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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Raggio is a very pale pink-cream: the lightest warm board in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range, with a soft blush cast and almost no visible grain contrast. Where Bianco is cool and near-white, Raggio carries enough warmth to keep a...
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Pastel is a pale pink-mauve greige: the softest and most delicate board in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range, with barely any grain contrast and a gentle blush cast. Very soft floors like this suit rooms meant to feel calm: bedrooms,...
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NSW Spotted Gum is a warm golden-amber board with the honey and soft brown variation that makes the species recognisable: the only Australian hardwood look in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range, which is otherwise built around European oak tones. Spotted...
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Misto is a warm golden honey oak: clean, bright and evenly grained, one of the two genuinely golden boards in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range. Golden oak is the traditional Australian floor and it dates less than any other tone....
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Kaldi is the most distinctive board in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range: a weathered grey-green with a soft sage cast and visible striation, and the only genuinely green-toned floor in the Bass Timber catalogue. Green-grey is an unusual choice and...
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Crema is a pale warm greige-tan: soft, gently sandy and low in contrast, the warmest of the pale neutrals in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range. Warm pale floors are the most forgiving of the light options. The sandy cast keeps...
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Coastal Blackbutt is worth looking at carefully, because the name will set the wrong expectation for anyone who knows the timber. This is not the golden tone of Australian blackbutt. It is a pale pinkish-beige greige, soft and cool-leaning, much...
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Caramello is a pale mauve-greige: a soft neutral with a faint pink-brown cast that sets it slightly apart from the cooler greys in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range. That touch of warmth matters more than it sounds. A cool grey...
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Bianco is the palest board in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range: a very light white-grey with soft grain and minimal contrast, closer to limed or bleached timber than to any natural oak tone. A floor this pale is a decision...
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Arabica is a pale greige with fine grey striation running through the grain: cool, quiet and low in contrast, one of the most restrained boards in the 10mm Hybrid Plus range. The striation keeps it from looking flat. A plain...
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Bonita White Oak is a pale cream oak with a faint pink-grey cast and soft grain, the quietest of the range's pale boards. It is not a stark white; it is the colour of unstained oak under a clear matt,...
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Bonita Smoked Brown is a mid to dark warm brown with a caramel undertone and clear oak grain, the colour of a traditional stained oak floor. It is lighter and browner than Cuban, which runs red, and far warmer than...
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Bonita Natural Oak is the range's oak left close to its own colour: a light to mid warm honey with pink in the paler boards, clear cathedral grain and plenty of knots. It has the widest variation of the Bonita...
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Bonita Lime Wash is a pale pink-beige oak with the grain brushed out in white, the limed version of the range's pale boards. It sits between Latte Oak and Grey Wash: warmer than the grey, more textured than the latte.A...
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Bonita Latte Oak is a pale oak with a soft pink-cream cast and a light limed grain, a shade warmer and pinker than White Oak and cooler than Cotton Oak. The three pale Bonitas are close, so compare samples side...
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Bonita Grey Wash is a mid grey with the oak grain picked out in white, a limed finish that leaves the texture of the timber visible through the colour. It is a true grey rather than a greige, with a...
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Bonita Cuban is a deep red-brown oak with a strong cathedral grain in near-black, a colour closer to jarrah or a dark mahogany than to any natural oak. It is the warm dark board in the range, where Brescia is...
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Bonita Cotton Oak is a pale cream oak with a soft yellow warmth, gentle grain, a few small knots and the occasional darker streak. It is the warmest of the range's pale boards: White Oak and Latte Oak sit pinker...
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Bonita Brescia is the darkest board in the range, a charcoal so deep it reads almost black, with a faint green-grey cast and the oak grain showing through as a slightly lighter figure. The oak grain is still there under...
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Quercus Welsh Cream is the palest board in the range, a cream-white oak with a faint pink-grey cast and soft, low-contrast grain. It is lighter than Latte Oak and warmer than Rana.A cream-white floor is for a light, low-contrast room:...
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Quercus Rana is a pale grey-greige oak with soft grain and a cool cast, the greyest of the pale boards in the range. It is cooler than Latte Oak and Welsh Cream and lighter than Aliena.Pale cool oak suits contemporary...
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Quercus Patraea is a mid warm honey oak with strong cathedral grain, scattered knots and a good spread between paler and deeper boards. It is the traditional oak colour in the range, the one people picture when they say oak...
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Features: Type: Engineered European Oak Dimension: 1900mm (length) x 190mm (width) x 15mm (thickness including 4mm veneer) Pack Size: 2.166sqm/box Pack Weight: 21.5kg Finish: 5%-8% Matt finish Bevel: Micro Profile: Tongue and Groove (TNG) Grade: ABCD
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Quercus Latte Oak is a pale oak with a pink-cream cast and a light limed grain, the same tone as Bonita's Latte Oak but on the thicker 15/4mm board. It is warmer than Rana and a shade deeper than Welsh...
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