Tiling, bathrooms and kitchens in Daventry

Daventry's centre is an old market town, but much of today's housing came later: from the 1960s the town expanded to take overspill from Birmingham, adding large estates of family homes. Decades on, those houses are prime candidates for new bathrooms, kitchens and floors.

More recently, Middlemore and Monksmoor have added newer homes on the edges of the town, with Borough Hill and the reservoir country park close by. New homes tend to come with simple, standard tiling, and replacing it with a feature splashback or a large-format floor is one of the most effective upgrades you can make.

Around the town, villages such as Long Buckby, Braunston on the canal, Weedon Bec, Badby and Welton are full of ironstone and brick cottages. Older properties like these often need extra preparation, from levelling solid floors to dealing with walls that have moved over the years.