Ted Todd Engineered Wood Flooring: The Complete Brand Guide

Ted Todd is arguably the most recognisable premium wood flooring name in the UK. The brand has been making a very specific kind of engineered wood — 2-ply, thick hardwood wear layers, European oak at the heart of almost every collection — for over thirty years, and its collections sit on the floors of a lot of award-winning interiors. If you’re researching Ted Todd as a serious option, this guide covers what the brand actually makes, how the eight engineered collections differ, and where Ted Todd sits against our own-brand engineered wood at Grosvenor Flooring.

We stock and fit premium engineered wood across our Altrincham showroom, and we’ve also built an in-house range designed and sourced direct from European mills. Our job here isn’t to tell you Ted Todd is the wrong choice — for a lot of buyers, it’s exactly the right one. Our job is to give you enough spec-level honesty to decide with your eyes open.

Who Ted Todd is, and who the brand is for

Ted Todd sits at the top end of the UK engineered wood market. The brand’s signature is a 2-ply construction — a thick hardwood top layer bonded directly to a birch plywood base, rather than the more common 3-layer sandwich — which gives their premium collections an unusually generous hardwood wear layer. On flagship ranges like Classic Futures® and the thicker Warehouse builds, that wear layer is a full 6mm, which is as close as engineered wood gets to the refinishing life of a traditional solid-wood floor.

The brand’s positioning is design-led: Absolute Matt Lacquer® as a proprietary finish, a strong list of interior-design awards behind the Residence® collection, a Create® collection sold as a modular design system, and a Specialist Woods line that covers exotic species most engineered wood brands don’t touch. If you’re working with a designer, chances are Ted Todd is already in the sample drawer.

It is also, correctly, the most expensive engineered wood brand most UK homeowners will seriously consider. Specifying Ted Todd is a statement about priorities as much as performance.

The Ted Todd engineered collections, one by one

Ted Todd organises its engineered wood into eight collections, each with its own construction, formats, and design personality. The specs that matter most — board thickness, wear layer, ply construction — vary significantly between them, so understanding which collection is which is the single most useful piece of prep before you visit a showroom.

Classic Futures®

Spec: 20mm board, 6mm hardwood wear layer, 2-ply construction (hardwood top bonded directly to 100% birch plywood). FSC European oak, nature grade, micro-bevelled edges. 30-year warranty. Plank, wide plank, and herringbone formats. 2026 additions include Harlington, Appleby, and Chatsworth.

Classic Futures® is the collection Ted Todd leans on to tell its heritage story, and it’s the most direct comparison point to a traditional solid oak floor. The 2-ply build and 6mm wear layer mean it behaves structurally more like a thick board of solid oak than a laminated engineered floor. You can refinish it multiple times. It takes oil, hardwax, or lacquer finishes equally well. For buyers who want the stability of engineered construction but the long-term feel of a traditional oak floor, Classic Futures® is the range they end up on.

Residence®

Spec: Prime-grade European oak, bevel-free square-shoulder edges, Ted Todd’s proprietary Absolute Matt Lacquer® finish. Available as plank, narrow herringbone, and chevron — designed to be mixed across formats in the same room. 30-year warranty. 10-floor collection in a restrained, mineral-toned palette. Livingetc Style Award winner 2024.

Residence® is the collection Ted Todd built around the idea of a single seamless floor that doesn’t have to stop at the kitchen threshold. Bevel-free edges are the critical detail — most engineered wood has a small V-groove at the plank joint to mask minor subfloor movement, but Residence® omits the bevel for a flush, continuous plane. It’s more demanding on the subfloor and the installer, and it looks noticeably different from a standard bevelled plank. If you’ve seen a Ted Todd floor in a design magazine and couldn’t work out why it looked different, Residence® is almost certainly what you were looking at.

Project

Spec: 2-ply and 3-layer construction options. 3–4mm wear layer across most of the range, with a 20mm board / 6mm wear layer extra-wide plank option added recently. 17 tones, 45 laying patterns. Plank, wide, extra-wide, and narrow herringbone formats. 30-year warranty.

