anyone used uk flooring direct?

Fortune82

STOCKWIRE wrote: »

Suspicions arise when a post sounds like it is an extract from a sales manual.

It was a recommendation from someone who knows the business intimately. Perhaps you would have liked me to make up something negative instead? Is this a community of people trying to help each other or is it peopled by trolls like so many other places?

With your heightened sense of suspicion perhaps you have a future as a moderator on a forum like this then? If you, or anyone else wishes to take issue with any single aspect of my initial post - from their own experience of this company - then please do. I speak as I find, and it's no accident that UKFD have grown to dominate the online market.

STOCKWIRE

Fortune82 wrote: »

It was a recommendation from someone who knows the business intimately. Perhaps you would have liked me to make up something negative instead? Is this a community of people trying to help each other or is it peopled by trolls like so many other places?

With your heightened sense of suspicion perhaps you have a future as a moderator on a forum like this then? If you, or anyone else wishes to take issue with any single aspect of my initial post - from their own experience of this company - then please do. I speak as I find, and it's no accident that UKFD have grown to dominate the online market.

Fair enough. Point taken, but as you have said you use the company in a professional capacity and perhaps get preferential treatment and perhaps a trade discount, something a private individual might not receive. Again you don't have to look far on other threads to find "self promotion", from decking to asbestos removal. MSE is a very popular forum and endorsements have the potential to make a "bad company" look good !.

Ionkontrol

Looking at their site, they 'seem' to be peddling the usual chinese flooring (189mm wide x 1890mm long) boards that all the internet sites are awash with.

abankerbutnotafatcat

Ionkontrol wrote: »

Looking at their site, they 'seem' to be peddling the usual chinese flooring (189mm wide x 1890mm long) boards that all the internet sites are awash with.

Apologies both for hijacking this post and asking ignorant questions but is the chinese flooring of a poorer quality or is it simply that this is flooding the market? What are the alternatives?

I suppose I would probably go to one of these sites and choose the 'look' I was after and check what thickness it was but not consider where it came from.

Fortune82

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

Apologies both for hijacking this post and asking ignorant questions but is the chinese flooring of a poorer quality or is it simply that this is flooding the market? What are the alternatives?

I suppose I would probably go to one of these sites and choose the 'look' I was after and check what thickness it was but not consider where it came from.

Most of the timber flooring coming into the UK is from China or Eastern Europe. Some retailers will suggest that their products are specifically manufactured for the UK climate and charge a premium for that. Even so, these products are very unlikely to be manufactured here.

In any event all timber flooring should be allowed to acclimatise for a short while in your home before being laid. If it's laid to the instructions with appropriate expansion gaps, and in a moisture free environment (not a bathroom or unventilated kitchen) it should last a good while.

I put a cheap engineered floor down about 11 years ago in a high traffic part of my home, which is still fine now.

hotcookie101

Just as a follow up to this thread-the floor has been ordered and will be delivered in a couple of weeks. Just how heavy will a pack of flooring be? As its only me at home during the day it's being delivered and I will have to bring it in on my own I am a girl, but not a weakling, lift 20kg dogs regularly at work... Am I likely to be able to manage it, or will I have to cover it with a tarp until OH gets home?

paulpud

I ordered a fair quantity of flooring that arrived on a pallet but each individual pack wasn't that heavy.

I was at work when it was delivered and my other half phoned me to ask if she should have a go at getting it inside the house, to which I told her only if she felt she could easily manage it.

When I got home it was all nicely stacked in the dining room, bless her

[Deleted User]

I'm of the female persuasion too.., and managed to get a good pallet of flooring into the house. They are heavy but not too heavy (more awkward than anything else lol). Just use safe lifting practices, bend from the knees and lift rather than using your back, hold it to your body to carry in., just normal good sense stuff.

I do remember working in an office in the late 80's and used to be intensely embarrassed by 'ladies' asking gents to move their electric typewriters around lol. I don't see why ladies can't carry things in as long as they're not ridiculously heavy.

My limit is moving a gearbox. Nearly ruptured something unmentionable lol.

KateLiana27

hotcookie101 wrote: »

Just as a follow up to this thread-the floor has been ordered and will be delivered in a couple of weeks. Just how heavy will a pack of flooring be? As its only me at home during the day it's being delivered and I will have to bring it in on my own I am a girl, but not a weakling, lift 20kg dogs regularly at work... Am I likely to be able to manage it, or will I have to cover it with a tarp until OH gets home?

Funnily enough we have just had flooring delivered from this company. There are back problems in my family so I'm always careful. I got the number for the delivery company the day before (UK Flooring gave it to me), and I called to tell them (not ask, mind, tell) that they would need to bring it in themselves. They grumbled but obliged I suggest you do the same.

The pallets are very heavy. Either insist that they help you bring it into the house, or wait for your other half (or a strong friend) to help you.

hotcookie101

Thanks.
I don't think I could insist they bring it in, but I might ask them nicely if they would give me a hand Otherwise I'll give it a go. Our house is a bit above street level, with some level bits and some steps in the path, so I could just forgo the gym that day