Flooring Sydney
Adore Rugs & Flooring supplies and installs flooring across Sydney. Every job starts the same way: we come out, measure the space, look at what is under the existing floor, and quote on what the job actually needs rather than a rate per square metre with the hard parts left off. The measure and quote are free.
Who lays the floor
The same installers do our work week in and week out. They are not a rotating pool of whoever is available. Our lead flooring installer has laid every product we stock, including the ones most crews would rather not quote on: herringbone, glue-down engineered timber, and stairs. Carpet has its own dedicated installer, because carpet is a different trade with different tools and a different unit of measurement.
That matters more than it sounds. Most flooring complaints are not about the boards. They are about a subfloor nobody checked, a stair nosing that does not sit flat, or a transition into a tiled hallway that ends up a centimetre proud.
What actually happens on an install
1. Measure and subfloor assessment
We measure the rooms and check the substrate. On a concrete slab that means checking for moisture and for level. On timber or particleboard it means checking for movement and for squeaks that will still be there afterwards. A floor laid over a bad substrate will fail no matter what you paid for the boards.
2. Preparation
This is where the variation in a quote comes from. Old carpet and underlay have to come up. Tack strips have to come out. Where underlay has perished and bonded itself to the slab it has to be scraped off, which is slow, unglamorous work that many quotes quietly omit. Where the slab is out of level we self-level it. Where a new floor has to finish flush with existing tiles, we build the substrate up to meet them.
3. Laying
Floating floors go down over acoustic underlay with expansion gaps at every wall and fixed object. Glue-down engineered goes down in adhesive with a trowel notch matched to the board. Herringbone is set out from a centre line so the pattern lands square to the room rather than square to a wall that is not straight.
4. Trims and finishing
Scotia or new skirting to cover the expansion gap, door bars at transitions, stair nosings where the floor runs up a staircase. Old floor coverings and offcuts go with us.
A recent Sydney job
A customer wanted carpet replaced with hybrid plank through the downstairs of their home. Two of the downstairs rooms sat lower than the tiled corridor, so the subfloor in both had to be raised to finish flush rather than leaving a lip at every doorway. The old underlay had melted onto the slab and had to be scraped back before anything could be laid. The staircase was clad in the same plank so the timber runs continuously from the ground floor up. All of it was done around the customer's furniture rather than emptying the house.
Product used was EasiPlank Natural Blackbutt. The customer left us a five star review afterwards, which is the only performance measure that counts on a job like that one.
What we install
- Hybrid floating, from 6.5mm up to 10mm, including herringbone
- Laminate floating, 8mm and 12mm, including water-resistant ranges for kitchens and laundries
- Engineered timber, floating or glue-down, including herringbone and chevron
- Vinyl plank and vinyl tile, including looselay and glue-down
- Broadloom carpet, stretched over underlay or direct stick
- Carpet tiles, for offices, gyms and rental properties
We hold ranges from Belgotex, Godfrey Hirst, Preference Floors, HTT Flooring, Terra Mater, Bass Timber, Airlay, Eco Flooring Systems and StoneFloor, so a quote is rarely limited to one brand's answer to your problem.
Where we work
The showroom is at 111 Station Road, Auburn. That is a short run to Sydney Olympic Park and a straight line down Parramatta Road into the city.
We install right through the inner west and across the harbour: Concord, Five Dock, Abbotsford, Drummoyne, Haberfield, Strathfield, Burwood, Balmain, Rozelle, Leichhardt, Hunters Hill, Gladesville, Lane Cove, Mosman and Neutral Bay. Rhodes, Wentworth Point, Newington and Sydney Olympic Park are ten minutes from the showroom door. East of the city we work through Paddington, Surry Hills, Randwick and Kensington.
Our own end of town is covered as well: Auburn, Lidcombe, Granville, Parramatta, Merrylands, Bankstown and Fairfield.
We travel further for larger jobs and for builders we work with regularly. If you are outside that spread, call and ask.
Questions we get asked
How long does an install take?
A single room is usually a day. A standard three bedroom house in hybrid or laminate is two to three days. Add time for subfloor preparation, stairs, or herringbone, all of which are slower than a straight lay.
Do I have to move my furniture?
Not necessarily. We work around furniture regularly, moving it room by room. It adds time, so tell us at the measure and it goes in the quote rather than becoming a surprise on the day.
Do you remove the old floor?
Yes. Carpet uplift, underlay removal and disposal are all things we do and all things we quote for separately, because the effort varies enormously between a carpet that lifts cleanly and one that has bonded to the slab.
My floor is uneven. Is that a problem?
It is a problem if it is ignored. Floating floors need a substrate within tolerance or the boards will flex, the joints will open and the floor will click underfoot. We self-level where it is needed and price that into the quote.
Can you match a new floor to existing tiles?