Project is the Ted Todd range built for residential-plus-commercial specification — mid-market within Ted Todd’s line-up but still premium in the wider engineered wood market. The addition of the 20/6 extra-wide plank option is significant; it gives Project buyers access to Classic Futures-level construction at what is usually a friendlier price point. Project is also where the brand’s “45 laying patterns” flexibility lives, which matters if you’re working across a large open plan with multiple zones.

Warehouse

Spec: 15mm or 20mm board with 4mm or 6mm wear layer. Hardened oil or hardened lacquer finish. FSC-certified nature-grade European oak. Plank (including extra-wide), chevron, and herringbone formats. UFH compatible. 30-year warranty. Eight designs including Furrow, Fleece, Sugar Cane, and Raw Cotton.

Warehouse is Ted Todd’s aged-character collection — the one where you actively see knots, sapwood, colour variation, and the undulating surface texture the brand calls “subtly brushed.” It’s deliberately rustic, and the construction specs cover both a mid-tier (15/4) and a premium-tier (20/6) option so you can buy into the aesthetic at two different price points. If the look of an old warehouse floor is what you’re after, this is the collection to walk on.

Create®

Spec: 15mm board / 3mm wear layer, 3-ply construction. Brushed surface texture. Four compatible formats — plank, herringbone, chevron, and square — designed to be mixed across a project. 32 floors in 10 compatible tones. PEFC oak. Rated for walls as well as floors. 30-year warranty.

Create® is a modular design-system approach to engineered wood: every format shares the same tones and surface treatments so you can specify, say, a chevron border around a herringbone centre without hunting for colour matches. The 15/3 construction is lighter than Classic Futures® or Warehouse’s premium tier, reflecting the collection’s role as a flexible design canvas rather than a straight heritage-oak floor.

Crafted Textures

Spec: 15mm or 20mm board with 4mm or 6mm wear layer, 2-ply construction. Plank and herringbone formats. Surface treatments include skip-sawn, shadow-sawn, and coastal-weathered. Five collections: Arundel, Coombe, Standen, Wiston, and Swinley. 30-year warranty.

Crafted Textures is where Ted Todd’s surface-treatment craftsmanship lives. The difference between a brushed oak board and a properly skip-sawn one is something you can only really assess by touch — the saw marks are a deliberate aesthetic, not a finishing flaw, and they change the way the floor catches light. Same thickness options as Warehouse, same 2-ply premium build at 20/6, different personality.

Specialist Woods

Spec: 15mm or 20mm, unfinished options, 2-ply construction. Species include Siberian Larch, Douglas Fir, American Black Walnut, Tajibo, Tropical Walnut, Morado, and Pippy Burr Oak. Wide and extra-wide plank plus narrow herringbone. FSC/PEFC where applicable. 30-year warranty.

Specialist Woods is the outlier in the Ted Todd line-up, and the one most buyers don’t know about until they ask. It’s where the brand offers engineered construction in species other than European oak — genuinely unusual woods that no mainstream brand stocks, for projects where the species itself is the design decision. If you’ve been told “you can’t have walnut in engineered form, only solid,” this is the collection that disproves it.

Unfinished Oaks

Spec: Engineered construction from 10mm through to 21mm, 2-ply, Nature and Prime grades. Plank, herringbone, Parquet de Versailles, geometric, and chevron formats. Designed to be site-finished.

Unfinished Oaks is for projects where the finish is decided on site — typically bespoke commercial work, restorations trying to match an existing floor, or residential projects where the designer wants absolute control over the final oil or lacquer. Note that Ted Todd’s solid-wood herringbone sits within this range too; our scope here is engineered only.

How to read Ted Todd against the wider market

The most useful way to think about Ted Todd is in terms of construction tiers.

Premium tier (20mm / 6mm, 2-ply): Classic Futures®, Warehouse (20/6 build), Project (20/6 option), Crafted Textures (20/6 build), Specialist Woods, Unfinished Oaks. This is the construction that makes Ted Todd genuinely different from most engineered wood on the market — a 6mm hardwood wear layer bonded directly to birch ply, rather than a 3mm or 4mm wear layer over a 3-layer sandwich. It refinishes more times. It sounds more like solid wood underfoot. It costs accordingly.

