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Installation of the Year 2025 Contract Flooring Journal Awards

Commercial flooring contractors The whole floor, from slab to skirting.

Subfloor preparation, screeds, raised access, finishes and hygienic wall cladding from one team, for main contractors across the Midlands, London and the South East.

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  • Since 1981Family-owned, founded in Leicester
  • 8 CFJ awardsSince 2021, including Installation of the Year
  • 23,000 m²Our largest published package, for Vinci
What we lay, layer by layer

Main contractors we’ve delivered for

  • Kier
  • Willmott Dixon
  • Bowmer + Kirkland
  • Vinci
  • Galliford Try
  • Clegg
  • Curo Construction
  • Wates

One package, every layer

A floor is only as good as what’s underneath it. So we do the lot.

Flooring is one of the last trades on site, so it soaks up everyone else’s delays. Give us the whole package and there are no gaps between trades for the programme to slip into: one subcontractor, one programme and one point of responsibility for the finished floor.

  • Below the finish

    Subfloor preparation

    Diamond grinding, shot blasting and uplift of old finishes, with crack and joint repairs, so every finish starts on a sound, clean base.

  • Below the finish

    Screeds and membranes

    Pumped and traditional screeds, surface damp-proof membranes and latex smoothing compounds, so a wet slab doesn’t hold up the programme.

  • Below the finish

    Raised access floors

    Steel-encapsulated, bare-faced and edge-banded panel systems to PSA grades, with the finishes laid on top by the same team.

  • The finish

    Safety and resilient flooring

    Safety vinyl, sheet vinyl, LVT, linoleum and rubber, heat-welded and coved for clean, wet and clinical areas.

  • The finish

    Carpet and entrance matting

    Carpet tiles, broadloom and custom carpets, plus entrance matting that keeps dirt and water off the floors behind it.

  • The finish

    Timber and sports floors

    Engineered and solid timber, parquet, sprung sports floors and line marking for halls, studios and receptions.

  • The finish

    Resin floor coatings

    Epoxy and polyurethane coatings and anti-slip resin for plant rooms, kitchens and back-of-house areas.

  • Up the walls

    Hygienic wall cladding

    Altro Whiterock and BioClad wall cladding with coved skirting, for kitchens, washrooms and clinical rooms that have to stay clean.

The awkward jobs

Where flooring packages go wrong, and how we keep them on track.

  • The layer: screed and DPM

    23,000 m²

    Wet screed on a 36-week programme

    At Bishopsgate student accommodation in Coventry, the screed held too much moisture to take the finishes. We applied a surface DPM and smoothing compound across all 23,000 m² of phase one, then laid the finishes over 36 weeks for Vinci.

    Bishopsgate, Coventry, for Vinci

  • The layer: slab preparation

    9,000 m²

    Slabs too polished for a membrane

    At Katherine Warington School in Harpenden, the concrete was too dense and polished for a damp-proof membrane to bond. We prepared it mechanically first, then laid safety vinyl, carpet tiles, matting and a sprung timber sports floor for Kier.

    Winner, Flooring in Education, CFJ Awards 2021

  • The layer: raised access

    3 weeks

    Raised access on a fast-track programme

    Our access flooring team installed 3,000 m² of steel-encapsulated, PSA-grade raised access floor across the open-plan offices at Prologis Park, Birmingham, in under three weeks.

    Prologis Park, Birmingham, for Benniman

  • The layer: finishes, overnight

    Overnight

    Shops and banks that can’t close

    We’ve refitted Barclays branches and 24-hour Tesco stores overnight: protecting stock and equipment, vetting every operative and finishing each night’s work to programme so trading carried on next morning.

    Retail programmes across England and Wales

Contract Flooring Journal Awards 2025

Installation of the Year: Bechstein Hall, London.

Our floors at Bechstein Hall on Wigmore Street won the top prize at the 2025 Contract Flooring Journal (CFJ) Awards. The building is home to a flagship piano showroom, a 100-seat recital hall and accommodation, and the project also won the Visitor Attractions category.

