We repair floors instead of relaying them. The jobs we get called out to most are scratched or chipped laminate boards, vinyl and LVT that has lifted at a seam, floorboards that squeak or bounce and engineered wood that has gapped or cupped. Single board replacement is £90 to £170 and curing squeaks in a room is £120 to £220.
Laminate and click-fit floors are made to be taken apart. A damaged board in the middle of a room can be lifted and swapped without touching the rest, as long as you have a spare board or we can source a match. Most people assume the whole floor has to come up. It does not.
Squeaking is different. That noise is almost never the boards. It is the boards moving against a joist, or a nail that has worked loose in a joist that has dried and shrunk. Screwing the board down into the joist in the right places stops it for good. Filling the gap with talc, which is the advice you will find online, lasts about a fortnight.
In older London flats there is a third thing worth checking before anyone quotes you. Victorian and Edwardian floors move seasonally, and gaps that open in winter often close again in summer. We will tell you if what you are looking at is a fault or just the building breathing.
Floor repair prices
These cover labour and fixings. Replacement boards are charged at cost and itemised.
| Job | Price | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Replace a damaged laminate or LVT board | £90 to £170 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Cure squeaking floorboards, one room | £120 to £220 | 2 to 3 hrs |
| Refix lifted vinyl or LVT seam | £80 to £140 | 1 hr |
| Replace a rotten or split floorboard | £90 to £180 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Fill and stop draughty board gaps, per room | £140 to £260 | half day |
| Refit scotia or beading after a leak | £80 to £150 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Re-level a small dipped area with ply | £180 to £340 | half day |
| Sand and refinish one scratched board | £90 to £160 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Replace door bar or threshold strip | £35 to £60 | 20 mins |
| Lift and relay floor after a pipe repair | £150 to £320 | half day |
Minimum charge £90. Matching boards, ply, adhesive and fixings charged at cost.
A room of new laminate fitted is £600 to £1,200 once you include underlay and beading. If the damage is two boards, the repair is well under a fifth of that.
What we repair
How a floor repair works
If you have spare boards from the original fit, find them first. Laminate ranges change every couple of years and a leftover pack turns a good repair into an invisible one.
What we check before quoting
- Whether the subfloor is dry. There is no point relaying over a wet subfloor, it will lift again.
- Whether the floor was fitted with an expansion gap. Buckled laminate is usually a floor fitted tight to the skirting, not a faulty floor.
- Whether the joists have moved. A dip across a room is a joist problem, not a board problem, and pretending otherwise wastes your money.
- Whether it is seasonal. Gaps that open every winter in a Victorian flat are the building, not a defect.
Floor repairs across London
We cover every London postcode. Send a photo of the damage and tell us the floor type, and we will price it.