For more than 50 years, Clarkes has been specialising in the supply and fitting of high-quality carpets, vinyl, LVT, laminate and engineered wooden flooring for homes and workplaces across Essex and East London. In line with government guidelines we have temporarily closed our showroom doors. Rest assured that we are still taking orders, offering home consultations, and providing our fitting service as normal. You can either email your enquiries or give us a call and we'll be happy to help! As a proud family-run business, Clarkes offers a warm welcome and unrushed, professional customer service.
Discover all there is to know about the largest independent flooring specialist in Essex, with over half a century of trading history, supplying and fitting premium flooring, furniture and lighting for homes across the county. Clarkes was formed in 1968 by Nobby Clarke and his son, Tim. The business' original location was in North Street, Romford. In 1972, the company relocated to our current premises on Roneo Corner, allowing us to offer a greater range of products and services. Since then, we've been on a quest for perfection, specifying, supplying and installing only the best flooring solutions for our customers.
Since 2014, Clarkes has been supplying high-quality table, floor, wall and ceiling lighting, with a vast portfolio of products from some manufacturers across the UK and beyond, ranging from practical to statement pieces for your household. For more than five years, Clarkes has stepped into the void to become the leading showroom for premium quality lighting in the Romford area. At our purpose-built store, we display over 250 ceiling lighting options in 21 different roomsets, with matching collections designed to give you inspiration about how you want your household to look and feel.
Hard flooring doesn't need to be boring or purely practical. At Clarkes, we supply and install a great range of design-led hard flooring brands, with a wide choice of inspirational, timeless colours and patterns. We are very proud of our dedicated hard flooring showroom displaying laminate, engineered wood, sheet vinyl, and luxury vinyl tile (LVT), with a new addition of vinyl-click floors. Showcasing manufacturers including Quickstep, Amtico, Karndean and many more, we are sure you'll find what you're looking for.
In our upholstery section we have all types and styles, recliners, sofas, occasional chairs and footstools in a traditional, modern and contemporary style. They are available in numerous coverings from fabrics to leather.
In 2014 we realised the need for a quality lighting showroom in the Essex area. A local family business and friend of the store ‘Havering Lighting' had decided to retire and there was no longer a lighting store available to service the local community. We undertook the task of creating our own unique area of lighting on the upper floor of our showroom and believe the results are stunning. With more than 250 lights on display all our 21 roomsets are used to show matching collections of Table Lamps, Floor Lamps, Wall Lights and Ceiling Lights in a fabulous homely environment.
Engineered flooring is designed to give you a real wood look and feel while reducing the issues that can occur with a solid product. It still has all the properties of real wood but is constructed by placing a very thick veneer on top of a more stable board such as HDF or Plywood. This allows the wood to expand and contract much better in the modern house. Due to the new heating systems a solid product can struggle to adapt with the very quick changes in temperature due to the radiators and lack of moisture in the air.
At Clarkes, we supply a great range of contemporary and traditional furniture for the home, spanning dining tables, occasional cabinets, three-piece suites and a vast selection of wall art and mirrors. Whether you're seeking a statement dining table and chairs as the centrepiece for your family home or a functional dining set for occasional use, at Clarkes we stock a great selection of dining sets in a wide variety of styles and finishes. In our Romford showroom, we display many of our available dining tables and chairs to help you imagine the possibilities in your own home.
As Essex's largest independent flooring supplier, at Clarkes we stock thousands of carpet types and varieties to suit all household needs at both ends of the budget spectrum. We specify a huge choice of styles, fibres and compositions - it's almost impossible not to find the carpet you require at our Romford showroom. With a loop pile carpet, the yarn forms loops on the surface of the carpet, either in uniform height, or with differing heights to create a textured loop pile. One of the main benefits of loop pile carpet weaves is that they offer no visible footprinting or shading.
At Clarkes, we demand nothing but the best flooring for our customers, which is why we take care of fitting your new flooring in-house. Our employed flooring installers are trained and accredited to the highest standards set by our manufacturers and have the same passion for flooring as us. Combine that with friendly, professional craftsmanship, why would you go anywhere else? With an end-to-end flooring service, we're committed to helping our customers achieve the best possible finish to their flooring.
At Clarkes, we employ a dedicated delivery team to oversee the safe and efficient transportation of all carpet and furniture orders. As a company, we pride ourselves on delivering your flooring and furniture in pristine order, with an off-the-shelf appearance, ready for fitting. We take great care in looking after your goods in transit until they are safely installed in your home. Providing your carpet or furniture is in stock, deliveries can be made to your Essex or East London home most weekdays.
We're committed to offering an end-to-end flooring service for homes and businesses across Essex and East London. As a highly reputable family-run business, our customers can avail themselves of a range of free services to make shopping for your new flooring a more pleasurable experience; putting you at ease about any concerns you may have about our products, deliveries or installations.
At Clarkes, we've been specifying a comprehensive range of sheet vinyl floor coverings for many years. Vinyl flooring offers practicality, versatility and impressive designs, at an affordable price. As we proudly supply flooring for households throughout Essex and East London, we know that many of our customers appreciate the practical benefits of sheet vinyl flooring. Not only is it easy to install, it offers a safe, convenient flooring solution that's family and pet-friendly thanks to wipe-clean surfaces.
Location is never a barrier when it comes to hand-picking the best luxury rugs for our customers. For many years, we've proudly specified premium rugs from all over the world. By casting the net far and wide to bespoke manufacturers and distributors, Clarkes customers can benefit from access to machine-made wiltons, hand-tufted rugs and exclusive hand-knotted rugs imported directly from Persia. Should you require a rug that's customised to an exact size or colour, our team would be delighted to assist.
We buy our rugs from all over the world allowing us to offer machine made wiltons to hand tufted and the exclusive hand knotted rugs from Persia. Our stock collection is in excess of 1000 items all displayed on hanging systems throughout the store allowing customers to view every rug in its full entirety at your leisure and in comfort. All shapes are accomodated for with circles and half moons on show. If for any reason you cannot find exactly what you are looking for your ‘Perfect Rug' then we offer a service of customising your rug to the exact size and colour of your choice.
Bought some laminate flooring so made sure I had enough have been told today they won't take back an excess pack, very disappointed as never told this at the beginning. Was told as they had to order it in they could not take back. With the range they have would have thought it's all ordered in.
Very very poor customer service. The incompetence is just incomprehensibl e. And still no finished floor. If I could give less than one star I would.
Just received a Huge bunch of flowers from clarkes, thanking me for my custom. Now that's customer service. Thank you for my flowers. They are beautiful.
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A huge choice of great value #carpets to suit every style and budget. Contact us for more details.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all our customers.