We are covering Ripon for all clients of oak parquet flooring. We have huge stock waiting for dispatch - just pick the size of your block and select the grade you'd like it in and your delivery will be with you shortly.

Our tongue-and-grooved oak parquet flooring blocks are available in Prime, Natural and Rustic grades and come in 3 different sizes. These are 70 x 230 mm, 70 x 280 mm and 70 x 350 mm, all with 20 mm thickness of the block. Each pack contains an equal number of blocks of left and right-oriented fitting - ideal for the installation of the parquet flooring in a herringbone pattern. It is possible of course to lay the blocks in many other patterns as well.

The lower-positioned tongue-and-groove provides approx 12 mm of sandable depth, meaning a longer life for your floors.

Parquet Finishing & Fitting Products

We went a bit further by offering parquet flooring together with all necessary finishing and fitting products - we do parquet floor adhesives, wood floor varnish from Bona and Junckers and floor oils. We do oak thresholds and edgings and mouldings, beading in oak and MDF, skirting boards and more.

Our Parquet Floor Grading System

• Rustic Grade Parquet Blocks - rich, vivid character allowing random size and form of knots and colour variation between the blocks;
• Natural Grade Parquet Blocks - more calm, natural feeling of the timber, allowing limited sized knots of up to 5 mm and almost no colour variation between the blocks;
• Prime Grade Parquet Blocks - clean oak timber without colour variation between the blocks; knots of 1 mm may appear randomly on 1 of 5 blocks.

Reclaimed or New Blocks?

We are often approached by clients looking for parquet floor laying service in Ripon of reclaimed blocks or just asking us if that is a good idea at all. Sometimes they can be found cheaper, sometimes more expensive than new oak parquet flooring blocks, but in any case, it is not right to install reclaimed blocks, because this hides potential problems and normally, the cost of service will be much higher compared to fitting new blocks.

New blocks have come to market after timber has been carefully prepared and checked before production. Blocks are stored by suppliers normally in purpose-built warehouses, which protect the product from gaining higher moisture content. By bidding on eBay or taking the bags of blocks from your neighbour's garage you are risking to pay for a product that was improperly stored, which will cause issues after the fitting is finished.

On the other hand, when reclaimed blocks are laid together, they will not be in the same location as before and therefore some blocks may be higher than others throughout the floors. To resolve this, a serious sanding process will be carried out in order to smoothen the floors. Such service will require more consumables and therefore cost more.

The end result, will not be the same as having new blocks laid and the final cost will go well over the cost of laying new blocks.

Placing Your Order

If you are looking for advice at the same time when purchasing your oak parquet flooring blocks, speak to a member of staff on 020 88309788. Alternatively, you can add all products to basket and place your order online.

Stock Availability

As specialist parquet flooring supplier we try to keep our stock on a level at all times and if we run out of blocks, and it normally takes up to 2 weeks for re-stocking, so we will be able to deliver to you within reasonable time frame even if the sizes and grades are not currently in stock.

Basics of Laying Parquet Flooring

Most of our clients of parquet flooring blocks are experienced fitters hired as contractors for a project in Ripon . But sometimes the management of the project is partly held by the property owner, and if the case is like this, here is some short advice on laying parquet flooring.

• Parquet blocks require a perfect level. If your subfloor is concrete, which has damage and unevenness, do not resolve it with self-levelling compound, it is a common mistake - take advise of your builders. Uneven wooden subfloors are always advisable to be plied or chipboarded prior to fitting.
• Apply liquid DPM on concrete subfloors.
• Parquet blocks are natural, unfinished product - allow up to 5 days for flooring acclimatisation in colder seasons.