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Loughborough is the largest town in this part of Leicestershire and the housing reflects a long history, from the Victorian terraces around the town centre and Shelthorpe through to substantial inter-war semis and newer estates out toward Thorpe Acre. Student lets and rental property are a significant part of the market here too, and landlords tend to want something hard-wearing that turns around quickly between tenancies. Owner-occupiers in the older terraces are usually straightforward recarpets, since carpet and a good underlay ask very little of the floor underneath.
We carry wool-rich, twist and saxony carpets from Cormar, Ulster, Westex, Brockway and Penthouse, alongside LVT, laminate and engineered wood.
We do not have a showroom in Loughborough. Our nearest is Market Street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, about twenty five minutes from Loughborough, and you are welcome to visit and see the ranges laid out properly.
Most customers at this distance find it easier to have us come to them. We bring samples to your home, measure at the same visit, and quote from that. It is free, there is no obligation, and seeing a carpet in your own light beats a showroom strip light every time.
Every order is measured and fitted by our own employed fitting teams rather than subcontractors, which is why we are comfortable talking about subfloor preparation in detail. We move furniture, lift and dispose of your old flooring, and come back if anything needs attention.
We have been supplying and fitting floors since 1981 and cover Loughborough, Shelthorpe, Thorpe Acre, Quorn, Barrow upon Soar and the surrounding villages.
Carpet is not always the right answer, and in Loughborough it often is not. Student lets and rental property need something that survives a change of tenant without being replaced. Kitchens, hallways and anywhere a bike gets wheeled through want a hard floor.
Luxury vinyl tile is what we fit most often in those situations. It takes the look of wood or stone but handles water, grit and heavy traffic in a way a laminate will not, and individual planks can be lifted and replaced if one gets damaged rather than relaying the room. We are a Karndean Inspire Studio, which means the full range is laid out on a dedicated stand at our showrooms rather than scattered across a sample rack.
Laminate remains the sensible budget choice for bedrooms, living rooms and lettings where the floor will not get wet. Modern boards are considerably better than the laminate people remember from twenty years ago, and the click systems make for a quick, clean fit. It is the one to pick when the budget is the deciding factor and the room is dry.
Sheet vinyl is still the most practical floor for a bathroom or utility room. It is genuinely waterproof across its whole surface with no joins for water to find, which neither laminate nor click LVT can claim.
If you are not sure which suits a particular room, say so when we visit. We would rather talk you out of a floor that will not last in the room you have in mind than fit it and hear about it in two years.
Who lays the floor matters as much as what you buy, and it is the part most people do not think about until something has gone wrong.
Our fitters are employed by us rather than subcontracted. That sounds like a technicality and it is not. A subcontract fitter is paid per job, so the incentive is to be in and out quickly, and the awkward parts of a job — a subfloor that needs preparing, a doorway that needs a proper threshold, a stair that wants setting out carefully — are exactly the parts that cost time. Our teams are paid to do those properly because the job comes back to us if they do not.
It is also why we can train. We take on two apprentice floorlayers every year, trained alongside our most experienced installers and through FITA, which most flooring firms cannot do precisely because they rely on subcontractors.
In practice, for a Loughborough job: we measure at the same visit as showing you samples, we move the furniture, we lift and dispose of your old flooring, and if a door needs easing once the new floor and underlay are down we have an in-house joiner for it. If something needs attention afterwards, we come back.
If you want more detail on what fitting day actually involves, we have written it up properly — how to prepare for carpet fitting day, how long carpet fitting takes, and what to know about fitting carpet on stairs.
Loughborough is not only a residential market. The university, the science and enterprise park and the business estates around the town mean there is a steady amount of commercial flooring work, and we handle that side separately from domestic.
Our commercial team quotes and manages contract work across Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. That covers office flooring, carpet tiles, safety flooring and contract vinyl, along with the parts of a commercial job that do not apply domestically — working outside business hours so a floor goes down over a weekend, phased installation so a department keeps operating, and the health and safety documentation a site will ask for before anyone starts.
We also work with housebuilders and developers and in care settings, where slip resistance and cleanability drive the specification rather than appearance.
If you are specifying a floor for a Loughborough office, let us quote it. Commercial estimating is a different job from a domestic measure and it is worth having someone look at the drawings.
Do you have a carpet shop in Loughborough?
Not in Loughborough itself. Our nearest showroom is on Market Street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, around twenty five minutes away, and you are very welcome to visit. Most Loughborough customers find it easier to have us come to them instead: we bring samples to your home, measure at the same visit and quote from that. It is free and there is no obligation, and judging a carpet colour in your own light beats a showroom strip light every time.
Do you fit laminate flooring in Loughborough?
Yes. Laminate is a sensible choice for bedrooms, living rooms and rental property where the floor will not get wet, and modern boards are considerably better than the laminate people remember from twenty years ago. If the room is likely to see water — a kitchen, a bathroom, a hallway where wet shoes come in — we would steer you towards LVT or sheet vinyl instead and explain why.
What about vinyl flooring?
Sheet vinyl is still the most practical floor for a bathroom or utility room because it is waterproof across its whole surface with no joins for water to find. Luxury vinyl tile is the better option for kitchens, hallways and open-plan spaces, where you want the look of wood or stone with the durability to match. We fit both.
Which flooring is best for a student let or rental property?
LVT, in most cases. It survives a change of tenant, copes with grit and water, and individual planks can be lifted and replaced if one gets damaged rather than relaying the whole room. Laminate is the budget alternative where rooms stay dry. Landlords with several properties in Loughborough tend to settle on one specification and repeat it, which also makes repairs simpler.
Do you use subcontract fitters?
No. Our fitters are employed by us. A subcontractor is paid per job, so the awkward parts — subfloor preparation, thresholds, setting out a staircase properly — are the parts that cost them time. Our teams are paid to do those correctly because the job comes back to us if they are not. It is also why we can train apprentices, which most flooring firms cannot.
Do you do office and commercial flooring in Loughborough?
Yes, handled by our commercial team separately from domestic work. That covers carpet tiles, safety flooring and contract vinyl, along with working outside business hours, phased installation so a department keeps operating, and the health and safety documentation a site will want before anyone starts. If you are specifying a floor for a Loughborough office, send us the drawings.
Which areas around Loughborough do you cover?
Loughborough itself including Shelthorpe and Thorpe Acre, plus Quorn, Barrow upon Soar and the surrounding villages. We also cover Shepshed, Kegworth and the wider north Leicestershire area from our Ashby showroom.
