Inside a Real Edinburgh Installation: The Wooden Floor Store and Rocks Property Restoration

• Kieran McGrath

Choosing your flooring from the wooden floor store, is only half the story. The other half? Finding a fitter you can trust to do it justice.

That's why we love working alongside tradespeople like Tim and the team at Rocks Property Restoration - Edinburgh's specialist flooring and stair installers who bring the same attention to detail to every job that we put into sourcing every board on our shelves.

Over the years, a number of our customers have chosen Rocks Property to lay their floors, and the results speak for themselves. Here's a look at what really goes into a professional wood floor installation and why the finishing details matter just as much as the flooring itself.

The Floors Our Customers Have Chosen

Our range has featured in some beautiful Edinburgh homes through Rocks Property's work, including:

Engineered wood herringbone in living rooms and dining rooms, a pattern that demands precision from the very first board. Herringbone has surged in popularity for good reason: it adds instant character to a space and works beautifully in both period Edinburgh tenements and modern new builds. One of our customers, Becca, had engineered herringbone laid by Tim's team and described herself as "over the moon with it."

Oak wood herringbone - another customer, Emma, went away on holiday and came home to a lounge transformed with oak herringbone flooring. "I got such a wonderful surprise at the amazing job they had done," she told us. Tim had even coordinated new radiator installation before the floor went down — exactly the kind of joined-up thinking that protects your investment.

Kitchen oak flooring - one of the trickier rooms to floor well, with kick boards, appliances, and awkward angles to navigate. Rocks Property's recent Instagram content shows exactly how they handle this: removing kick boards, undercutting them to sit flush over the new floor, and reinstalling for a seamless finish.

Limed oak laminate - for bedrooms and lower-traffic areas where a quality laminate makes excellent practical and financial sense without compromising on look or feel.

What a Professional Installation Actually Involves

Watching Rocks Property's behind-the-scenes content is a masterclass in why professional installation matters. Here are a few of the details that separate a great fit from a rushed one:

Undercutting door frames and fire doors. Rather than cutting your flooring short and filling the gap with an unsightly threshold strip, a skilled fitter undercuts the door frame so the floor slides neatly underneath. It's a small detail with a big visual impact, the floor flows continuously through the doorway as if the frame was always built around it.

Handmade stair nosings. On staircase projects, Rocks Property hand-craft each stair nosing to match the floor exactly. This kind of bespoke joinery work is what turns a nice floor into a cohesive, considered home.

Skirting removal, caulking and reinstatement. Skirting boards come off before installation and go back on after, then caulked for a perfect, professional edge. It's the difference between a finish that looks like it belongs and one that looks like an afterthought.

Subfloor preparation. Before a single plank goes down, the subfloor needs to be level, dry, and stable. This is one of the most important steps in any installation and one that's easiest to skip if a fitter is cutting corners.

Why the Right Fitter Protects Your Floor Investment

At The Wooden Floor Store, we put a lot of care into the quality of what we sell. But even the finest engineered oak or premium laminate can be let down by a poor installation. Boards that creak, edges that lift, or patterns that don't line up.

A fitter like Rocks Property understands that the floor you've chosen is an investment, and they treat it accordingly. That means:

  • Allowing the floor to acclimatise properly before installation (see our guide on wood floor acclimatisation)
  • Checking subfloor moisture levels before laying anything
  • Leaving the correct expansion gaps at walls and fixed points
  • Taking the time on finishing details - the cut around a hearth, the transition at a doorway, the return at the bottom of the stairs

These aren't luxuries. They're what separates a floor that lasts decades from one that causes problems within a year.

Thinking About Your Own Project?

If you're based in Edinburgh or the surrounding area and you're looking for a trusted installer to work with your new flooring, Rocks Property Restoration are well worth a call. You can see their recent project work and get in touch via rockspropertyrestoration.co.uk.

And if you haven't chosen your floor yet, that's where we come in. Browse our full range of engineered wood, solid wood, laminate, and LVT in our showrooms or online at www.thewoodenfloorstore.com and find the floor that's right for your home before a single board goes down.

Because the best installations start with the right floor. And the right floor starts here.

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