Flooring for Brunswick Terraces and Conversions

A Victorian terrace usually has original boards over joists. If they are sound they can often be floated over, which keeps them intact under the new floor — but they need checking for cupping first, because a board that has cupped across its width fails the flatness test even though it looks flat from standing height.

Warehouse conversions are the opposite: a large flat slab, often with in-slab services, and frequently a shared structure where impact sound travels. The slab is usually the easy part.

Terraces are also narrow. Running boards down the length of a hallway rather than across it is worth planning, because cross-laying a corridor makes it read shorter and lights up every joint.

Anything above ground floor in Brunswick — a conversion, an apartment, the upper level of a subdivided terrace — is likely to carry an acoustic condition.

Our hybrid and EVSPC ranges ship with high-density IXPE acoustic underlay bonded to the plank. Acoustic test reports for the hybrid ranges are available on request; for EVSPC, supporting technical documentation may be available to Square Flooring customers on request, where applicable. The sensible order is: get the building's written requirement, then ask us for what we hold so the two can be checked against each other.

Do not add a second underlay to improve the numbers. Extra cushioning under a rigid floating floor lets the boards flex and damages the click joint, and it will not be the fix you hoped for.

Brunswick is 6.9 kilometres from our warehouse at Unit 48, 2 Cobham St, Reservoir. In-stock product can be collected the day you buy it, at no delivery charge, and a forklift is available for larger orders.

Book the collection ahead so the stock is picked and ready. There is no minimum order — a single box is a perfectly normal thing to buy, which matters if you are finishing a room or replacing damaged boards.

If collecting does not suit, we deliver throughout Victoria, charged on destination, distance and the order.

We install across Victoria, and our installation service covers flooring supplied by Square Flooring. One company owning both the product and the workmanship means a problem has one owner rather than two parties pointing at each other.

Installations carry a workmanship warranty, separate from the manufacturer's product warranty on the flooring itself.

Subfloor preparation, removal of existing floor coverings, waste removal, stairs, door trimming and scotia are quoted as separate lines rather than folded into a square-metre rate.