Flooring for Coburg, Four Kilometres Away

The post-war brick veneer that makes up much of Coburg sits on a timber subfloor on stumps. Sixty years of movement means those floors are rarely flat, and a rigid floating floor over an uneven substrate flexes at every step until the joints work loose. Check flatness with a straightedge before choosing anything — a more rigid 9mm board like AXEN handles an older subfloor better than 7mm.

The Edwardian and Victorian housing closer to Bell Street brings a different problem: original boards at one level, a slab extension at another, and a threshold between them that has to be planned before you order rather than solved afterwards.

Coburg's 1960s and 70s walk-up flats are the third case, and the one where paperwork matters more than product. Almost all have an owners corporation with an acoustic condition, and the wrong floor is expensive to discover after installation.

Coburg has more low-rise apartment stock than most of the corridor, and those buildings almost always carry an acoustic requirement in their owners corporation rules.

Our hybrid and EVSPC ranges ship with high-density IXPE acoustic underlay bonded to the plank, which is what those rules are generally concerned with. 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.

Get the building's requirement in writing first, then ask us for the reports for the range you are considering. Ten minutes before you order; a very expensive problem afterwards.

Coburg is 4.6 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.