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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Guardian Blackbutt is a soft warm golden-tan with a smooth face and very little contrast from plank to plank. Australian blackbutt in solid timber lays paler than this, with more olive in it and more gum vein showing, so expect...
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Sunset is the warmest design in the Obsidian herringbone range: a rich amber-brown with visible grain that gives the pattern real depth. Where the greys read as contemporary, this one leans traditional, and it sits naturally in period homes, Federation...
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Spotted Gum herringbone brings together Australia's most recognisable timber and the pattern that has defined European flooring for three centuries. The species' natural range of honey, chocolate and soft grey plays particularly well in a herringbone lay, because the alternating...
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Night Wind is the darkest design in the Obsidian herringbone range: a deep, near-charcoal timber that turns the pattern into something architectural rather than decorative. In the right room it is the most striking floor we sell; in the wrong...
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Grey Leaf is the softest and lightest of the Obsidian herringbone designs: a pale grey-beige with gentle grain movement that keeps the pattern visible without weight. It is the choice for rooms that need brightening, or where herringbone might otherwise...
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Estate Grey Oak is the cool neutral of the Obsidian herringbone range: a soft, slightly weathered grey oak that lets the pattern do the talking. Where a strong timber tone can make herringbone feel busy, this one reads as texture...
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Blackbutt in herringbone is an unusual combination and a striking one. Blackbutt's pale golden tone and fine straight grain are subtle on their own; laid at 45 degrees in a herringbone pattern, that quiet grain becomes a repeating chevron that...
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AquaGlow Spotted Gum is the widest and longest spotted gum laminate we stock: 1830mm boards at 195mm wide, which is a meaningfully more expansive proportion than the 1216mm boards common at this price. Fewer joins across a room, and the...
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Park Oak is a pale grey-beige, cool, light and quiet, with fine grain that gives it texture without pattern. It's the most understated board in the AquaGlow range and the one to choose when the floor is meant to disappear...
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New York Oak is a natural mid-light oak: a warm sandy beige with a subtle greige cast and clear knot and grain detail running through the boards. It sits between Berlin Oak and Caramel Oak in depth, which makes it...
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Los Angeles Oak is the warmest of the pale boards: a sandy blonde oak with a clear golden undertone and soft grain movement. It brings light into a room without the coolness of a grey-washed floor, which makes it a...
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London Oak is a greyed taupe: a mid-tone brown with the warmth pulled back and a soft grey wash over the grain. It's the most contemporary board in the AquaGlow range, and the one that sits most comfortably in apartments...
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Hamburg Oak is the palest board in the AquaGlow range: a soft cream-greige with a faint cool cast and delicate, fine grain running through it. It's the closest thing here to a limed or whitewashed oak, and it does more...
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Caramel Oak is warmer and deeper than the pale boards in the AquaGlow range: a mid greyish-brown with enough warmth to feel inviting but not enough to read as golden or orange. It's the middle ground of the range, and...
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Berlin Oak is the most neutral board in the AquaGlow range: a light natural oak with soft, even grain and no strong pull towards warm or cool. It's the safe specification when the rest of the room isn't settled yet,...
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Hydrocore Spotted Gum gives you Australia's most popular timber look with a 72 hour waterproof rating: three days for a spill to be found and cleaned up without damage. That is the specification that makes laminate genuinely usable in kitchens,...
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Golden Fog is a pale, misty grey oak with only the faintest warm undertone holding it back from a true cool grey. The name is more about that warmth than any actual gold. It reads as limed or softly weathered...
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Ginger Ale is a warm golden oak with genuine character, flowing cathedral grain, visible knots and enough variation between boards that the floor has movement across a whole room rather than reading as one printed tone. That grain is doing...
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Fortune Cookie is a light warm sandy blonde: a soft biscuit-toned oak with fine, straight, even grain and very little variation between boards. It is the calmest of the warm boards in the Hydrocore range, where Ginger Ale is more...
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Firewood is worth looking at before you judge it by the name. It is not a warm red-brown. It is a pale, cool greige, a soft washed grey-beige with low contrast and fine grain, and it is one of the...
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Cafe Noir is the darkest board in the Hydrocore range: a deep chocolate brown with strong, dramatic grain running through it and enough contrast between the light and dark passages that the floor reads as timber rather than a flat...
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Brandy is a mid honey oak: warm, golden and even, with fine straight grain and very little colour variation from board to board. Despite the name it is not a dark floor; it sits in the middle of the Hydrocore...
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Hydrocore Blackbutt pairs the pale golden tone of Australian blackbutt with a 72 hour waterproof rating: the specification that makes laminate viable in rooms it would normally be kept out of. Spills can sit for three days without swelling the...
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Washed Oak is a soft pale greige: a light, limed-looking oak with fine grain and a gentle warm-neutral cast. It's one of the brightest boards in the MTF range and a good choice for opening up smaller rooms or spaces...
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