Yes, by building the substrate up so the finished heights meet. It is the most common request we get in homes where only part of the ground floor is being redone.
Book a measure
Call 02 9166 3980, request a free measure online, or come into the Auburn showroom with your room dimensions and a photo of what is down now. Bring a photo of the room in daylight if you want help matching a colour. The measure and quote cost nothing and come with no obligation to book the work.
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Lunar Leaf is a muted, greyed green: the quieter of the two greens in the Mystique range and the easier one to specify across a whole floor. It sits naturally alongside timber, plants and raw concrete, which makes it a...
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Astral Fern is the green in the Mystique range, a saturated fern to olive green with a soft mottled pattern moving across the tile, closer to a leaf than to a flat block of colour. It is the boldest colour...
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Forest Haven is a cool weathered grey with pronounced striation running through the grain: the most textural of the grey boards in the 8mm Bass Timber range, and the one that reads most as reclaimed timber. The striation is doing...
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Smoke White is a pale warm greige-cream oak with soft grain and a faint pink-beige warmth, with small knots showing through. It is the warm pale of the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range, a step warmer than Abbey Grey and softer...
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Royal Grey is a mid warm greige-brown with a taupe cast, visible grain and a scatter of knots. Despite the name it is warmer than it is grey: a mushroom-toned oak that sits between the pale boards and the two...
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Rawhide is a light to mid warm greige-tan with open knots and visible grain: a natural, slightly rustic board with more character than Coco Husk and a touch more grey than Cobblestone. It sits in the useful middle of the...
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Ocean Mist is a pale cool grey-greige with a faint green cast and soft, even grain. It is the quietest of the pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range, a shade cooler than Abbey Grey and less stark than...
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Iceberg is the palest board in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: a very light cool white-greige with the grain softened almost to a limed look and very little contrast between planks. A floor this pale is a decision rather than...
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Gunmetal is a mid to dark cool brown-grey with strong variation between boards, some planks a greyed mid brown and others close to charcoal. It is the darker of the two grey-toned boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range and...
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Coco Husk is a light warm beige-tan oak with soft grain and a scatter of small knots: muted rather than golden, a quiet sandy neutral that sits between the blondes and the greiges in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range. It...
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Cobblestone is a light to mid warm honey oak with visible grain and small knots, a shade deeper and more golden than Buck Natural and with more character in the grain. It is the warmest of the mid-tone boards in...
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Buck Natural is a light warm golden blonde oak with clean, flowing grain and few knots: oak left close to its own colour, with a clear honey warmth. It is the natural-oak reference point of the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range,...
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Brownstone is the darkest and most dramatic board in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: a deep warm red-brown with strong variation, where chocolate planks sit beside lighter tan ones and the grain runs bold through all of them. It reads...
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Bondi Beach is a light warm sandy tan with open knots and visible grain, and a fair amount of movement between boards. It is the most characterful of the warm pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: the knots...
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Abbey Grey is a pale cool greige oak: soft grain, low contrast and a light grey cast over a beige base, with small knots here and there. It is one of the four pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm...
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Sauvignon is a light warm honey-beige oak with soft grain, low contrast and a gentle golden cast: an easy, even blonde that sits between Pure Natural and Straw in the Prestige Oak range, warmer than the first and smoother than...
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Riesling is a pale to mid warm beige-tan with the grain pulled out in white: a brushed, limed look where the pale streaks run the full length of the board and give the surface visible texture. It is the most...
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Pure Natural is a light warm blonde-beige oak: clean, soft grain, few knots, and a gentle peach warmth that keeps it from reading as washed out. It is the closest thing in the Prestige Oak range to oak left as...
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Grey Wash is a mid grey-brown with a distinct olive cast and wide variation from board to board: some planks lean pale greige, others a smoky olive-brown, and the grain shows clearly through all of them. It is the most...
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Colonial Grey is a pale warm greige: a soft beige-grey oak with a faint pink cast, gentle grain and low contrast between boards, with the occasional small knot. On the swatch it reads closer to a warm putty than to...
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Quiet is a very pale cool cream grey with minimal grain, the softest board in the 14mm range. The name is accurate for once.On the wide 2025 x 244mm plank this is about as calm as a floor gets, which...
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Moon is a cool mid grey with strong dark grain and open knots, the most contrasty board in the 14mm range. There is a faint blue note in the grey.High contrast grey is a decisive floor. It works in contemporary...
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Forest is a mid brown with a distinct olive green cast, darker than most of the 14mm range. The green is unmistakable next to a neutral brown board, and it is the reason to choose it.Olive-toned floors sit naturally with...
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Elegant is a light warm greige beige with fine, even grain and little contrast. It is the plainest of the 14mm boards and the most neutral.On the wide 2025 x 244mm plank, a quiet decor like this reads as a...





























