Flooring fitters in Bournemouth

What to put in your job description

• Which rooms and stairs, and roughly how big each one is.
• What you want laid: carpet, laminate, engineered or solid wood, vinyl or LVT.
• What is down now, and what is under it: floorboards, a concrete floor, or old tiles.
• Whether you have bought the flooring, or want the fitter to supply it.
• Whether doors may need trimming, and if you live in a flat with rules about hard floors.

Don't put your name, phone number or address in the description: every trade who covers your area reads it. Your name, phone, email and address go only to the trades who take the job (3 at most).

Questions to ask before you hire

• Does the price include underlay, levelling the floor, door bars and trims?
• Who moves the furniture, and who takes the old flooring away?
• Does a wood floor need to settle in the room before it is laid, and for how long?
• If the floor underneath needs work, how will you tell me and price it?
• Do you have public liability insurance?

Registers and schemes to check

There is no legal register for flooring fitters. Some belong to a trade body, such as the National Institute of Carpet and Floorlayers or the Contract Flooring Association. If you live in a flat, read your lease: many need sound insulation, or the landlord's consent, for a hard floor. We don't check this for you yet.

Your council in Bournemouth

Your local council deals with rubbish and bulky waste collections, and with planning if the job changes the outside of your home. For most of Bournemouth that is BCP Council; a postcode at the edge may be in a neighbouring council's area.

We take jobs from BH1, BH2, BH3, BH4, BH5, BH6, BH7, BH8, BH9, BH10, BH11 for Bournemouth. Trades choose the districts they cover.

More on hiring: Flooring fitters: what to ask and what to check.

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