Eastbourne

Carpet is still the floor for most Eastbourne bedrooms, living rooms and stairs, and the Victorian houses in Upperton and Meads are where our carpet fitters do their most careful work: long halls with a seam that has to disappear, staircases with two turns of winders, landings that wrap round the stairwell. A dense wool twist over a proper underlay is what we fit there.

In the flats along the seafront a hard wearing, stain resistant twist is often the better choice, and the same goes for the rental properties that make up so much of the town. We fit for landlords and letting agents across Eastbourne, between tenants, quickly and properly.

Luxury vinyl tile is the floor Eastbourne is asking for most, and the photographs on this page show why: this whole ground floor, latex levelled and laid in an oak effect plank through the kitchen, living room and hall, is one of ours, in Eastbourne.

It suits the town's older houses because the levelling makes an uneven ground floor flat, and it suits Sovereign Harbour because glue down LVT is the best floor there is over underfloor heating. Herringbone in the hall, planks through the kitchen, no thresholds in between.

Sheet vinyl goes into Eastbourne kitchens, bathrooms and utility rooms every week, in one piece wherever the room fits within the roll, sealed at the bath and the units. It is the floor we recommend most for the town's rental flats, because it is quick, waterproof and easy to keep.

Laminate is the practical choice for a busy family living room in Hampden Park or Langney, and for a home office where a chair on castors would mark a softer floor. We fit it with the right underlay and wear class for the room, and we will tell you when a room would be better in LVT.

Stairs are a speciality in Eastbourne: runners with rods on the painted staircases of Old Town and Meads, fully fitted carpet on the family flights in Hampden Park, both cut and folded around every winder. Where a hall runs into an open plan extension in Ratton or Willingdon, we finish the stair carpet neatly against the hall floor so the two meet without a lip.