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Datum Flooring · Harrogate · Est. 2002

Measured twice. Fitted once. Level for decades.

Engineered oak, herringbone parquet, restoration and LVT — more than 2,600 floors across Harrogate since 2002, each one moisture-tested before fitting, levelled to a written tolerance, and signed off against the readings with the customer watching. The survey is free, the quote is fixed, and most rooms go from measure to finished floor inside three weeks.
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±3 mmFlat over 3 m at handover
2,600+Floors fitted since 2002
10 yrWritten workmanship guarantee

How Datum runs a job

Four stages, each recorded on the job sheet and signed off before the next begins — the same sequence on every job since 2002.

Survey & readings

Elena visits within three working days, measures every room and takes hygrometer readings. A screed we do not trust gets a calcium carbide test on the spot.

Preparation

Subfloor levelled to SR1 — three millimetres over three metres — then primed, while your boards acclimatise on site for seven days, stacked and stickered.

Fitting

Set out from the room datum so herringbone points meet the doorway square and borders finish even at every wall. Expansion gaps to BS 8201 throughout.

Finish & handover

Oiled or lacquered, beading fitted, sanding dust-extracted — and the readings from day one handed over in the handover pack, next to the guarantee.

What we fit

Engineered wood

Oak, walnut and ash from £96 per square metre supplied and fitted — floating or fully bonded, over screed or timber, underfloor heating included. Boards from 14 to 20 mm, in widths chosen to suit the room.

Herringbone & chevron

Parquet from £128 per square metre, set out from a centre datum line so the pattern lands square in the doorway — the detail everyone notices without knowing why. Blocks from 70 to 120 mm, scaled to the space.

Restoration & LVT

Original blocks sanded, repaired and refinished from £44 per square metre. Luxury vinyl tile from £78 where the traffic is hardest. Both carry the same ten-year written guarantee as new timber.

Estimate your floor in thirty seconds

Pick the finish, set the floor area, and the guide range updates as you drag. It prices the floors we actually fit, at the rates current this year — and the survey turns it into a fixed written quote that cannot move.
Job type
20 m²
Guide price range
£1,920–£2,48020 m² · Engineered wood
Supplied and fitted, including waste. Guide only — confirmed as a fixed written quote after survey.
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The firm the readings built

Marcus Whitfield founded Datum in 2002 after ten years fitting floors other people had quoted, with one rule that still runs the firm: never lay a board over a number you have not measured. Elena Sobczak runs every survey, Josh Tan leads the parquet work, and nothing is fitted until the subfloor readings say it can be. The vans carry the same kit whether the job is a box room or a showroom, and the handover pack — readings, levels, guarantee — is identical too.

Recent work, drawn to scale

“They matched the 1908 pine blocks in our hall so well that I know where the repair is and still cannot find it.”
Ruth Calderwood, Edwardian terrace, Cold Bath Road

Straight answers

  • Within three working days. The visit takes under an hour and the fixed written quote follows within 48 hours.
Next step

Get the exact number.

A survey takes under an hour, the readings take ten minutes, and the quote that follows is fixed — the figure on the paper is the figure on the invoice. Call the workshop, or book the visit and Elena will confirm within the day.
01423 618 942
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Mon–Fri 7:30–17:00 · Sat 8:00–12:00 · Surveys within 3 working days