Specifier guide -- Hospitality
Hospitality flooring -- restaurants, hotels, bars.
Engineered oak in herringbone or plank for dining floors. Cork plank for seating zones, bar areas and circulation. Specified across UK hospitality on rolling chain rollouts and one-off destination interiors -- with PTV 36+ pendulum (on request with additional finish), IIC 73 acoustic, BREEAM Mat 03 Exemplary and a 10-year commercial warranty.
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Stirrups Hotel, Bracknell -- Winderen herringbone Pisa.
Studio ROWE specified Winderen herringbone Pisa across the restaurant, bar and reception of Stirrups Hotel -- a single material running through the full ground floor public spaces. The herringbone reads as period gesture but performs as modern engineered: 2-6mm European oak top layer, FSC certified, UFH-compatible, low cradle-to-gate carbon.
Continuous floor specification across multiple zones reduces transition detail risk and reads as a confident interior decision -- the floor doesn't shout.
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Project anchors
Hospitality floors, specified.
Pomus, Margate
Independent wine bar -- Classic Cork, glue-down
Turtle Bay, Blackpool
Caribbean chain -- Winderen plank + Classic Cork (MorenoMasey)
Pantechnicon Sachi
Belgravia destination dining -- Vermont (Sagrada)
Recent hospitality project: The River Lee Hotel.
"Hospitality floors are the hardest-working in the building. They handle rolling stock, spilled drinks, every guest's first impression and post-occupancy noise complaints. The floor decision sits underneath the rest of the design."
Why these materials, in hospitality
Cork and engineered oak, by application.
R10 / PTV 36+ on request
Cork delivers R9 (DIN 51130), PTV 36+ on request -- BS 5395 compliant for stairs, bar and dining floor. Survives spilled drinks, food service traffic and front-of-house wear.
IIC 71-73
Cork's closed-cell structure absorbs impact noise. Materially reduces footfall transmission across multi-storey hotel and restaurant interiors compared to LVT.
Herringbone / plank
Engineered oak in herringbone reads as period gesture and performs as modern engineered. Plank for cleaner contemporary interiors and brand-defined chain rollouts.
BREEAM + FSC
Mat 03 Exemplary on cork; FSC certified Winderen oak; PEFC + Eco Institut M1 on Vermont. Documentation supplied per project.
-101
kg CO&sub2;e/m² net
Carbon negative once balanced with carbon sequestration. The cork tree absorbs more CO&sub2; across its 9-year regenerative growth cycle than is emitted in cradle-to-gate manufacture. Net-negative GWP per the EPD.
Class B
fire rating standard
Bfl-s1 per EN 13501-1 across the range. Specified into commercial floors without additional fire treatment.
Zero
PVC in construction
No PVC. Cork plank + cork core + cork backing + UV-cured polyurethane wear-layer. Specified into WELL, healthcare and SKA fit-outs that exclude vinyl.
Adjacent sector -- retail
Asics, Tokyo flagship -- Classic Cork.
Hospitality and retail share floor briefs: high-traffic, brand-aware, acoustic-conscious. Asics specified Classic Cork in Original Shell across the Tokyo flagship -- the same material story you'd find in a London restaurant interior, scaled to flagship retail.
Cork as a brand material reads internationally because it doesn't try too hard.
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BREEAM + PTV 36+ on request documentation supplied.
Full TDS, EPD and slip-rating evidence packs. Adhesive selection guidance for glue-down hospitality install. Architect-channel BREEAM Mat 03 + Hea 02 evidence at sample stage. Site sample presentations at your studio or on-site.
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Cork, Winderen, Vermont. 100mm samples, delivered.
Order specifier samples + a slip + acoustic + BREEAM evidence pack for your hospitality project. London, Manchester, Edinburgh -- 30-min product presentation at your studio.
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Specifier landingSustainable Flooring London -- BREEAM, FSC, EPD documentationRangeClassic Cork Collection -- 7mm BREEAM Exemplary cork plankRangeCork Styles Collection -- 11mm Personality decor rangeRangeWinderen Collection -- FSC European oak, herringbone + plankRangeVermont Collection -- hybrid wood-powder constructionDetailWinderen Oversized Herringbone -- up to 1500mm blocksApplicationCork Flooring on StairsPlanning a hospitality specification?
Start with our hospitality flooring overview to match ranges to your brief, or go straight to cork flooring for hospitality and engineered wood flooring for hospitality. Then go deeper on the evidence: dent-resistant engineered wood for bar fronts and waiter runs, Part E acoustic flooring for hotel bedroom floors, and PTV slip resistance for wet service areas. Or browse the boards behind these projects in the Winderen engineered oak collection and Classic Cork Collection.