write here.
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. |
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 Westminster
What our crews walk into in Westminster is grade-listed stucco terraces, mansion blocks, peabody estates and prime new-build around victoria, and the mix changes street by street — Belgravia (SW1), Covent Garden (WC2) and Fitzrovia (W1) each behave differently on the day.
Parking is the job before the job here: congestion charge, ulez, dense cpzs operating to 18:30 and beyond — most jobs need a suspended bay or dispensation. Locally that means estate parking rules, mews arches with height limits and listed staircases requiring protection and pedestrianised piazza with timed vehicle access only, and narrow stairs above shops. Part of Westminster sits inside the Congestion Charge zone, so the charge is quoted as its own line rather than hidden in the labour rate.
Leases across Westminster 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.
Westminster took its present shape because grew from the abbey and royal court; the grosvenor and portman estates laid out the stucco squares still standing today.
Scope
Method
Step 1
Moisture meter run on any solid or ground-floor base before ordering, because engineered and solid boards react differently to residual damp in a concrete slab.
Step 2
Boards left in the room for 48 hours before fitting so they settle to the room's humidity rather than move after they're laid.
Step 3
Floating, glued or secret-nailed depending on the board, the subfloor and whether there's underfloor heating beneath.
Step 4
A gap run at every wall and threshold and covered with beading, sized for the room so the floor has somewhere to move in summer.
Step 5
Beading fitted, door bars set at thresholds, and all off-cuts and packaging removed.
Coverage
Also in this borough
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.
Engineered board, floating fit, per m² starts at £38 in Westminster, 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. Part of the borough is inside the Congestion Charge zone, so a £15 daily charge is added as its own line when the job falls inside the charging hours.
We cover the whole borough: NW1, NW8, SW1, SW7, W1, W2, W9, WC1 and WC2. On the ground that includes Belgravia, Covent Garden, Fitzrovia, Knightsbridge, Maida Vale and Marylebone.
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.
Congestion Charge, ULEZ, dense CPZs operating to 18:30 and beyond — most jobs need a suspended bay or dispensation. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with Westminster City Council and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. Grade-listed stucco terraces, mansion blocks, Peabody estates and prime new-build around Victoria 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 £5m 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 Westminster City Council 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 Westminster 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 Westminster, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
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Send a few details and you get a written quote for your Westminster address, with permits and charges shown separately.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
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