150m² of reclaimed-effect engineered oak and 33 clad steps for WatchHouse’s London Bridge office and apartments. Looks 200 years old. Made last month.
20
Oct
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Posts by Ed Grant
14
Oct
Should you have the same floor throughout your home, or mix herringbone and plank, warm and pale? A London floor fitter’s view, plus a real Stoke Newington example.
12
Oct
London developer Ian shares 10 ways to save on a renovation so there’s budget left for a floor you’ll love. Plus how to get 15% off by ordering early.
06
Oct
How we refloored plates on Old Street, the UK’s first vegan Michelin-starred restaurant, in four days, without ripping up the old tiles.
01
Oct
Thicker sounds better. But the German parquet industry expects a floor to be sanded twice in 50 years, so on a 6mm top layer you’re paying for 4.6mm of oak you’ll never touch. Here’s where your money should go instead.
23
Sep
Builders often add a buffer to flooring dates. We compared 933 Kite deliveries against their requested dates. Here’s what we found, and what to ask your builder.
19
Sep
Shoreditch showroom now stocks the full range of Belgiqa engineered wood flooring, stair cladding and veneer samples
Kite Flooring, the Shoreditch-based premium wood flooring specialist, is proud to announce its partnership with Belgiqa, a Belgian manufacturer of high-end architectural wood products including engineered wood...
09
Aug
Introducing the Kite Forward Order Scheme.
Save 15% on selected best-selling floors when you confirm early.
Update: the scheme now has its own page, with the current list of floors and the full details. See the Forward Order Scheme.
24
Mar
Seamless oak stair cladding in a London Bridge Mews House
21
Mar
Tired of mismatched or worn stairs? Discover Kite’s StairFlow system; the seamless wooden stair cladding solution that outperforms traditional nosings.
10
Nov
What is the best flooring for dogs? Vets don’t recommend a type. Bella the whippet, wood vs laminate vs vinyl, and why quality matters more than floor type.
06
Nov
Recently, during a team meeting, we sat down and debated what people actually wanted from their floors? Surprisingly, after some debate, we realised it wasn’t actually that complicated.
Yet somehow our industry has made it super complex? Could it be that working in the...
20
Oct
At Kite, our mission focuses on range curation. But recently, we’ve been reflecting (as many businesses sometimes do…), as we now offer a lot of choice! At Kite we spend many hours debating whether to bring a floor into our range, but even with this discipline, sometimes...
16
Oct
LVT or engineered oak? A straight comparison of look, lifespan, kitchens, cost and sustainability, from London floor fitters.
01
Sep
Updated October 2026
A few months ago, we had a client who came into our showroom after they had had a vinyl floor fitted by a local flooring shop in South East London. Immediately after the floor had been fitted, they noticed a strong noxious,...
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