HALFORDS FLOORING REFURBISHMENT PROGRAMME

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Hull Flooring has managed the Halfords flooring refurbishment programme since 2025, delivering across 26 stores nationwide with more to follow. The team stripped out each site and re-laid it overnight, handing it back clean and trading-ready by morning.

Why this space matters

A Halfords store carries a lot of weight for its size. Bikes stacked on racks, car batteries on shelves, tools and parts in every aisle, customers walking through with trolleys and loose stock. The floor takes constant punishment from product loads, foot traffic, and the odd oil spill, and it must look the part. These aren't showrooms. They're working retail spaces where people come in, find what they need, and get on with their day.

This is not just a floor...

It’s 26 of them, from South Yorkshire to Southern Ireland

The brief

Halfords brought in Hull Flooring to manage a rolling nationwide refurbishment programme, starting with 15 stores in early 2025 and continuing into 2026, with another 11 completed so far. Each store required removing and replacing 600 to 800 square metres of existing flooring, all carried out overnight while the stores stayed operational. The programme spans England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with every site meeting Halfords' national brand standard regardless of location. Cortonwood Retail Park in South Yorkshire was one of the recent completions.

Making it work

Overnight retail refurbishments are a grind. The window is tight (strip-out, prep, install, clean, gone before the doors open) and there's no room to overrun. Hull Flooring's teams used Arditex NA smoothing compound to prepare the subfloor and Unilin Moduleo LVT for the finished surface, a combination that holds up well under the heavy, varied traffic a Halfords store generates.

Each site came with its own quirks. Access arrangements, other trades on site, local building conditions that didn't match the drawings. The skill is keeping the output consistent when nothing else is. Twenty-six stores over two years, across the UK and Ireland, all delivered to the same spec and standard. That takes planning, skilled teams, and coordination you only get from doing this many stores.

The result

We've handed back every store on time, to spec, and without losing a single day of trading to the works. The floors do exactly what they should: support heavy retail use, look clean and professional, and quietly reinforce the Halfords brand across the estate.

David Garbutt, Project Manager at Halfords, put it plainly:

"Hull Flooring are professional from start to completion on every project. They build strong relationships on site and give confidence through reliable delivery time after time"

The programme continues, with further stores scheduled through the remainder of 2026, and we have already started our allocation for early 2027.