Hardwood Flooring in Funtington
Solid oak, walnut, ash and maple boards — character grades and feature widths.
Read moreFrom flint-and-brick cottages along Common Road to converted farm buildings on the lanes toward West Stoke — bespoke hardwood, sympathetic restoration and skilled parquet.
30 minutes from our Bognor Regis workshop · Covering PO18
Funtington is about thirty minutes from our Bognor Regis workshop, sitting just inside the South Downs National Park north-west of Chichester. It's a quiet linear village along the B2178 with a conservation area at its core — the kind of place where most of our work is in older cottages, converted farm buildings and the larger period houses tucked down the lanes toward West Stoke and West Ashling.
We see two patterns in PO18. Restoration in the flint-and-brick cottages along Common Road and around St Mary's — original pine or wide oak boards lifted, gap-filled, finished by hand. And installation in the converted farmhouses and extensions further out — wider-board engineered oak over underfloor heating, the occasional herringbone parquet in a refurbished reception room.
Funtington's housing stock is mostly older, often rural, and routinely sits within either the conservation area or the South Downs National Park boundary. That changes the work in two ways. In the period cottages we'll lift and patch original pine or oak rather than replace, gap-fill with traditional slivers, and finish with hand-buffed hardwax oils that keep the boards looking aged rather than glossed.
In the converted farm buildings and barn extensions we usually fit wider-board engineered oak — the stable core copes far better with the temperature swings of an exposed rural property than solid timber would. Either way we'll do the subfloor checks at survey and write the quote around what's actually under the boards, not what's hoped to be.
From flint-and-brick cottages on Common Road to farmhouse conversions through West Stoke, we lay and restore wood floors throughout Funtington and PO18 — since 1997.
Solid oak, walnut, ash and maple boards — character grades and feature widths.
Read moreSanding, gap-filling, hand-finishing — tired boards brought back without losing the character.
Read moreReal-wood top layers on stable cores — engineered for UFH and open-plan rooms.
Read moreGeorgian, Victorian and Edwardian houses — pitch pine, baltic deal, oak, sympathetic finishes.
Read moreHerringbone, chevron and Versailles panels — modern installs and period restoration.
Read moreFoyers, offices, retail and hospitality — traditional methods, delivered on schedule.
Read moreOvernight and weekend phasing — slip-rated matt finishes and food-safe sealers.
Read moreReclaimed boards and beer-tolerant finishes for country pubs, coaching inns and gastropubs.
Read moreMulti-room timber phased around occupancy — batch-matched corridor-to-bedroom, acoustic underlay.
Read moreGrade I, II* and II floors — sympathetic species, reversible methods advised where a listing demands.
Read moreCountry estate programmes phased around residence — restoration and new install under one spec.
Read moreEngineered oak properly specced for wet and electric UFH — written commissioning log on handover.
Read moreFrench oak, English elm, antique pitch pine — sourced with provenance, laid with respect to age.
Read moreEuropean white oak in 180mm–300mm+ planks, random lengths to 2.5m, hand-finished on site.
Read moreBarn weddings, country-house venues and marquee dance floors — Bona commercial-wear lacquer, seasonal install windows.
Read moreOur work in Funtington is anchored by the PO18 postcode — Conservation area covering the historic village core around St Mary's all sit squarely inside it. Around 30 minutes up from the Bognor Regis workshop — same craftsman every visit, flat-rate quotes by the job not the mile.
Across PO18 the Funtington brief stays the same: Darren surveys on-site, sample boards stay with you for a fortnight under your own lighting, and the install runs in a single solid stretch rather than back-and-forth day trips. It matters in places like Period farmhouses & converted farm buildings on the lanes through West Stoke where the subfloors and the building fabric earn a slower pass. Family team since 1997, working across West Sussex from the same coastal base.
Every wood flooring pattern, character finish and construction Darren installs — solid hardwood, engineered oak, herringbone and parquet — laid out edge-to-edge so you can see real grain, real colour, real texture.
Darren will visit, measure up and walk you through species, finishes and lead times. No pressure, no hard sell — just specialist advice.
Forrestal Flooring is the trusted flooring partner to award-winning interior design studio LEIVARS. The accolades below were won by LEIVARS for their interior schemes — we're proud to have supplied and fitted the floors behind many of them.