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Flooring Replacement
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Flooring Replacement

Our flooring fitters replace floors across London homes and rentals: engineered wood, luxury vinyl tile, laminate and hard-wearing carpet. Every job starts with the subfloor — repair, levelling and acoustic underlay where the lease demands it — so the finish lasts and the neighbours below stay quiet.

Written Guarantee: 5 Years
Average Timeline Range: 1 day - 2 weeks

The Right Floor for the Room — and the Tenant

Flooring choices look aesthetic and are really mechanical. Engineered wood gives the warmth of timber with the stability London’s centrally heated flats demand, and can be sanded at least once. Luxury vinyl tile has become the landlord’s favourite for kitchens, bathrooms and hallways: waterproof, warm underfoot and convincing to look at. Laminate remains the budget workhorse, and good-quality carpet still wins bedrooms in rental stock — quiet, warm and cheap to replace at tenancy change. We fit all of them daily and will tell you plainly which suits the room, the budget and the tenancy length: a £28-per-square-metre LVT that survives five tenancies beats a £70 oak ruined by the first tenant’s washing machine.

Subfloors: Where Flooring Jobs Are Won

No floor finish survives a bad subfloor. Squeaks, bounce, lifting joints and cracked grout all trace back to what is underneath: loose Victorian boards, humps at old hearths, screeds that were never flat. Before fitting anything we walk and probe the subfloor, refix or replace defective boards, and level with ply overboarding or self-levelling compound to the tolerance the finish requires — LVT in particular telegraphs every ripple through to the surface. Where we find historic leak damage or rot — common around London bathrooms — we repair joists and boards properly first, because trapping damp under a new waterproof floor turns a flooring job into a structural one. Moisture readings are taken on screeds before any wood goes down.

Acoustic Underlay and Lease Requirements in Flats

Most London leases restrict hard flooring, and many prohibit it outright in bedrooms or above habitable rooms — clauses written precisely because footsteps on a badly fitted laminate floor are the most common neighbour dispute in converted buildings. Where hard flooring is permitted, leases typically require an acoustic underlay meeting a stated impact-sound standard, and managing agents can demand evidence. We check the lease position before quoting, fit acoustic underlay systems matched to the finish, and keep the product data sheets in your handover pack for the managing agent’s file. For landlords this paperwork matters twice: it protects the licence to alter, and it heads off the downstairs complaint that otherwise arrives three weeks into the new tenancy.
Standards & Compliance

Every Apex London project is delivered to current British Standards and Building Regulations, with works documented for building control and HMO licensing sign-off — backed by fixed written quotes and a written guarantee.

BRITISH STANDARDS · BUILDING REGS COMPLIANT · FD30/FD60 FIRE DOORSETS · BS 5839-6 ALARMS · WRITTEN GUARANTEE

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How much does flooring replacement cost in London?

Typical supplied-and-fitted prices: laminate £30–£50 per square metre, LVT £45–£75, engineered wood £70–£120, and landlord-spec carpet £20–£35 including underlay. Subfloor levelling, ply overboarding and acoustic underlay are itemised separately. A typical two-bedroom flat refloors throughout for £2,500–£6,500 depending on finish.

What flooring is best for a rental property?

LVT for kitchens, bathrooms and hallways — waterproof and hard-wearing; quality laminate or LVT for living rooms; carpet for bedrooms, cheap to refresh between tenancies. Avoid solid wood and soft species in rentals: one washing machine leak or one set of furniture dents and the floor becomes a deposit dispute.

Do I need acoustic underlay in my flat?

Check the lease — most London leases require hard floors to achieve a stated impact-sound performance, and some prohibit hard flooring in certain rooms entirely. Fitting without complying risks freeholder action and taking the floor back up. We review the clause, specify a compliant underlay and provide the data sheets for the managing agent.

Can you level a bad subfloor first?

Yes — it is half the job. We refix loose boards, replace rotten timber, overboard with ply or pour self-levelling compound depending on the construction, and take moisture readings on screeds before laying wood. Skipping this stage is why cheap flooring quotes turn into squeaky, gappy floors within a year.

Apex Written Guarantee

We provide a fully comprehensive, written 5-Year guarantee covering all structural reinstatement, moisture boundaries, and finish coatings.

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