Working with Ted Todd, Forbo, Milliken, Mapei, Cellecta and Sasgo.

Our Contract Flooring Journal awards

  1. 2026Winner, HotelsThe Belfry Hotel and Resort, Brabazon House
  2. 2026Winner, RetailDowntown Garden Centre, Grantham
  3. 2025Installation of the YearBechstein Hall, London
  4. 2025Winner, Visitor AttractionsBechstein Hall, London
  5. 2025Winner, EducationEmmanuel Community School, Walthamstow, for Kier
  6. 2025Third place, Installation of the YearShakespeare House, Cambridge
  7. 2024Winner, OfficesShinfield Studios, Reading, for Curo Construction
  8. 2023Winner, Community Venues and Public SpacesWren Academy and Community Hub
  9. 2021Winner, Flooring in Education (Schools)Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, for Kier

Selected work

Projects, with the numbers that matter.

Main contractor, area, value and programme wherever we’ve published them, so you can judge the fit at a glance. Choose a sector to see what we do there.

  • Amtico Spacia Acoustic

    Student accommodation

    Bishopsgate Student Accommodation

    Coventry, phase one

    Main contractor
    Vinci
    Area
    23,000 m²
    Value
    £700,000
    Programme
    36 weeks
  • Raised access and Forbo carpet tiles

    Offices and studios

    Shinfield Studios

    Reading, Berkshire

    Main contractor
    Curo Construction
    Raised access
    3,000 m²+
    Scope
    Six buildings

    CFJ Awards 2024, Offices winner

  • Altro Aquarius safety flooring

    Healthcare

    Cygnet Health hospital

    Coventry

    Main contractor
    Clegg
    Area
    8,000 m²
    Value
    £200,000
    Programme
    25 weeks
  • Sprung timber sports floor

    Education

    Katherine Warington School

    Harpenden, Hertfordshire

    Main contractor
    Kier
    Area
    9,000 m²
    Scope
    Main school and sports hall

    CFJ Awards 2021, Education winner

  • Interface carpet tiles and LVT

    Offices and visitor attraction

    Harry Potter Studio Tour extension

    Leavesden, Hertfordshire

    Main contractor
    Bowmer + Kirkland
    Area
    4,000 m²
    Value
    £180,000
    Programme
    8 weeks
  • Heckmondwike Supacord

    Education

    Emmanuel Community School

    Walthamstow, London

    Main contractor
    Kier
    Area
    748 m²
    Scope
    Two floors and stairs

    CFJ Awards 2025, Education winner

  • Our offices
  • Projects we’ve delivered
  • Retail refits

Projects in London, Reading, Leavesden, Harpenden, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Colchester, Coventry, Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Grantham, Telford, Rocester and York, plus overnight retail refits at 39 locations.

Coverage

Two offices. Floors laid from Northumberland to South Wales.

We work from Broughton Astley in Leicestershire and Laindon in Essex, and our teams go wherever the job is. Retail programmes alone have taken us from Ashington in Northumberland to Penarth, near Cardiff.

Midlands office

Unit 11 Swannington Road, Cottage Lane Industrial Estate, Broughton Astley, Leicester LE9 6TU

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London and South East office

Unit 19 Saffron Court, Southfields Industrial Park, Laindon, Essex SS15 6SS

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Both offices: 01455 284 433 or info@westcotesflooring.co.uk

Approvals

Quick to approve onto your supply chain.

We’re members of the Contract Flooring Association. Carl Harper, our London managing director, was its president from 2022 to 2024 and is now its treasurer. Ask for our pre-qualification documents and we’ll send our accreditation certificates, insurances and policies.

