THE MANOR WAY · OUR PROCESS
25 years of informed choices, skilled fitting, and rooms made to be lived in. Here is how we bring exceptional flooring into your home.
A calm, considered approach to choosing and fitting floors that belong in your home.
Call 01865 321554 ↗STEP BY STEP
We guide you smoothly through selection, site evaluation, clear pricing, and meticulous installation.
Explore our Wootton showroom and compare engineered oak, Karndean, carpet and vinyl displays under natural lighting. Our friendly team — Sue, Chris & Chloe — helps you find the floor that makes your home look great.
One of our experienced fitters will visit your property across Abingdon, Oxford, and wider Oxfordshire to take measurements, inspect existing subfloors, and test for damp or level irregularities that standard quotes miss.
Receive a detailed, written proposal with itemised costs for materials, underlayments, subfloor grinding, screeding, and fitting. No hidden extras or unexpected surprises on installation day.
Our experienced in-house fitting team handles every detail—from floor smoothing and damp-proof membranes to precision plank laying and clean door trimming.
THE MANOR WAY
From your first showroom visit to the 3-year aftercare promise, here is how we work — and what happens at every stage.
You can call, email or contact us through our website but there isn't anything better than visiting our showroom. Come and chat with the showroom team — Sue, Chris & Chloe — who can help you with the design process and help find that floor that makes your home look great.
One of our experienced installers will come and see what's needed. They will guide you through the steps from floor preparation to final installation and take all the sizes we need to create your new floor.
At the end of the measure/site visit the installer sends the showroom all the details needed to create your quotation. normally emailed to you within 24 hours with all the information you should need.
To go ahead we take a deposit payment — normally the cost of the materials we order in for your project. then promptly ordered and delivered to our secure warehouse, kept safe ready for the installation date.
Mostly stock materials and installation cost are normally due on completion of the project, after the installers have finished.
We offer a 3 year promise — if something we have installed fails within the 3 years we will fix it. Just contact our team and we'll send one of our installation team to investigate and get your floor back to looking great. After the 3 years, never worry about contacting us — we are here to help for the life of your floor.
PREPARATION & INSTALLATION
Every floor has its own preparation and installation method. Here is exactly how we handle each one.
Karndean needs a smooth, hardwearing surface to be glued to so that it can last the test of time. Most floors will not be perfectly level but we aim to get it as smooth as possible over the subfloor ready for installation.
The subfloor needs to be strong and secure before we take the next step, so floorboards are screwed down and gaps filled in with any squeaky noise fixed where possible. Next we cover the flooring over with a Hanson SP101 flooring ply (minimum 6mm) depending on the subfloor — we decide on the best thickness ply to use. Once the ply is cut and fixed to the subfloor we feather the joins and smooth off any imperfections in the ply.
First we look at what type of concrete you have — liquid or traditional sand/cement — and whether it is a new floor or existing. Liquid screed mostly needs grinding to remove the top layer and open up the pores so we can get the bond with the new screed/latex finish. Traditional sand/cement generally just requires priming and a screed/latex finish; unlike liquid screed it rarely needs grinding. Next the floor requires a damp test to make sure levels are below the flooring manufacturer guidelines (different manufacturers have their own guidelines). Moisture build-up under a Karndean floor is one of the most common reasons a floor fails, so this is very important — a hydrometer is really the only way to take a proper test. A concrete floor quite often should just need a single coat of screed/latex; sometimes however it will require more than one coat depending on how level the existing floor has been left. Two coats are mostly needed after the removal of old floor coverings that have left the subfloor in poor condition.
At Manor Flooring we only install glued-down Karndean — we know it lasts so much longer than click/floating systems. With glue-down floors we like to say you get better miles for your pounds. Click doesn't last, so we just don't do it. Our in-house team takes your chosen design and goes through it one more time to make sure you are happy with the layout and makes a few final tweaks if needed. Once all agreed, our skilled installers cut and glue the Karndean into place and leave you with a clean, beautiful looking new floor.
Following manufacturer guidelines is a big part of the flooring preparation, but along with this we have an in-house team of installers — head of the team has over 25 years' experience alone and over 100 years of combined team installation experience to make sure we get the best preparation possible.
SUBFLOOR MASTERY
Even the most exquisite oak plank or Karndean tile will fail if the subfloor isn't prepared properly. That's why we handle all grinding, moisture-proofing, and latex screeding in-house before laying a single plank.
Our technical precision delivers a flat, durable surface built to last for generations.
Request a site inspection ↗OUR STANDARDS
Decades of specialist knowledge fitting complex floors across historic Oxfordshire manors and modern architectural homes.
We own advanced floor grinding, damp-proofing, and latex screeding equipment required for flawless, long-lasting results.
All of our master installers have been trained in-house and only work for Manor Flooring.
Our relationship doesn't end when the floor is down. We provide ongoing care advice, maintenance products, and warranty support.
BEGIN YOUR PROJECT
Visit our Wootton showroom or arrange a conversation with the Manor Flooring team.
Call 01865 321554