Areas We Cover Across Derby and Derbyshire

A floor in Swadlincote is not the same job as a floor in Belper, and the difference is almost never the covering you choose. It is what is underneath it — and that is decided by when the houses were built and what they were built on.

Knowing which kind of house you are in tells you most of what a job will involve before anybody has measured anything. Four broad families cover the whole patch.

The coalfield towns — Heanor, Ripley, Alfreton and Swadlincote — are terraces and large postwar estates on solid floors laid a long time before anyone measured for level. Levelling is part of the job far more often than not.

The old stone and cottage stock — Belper, Melbourne, Ambergate, Ashbourne — predates damp-proof membranes entirely, and half of it sits on timber over a void rather than on the ground. Testing before laying is the difference between a floor that lasts and one that lifts.

The modern estates — much of Hilton, Chellaston and the newer edges of everywhere else — are flat and sound, but they bring liquid screed, underfloor heating and chipboard decks, each with rules of their own that are easy to get wrong and expensive to put right.

The suburbs — Allestree, Mickleover and Littleover, Borrowash — have mostly been extended, so the question is usually how to get one floor running through parts of a house built forty years apart.

Whichever of those sounds like your house, the town page above goes into it properly.

The geography changes the job. It does not change how we work, and these apply everywhere on the list.

There is no showroom. That is a deliberate decision rather than a gap — rent, rates and stock all end up inside the price of a floor, and we would rather they did not. Samples come to the room they are destined for, which is also where the colour actually makes sense.

Most jobs are priced without a visit. Photographs of each room, rough measurements and a note of what is down at present will usually get you a figure back inside a working day. Bigger jobs and anything where the existing floor is an unknown get a visit first, because pricing a subfloor nobody has looked at is guesswork.

We take on fit-only work if you have bought the flooring yourself, we lift and dispose of the old floor as part of the price rather than as an extra, and everything carries a 12-month workmanship guarantee. Finance is available through Ideal4Finance, subject to status — the detail is on the finance options page.

The commercial side follows the geography just as closely. Distribution and warehousing cluster around junction 28 and East Midlands Airport; hospitality gathers near the airport and Donington Park; independent food and retail is concentrated in Belper, Melbourne and Ashbourne; and nurseries, salons and small practices turn up everywhere.

What we fit for businesses is commercial vinyl and carpet tile in shops, offices and receptions, welded safety vinyl with coved skirtings in anything preparing food, slip-resistant flooring in wet and welfare areas, and barrier matting at entrances, which does more for the lifespan of a commercial floor than anything else on the specification.

Commercial work is scheduled around your closure rather than ours — an evening, a closed day, a shutdown week or a school holiday. Tell us the window and we will price the job to fit inside it.