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  • Contract Flooring Association

    Full contractor members, vetted and audited

  • Constructionline

    Pre-qualification for public and private sector buyers

  • CHAS

    Health and safety assessment, including PAS 91 modules

  • Acclaim

    SSIP-recognised health and safety assessment

  • CSCS

    Skills cards for our site teams

  • Recofloor

    Vinyl take-back scheme members, Bronze award 2025

Sustainability and social value

Less waste, and the figures to prove it.

We recycle through the Recofloor, Proplex, F. Ball and Forbo Back to the Floor schemes, we can specify adhesive-free systems such as magnetic-tab carpet tiles and loose-lay LVT, and we measure what we divert.

In 2019 we joined Willmott Dixon’s community challenge to refit a training space for Guide Dogs at Leamington Spa, free of charge, with materials donated by Bostik, Tarkett and Heckmondwike.

  • 86 m³of material diverted by closed-loop recycling on one job, at Colchester Hospital
  • Bronzefor vinyl waste collection at the Recofloor Awards 2025
  • 5electric vehicle charge points across our two offices
  • FITAreceives our usable offcuts to train new floorlayers

About Westcotes

Family-owned since 1981, and still growing.

Carl Nicol founded Westcotes in Leicester in 1981. More than four decades on, the company is still family-owned, has a second office serving London and the South East, and won the industry’s Installation of the Year in 2025. Carl Nicol received the Contract Flooring Journal Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

  • Kirk Nicol

    Group Managing Director

  • Carl Harper

    Managing Director, London. CFA President 2022 to 2024, now Treasurer

  • Adam Conway

    Contracts Director

  • Philip Green

    Director

…found them to be proactive and helpful on site, always achieve challenging programmes, provide prompt and robust pricing information at tender stage and commercially on the money when compared to other flooring contractors.

Jason Stanbridge Project Manager at Mansell (now Balfour Beatty), on why Westcotes became one of their contractors of choice

Good to know

Questions package managers ask us.

Something else? Call 01455 284 433 or email info@westcotesflooring.co.uk.

What size of flooring package do you take on?

Anything from a single room to a multi-phase package. Our largest published package covered 23,000 m² over 36 weeks on phase one of Bishopsgate in Coventry, for Vinci, and many of our school, hospital and office packages run to several thousand square metres.

Do you only work for main contractors?

Most of our work comes through main contractors, but we also work directly for schools, hospitals, local authorities and businesses, including out-of-hours work in occupied buildings.

Can you deal with damp screeds and poor slabs?

Yes. Preparation is part of our package, not a separate trade. We prepare slabs by grinding or shot blasting, apply surface DPMs where a screed is too wet to wait for, and lay smoothing compounds so the finish goes down on a sound, level base.

Do you install raised access floors as well as finishes?

Yes. We install steel-encapsulated, bare-faced and edge-banded raised access systems to PSA grades and lay the finishes on top, so an office or fit-out gets one flooring contractor instead of two.

Which areas do you cover?

We work from two offices, in Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, and Laindon, Essex. Most of our work is across the Midlands, London, the South East and the East of England, and we travel further for programmes and roll-outs.

What do you need to price a tender?

Drawings, a finishes schedule or specification, the programme and your return date. Upload them with the form on this page, or send a link to the tender portal or file share and we’ll take it from there.

How do you handle flooring waste?

We recycle through the Recofloor, Proplex, F. Ball and Forbo Back to the Floor schemes, and we give usable offcuts to the Flooring Industry Training Association (FITA) for training. On one job alone, at Colchester Hospital, closed-loop recycling diverted 86 m³ of material.

Can we buy flooring from you without fitting?

Yes, through our online shop, UK Flooring Supplies Online, which supplies carpet tiles, LVT, vinyl, matting and installation materials.

Send us your tender

Tell us about the job. We’ll price every layer.

Attach drawings, a specification or a finishes schedule, or paste a link to the tender portal. If you only need our pre-qualification documents, choose that option and we’ll send them over.

  • Preparation, screeds and finishes priced together, so nothing falls between trades
  • Value engineering options from our estimating team when the budget is tight
  • Help from specification through to completion and aftercare

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