Standard premium tier (15mm / 4mm): Warehouse (15/4 build), Crafted Textures (15/4 build). Strong engineered construction, consistent with the mainstream premium market, but without the extra depth of the 20/6 builds.

Design-system tier (15mm / 3mm, 3-ply): Create®. Lighter construction, built around modular design flexibility rather than maximum refinishing life.

Residence® sits slightly outside this spec-tier framing because the hook is the bevel-free edge and the Absolute Matt Lacquer® finish, not the raw construction numbers.

Where Grosvenor Flooring’s own-brand engineered wood fits in

We design and source our own engineered wood range direct from European mills — the same mills that supply the branded market — which lets us put the same build quality on the floor at lower price points, because there is no brand premium built into the invoice. The GF Engineered Wood range covers plank, herringbone, and Versailles panel formats, and the collection is named after Cheshire and South Manchester villages because it was designed for our local market first.

GF Engineered Wood Planks

14mm / 3mm, 15mm / 4mm, and 20mm construction across 25 designs at £39.99–£69.99/m² including VAT. Wide-board European oak on multi-ply birch or pine cores, in brushed, oiled, lacquered, smoked, and white-washed finishes — covering the same format and finish territory as Ted Todd’s plank offer without the brand premium. Burland Oak sits at the top of the range. Browse the GF Engineered Wood Planks range.

GF Engineered Wood Herringbone

14mm / 3mm through to 20mm / 6mm construction across 29 designs at £39.99–£59.99/m² including VAT. Chelford, Bickerton, and Cuddington at 14/3; Frodsham at 15/4; Bulkeley, Bunbury, Broxton, and Westminster at 20mm with 5mm or 6mm wear layers; Tabley at the top of the range. That means our premium herringbone SKUs match the construction tier of the 20/6 Crafted Textures and Warehouse herringbone builds. Browse the GF Engineered Wood Herringbone range.

GF Engineered Wood Versailles

Versailles — large-format interlocking oak parquet panels — is where we sit alongside Ted Todd’s Unfinished Oaks Versailles offer, but prefinished and at a flat £79.99/m² including VAT. Six designs (Rookery, Peckforton, Utkinton, Dorfold, Oulton, Belgrave), underfloor-heating compatible to 27°C. Browse the GF Engineered Wood Versailles range.

See both on the floor — our Altrincham Smart Showroom

If you’re in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, or anywhere within reach of Altrincham, the most useful thing you can do before choosing a premium engineered wood is to walk on several at once. Our Altrincham Smart Showroom is unmanned and open 24/7 — a rare model that lets you drop in when it actually suits you rather than around trade hours. You can request a security code through our Smart Showroom access form.

The difference between a 15/4 board and a 20/6 board is something you feel underfoot long before you see it on a spec sheet, and the difference between a bevelled plank and a bevel-free plank is a thing you need to stand on to understand.

Our honest take on Ted Todd

Ted Todd is a genuinely premium brand making genuinely premium wood flooring. If you have the budget and you’ve fallen for a specific Residence® floor or Classic Futures® plank, buy it. The construction is sound, the design language is consistent, and the brand will still be honouring its 30-year warranty in thirty years’ time.

What we’d want you to know is that the underlying construction — 2-ply premium oak, 6mm wear layer — is not unique to Ted Todd. We build our top-tier GF herringbone at the same 20/6 spec and sell it for a lot less, because we’re selling you the floor, not the brand. For the buyer who cares about refinishing life, hardwood depth, and how the floor will feel in year twenty, that’s a choice worth making with all the facts.

For broader context on engineered wood as a category, our guide to the best engineered wood flooring in the UK covers the wider market, and our engineered wood flooring in Altrincham page has more on what’s physically in the Wood Room. For a direct comparison with our own-brand range, we’ve written one at Ted Todd vs GF Engineered Wood, and a broader alternatives piece at Looking for a Ted Todd Flooring Alternative.

Or skip straight to the range itself: GF Engineered Wood Flooring.