JW Floors& Joinery · Wirral
Over 15 years in all aspects of joinery

Floors that last
years and years,
not months.

Flooring and joinery across the Wirral, from a workshop in New Ferry with the boards on display so you can see them before you choose.

15+ yearsAll aspects of joinery
Subfloor prepScreeds and DPMs
A shopBoards on display
New FerryBirkenhead, Wirral
Fitted joineryMade on site
One joinerNot a chain
Why floors fail

It is almost never the floor

A floor that lifts, cups or gaps after a year was usually fitted onto a subfloor that was never prepared. That is the part nobody sees, and the part he trains for.

Regular flooring courses in subfloor preparation, working with screeding compounds and damp proof membranes. JW Floors & Joinery

Screeding compound levels a floor that is out. A damp proof membrane stops moisture coming up through concrete and pushing a wood floor apart from underneath.

Skip either and the floor above it is on borrowed time, whatever it cost. Which is why the promise here is years and years, not months.

What goes in before the boards

  • The old covering and adhesive taken up properly
  • The subfloor checked for level and for damp
  • Screeding compound where it is out
  • A damp proof membrane where concrete needs one
  • The right underlay for the room, not whatever is in the van
What he does

Floors and joinery

Two trades that belong together, because a floor almost always meets a door, a skirting or a stair.

Wood flooring

Supplied and laid, with the subfloor prepared first so it stays flat and quiet.

Subfloor preparation

Levelling with screeding compounds and damp proofing, which is where most floors are won or lost.

Fitted joinery

Alcove units, wardrobes, shelving and cupboards made to the room rather than bought to fit it.

Second fix

Doors, skirting, architrave, stairs and the trims that finish a floor off properly.

The shop

See it before you choose it

Display stands in the shop

Most flooring gets chosen from a phone screen, and a screen cannot show grain, sheen or how a board feels underfoot. There is a shop in New Ferry with the boards standing up where you can look at them.

Colour on a screen is not colour in your hallway. Two oaks that look identical online can sit completely differently against your skirting and your light.

Walk in, look along the stands, take a sample home. It costs nothing and it is the reason people do not end up with a floor they never quite liked.

Placeholder — needs the shop address and hours

The shop is mentioned in your own listing but the street address and opening hours are not published anywhere, so they are left blank rather than guessed at. Send them and this becomes a "come and see us" section with a map.

The work

Boards down

Placeholder — needs your photos

Flooring is the one trade that sells itself in photographs. A laid oak floor in daylight, a levelled subfloor before the boards go on, a fitted alcove unit. Six off a phone is plenty, and they would carry this whole page.

Laid floor
Subfloor prepped
Fitted joinery
The shop
Get a price

What is the room?

Rough size, what is down now, and what you would like on top. That is enough to talk sensibly about it.