194sqm of hybrid herringbone laid in a display home at Lovedale Farm, built by one of Australia's biggest volume builders, one of the Hunter Valley's premier luxury estates, over a subfloor ground and levelled to the tight tolerances a herringbone floor demands.
Lovedale Farm is one of the Hunter Valley's premier luxury estates, and this was a display home built there by one of Australia's biggest volume builders, the house buyers walk through to picture their own build. A display home floor has to be flawless, it's the showpiece, so Australian Trade Floors was brought in to lay 194sqm of hybrid herringbone throughout. The work was contracted to us by the major flooring merchant that holds the supply contract with the builder.
Herringbone is one of the most unforgiving patterns to lay. Because every board sits at an angle to the next, any dip or high spot in the subfloor shows up instantly across the pattern, and small errors compound the further you go. A herringbone floor is only ever as good as the surface underneath it.
The groundwork was where this job was won. We fully prepared the subfloor with carefully planned diamond grinding to knock back the high spots, then levelling cement to fill and true the surface, working it until the slab met the flatness tolerances herringbone requires. Only once the base was right did we start laying.
Over that prepared subfloor we installed 194sqm of Preference Floors Easi-Plank 8.5mm hybrid herringbone in Natural, setting out the pattern so it ran clean and consistent through every room. The result is a floor that looks the part of a luxury display home and holds its line wall to wall.
A flawless herringbone floor running true throughout a volume-builder display home, the sort of finish that sells the estate to every buyer who walks the house. Delivered on the builder's program, and the reason the same team trusted us with the next home.
Herringbone and chevron laid properly, over a subfloor prepared to tolerance. Across the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Central Coast.
