Floors and Finishes

The Surfaces You Touch Every Day

Flooring and tiles are the surfaces you live with most, and the hardest to change once they are down.

This guide helps you choose the right material for each room, order the right amount, and avoid the threshold problems that catch out so many projects.

What You Will Learn

• How solid wood, engineered wood, LVT, porcelain, stone and carpet compare, and where each works best

• Which floors suit underfloor heating, and which to avoid

• Expansion gaps, acclimatising boards, underlay and subfloor tolerances

• How to plan finished floor levels so thresholds meet neatly between rooms

• Common tile formats, grout joints and the setting out decisions to make before your tiler starts

• How to estimate flooring, tiles, skirting and underlay, with the right allowance for waste

• The checks to make before you order

What Is Inside

• Flooring: choosing and laying

• Tiles: formats and setting out

• Estimating: quick quantities and a pre-order checklist

• A Floor Schedule worksheet to record every room, its finish, quantities and build up

Who This Is For

• Homeowners choosing floors for a renovation or extension

• Anyone planning underfloor heating

• Those about to order flooring or tiles and wanting to get quantities right

• Renovators who want every doorway to finish level

Why This Guide Is Different

Created by G R Design Studio, everything in this guide comes from the numbers and checks we use on every project, not generic advice. It helps you choose floors that suit the way you live and plan them properly, so every room finishes cleanly and wears well for years.

A 6 page PDF, ready to download as soon as you buy.