I pulled the carpet up in our London home only to make a £25,000 find underneath

A couple were stunned when they pulled up the carpet in their London house to find a floorboard worth £25,000.

Josh and Emily Brooks were renovating their home in Walthamstow, east London when the discovered diamond parquet wooden flooring, which was popular in the 17th Century.

When Louis XIV, the King of France, installed parquet designs at Versailles Palace the prestigious floor type fashionably became a universal trend in Europe from the 1680’s.

Josh, 37, and wife Emily, 38, called a flooring specialist out, who valued it’s worth at between £20,000 to £25,000 – with the floor stretching through the hallway and into the lounge.

Josh and Emily Brooks were renovating their Walthamstow, London pad when they made the shocking £25,000 discovery

The duo shared the incredible find on TikTok, and the clip has gone viral with 2.6 million views.

Josh, a camera operator, said: ‘We’d seen a tiny corner when we visited the house but when we found out it was diamond parquet in perfect condition we were blown away.’

‘We had a flooring specialist come round to have a look and told us it’s some of the best type of oak he’s seen and in excellent condition.

‘Given the floor space it covers we are looking at [a worth of] maybe £20,000-25,000.

‘We are going to keep it and do a fine sand throughout then finish with either a varnish or stain.’

The TikTok garnered over 225,000 likes with many flocking to the comments to compliment their find. 

One person commented: ‘You hit the floor lottery!’ ‘Ooooo it’s a diamond parquet,’ said another viewer.

Tucked under old carpet was diamond parquet wooden flooring, which was popular in the 17th Century, in ‘perfect condition’

Josh, 37, and wife Emily, 38, called a flooring specialist out, who valued it’s worth at between £20,000 to £25,000 – with the floor stretching through the hallway and into the lounge

The hidden flooring now compliments their home perfectly and they plan to sand it and revarnish 

Before the pair ripped up the carpet the sitting room was dated with a pale pink floral carpet 

The duo shared the incredible find on TikTok , and the clip has gone viral with 2.6 million views

The TikTok garnered over 225,000 likes with many flocking to the comments to compliment their find

Someone else wrote: ‘At this point we’re going to start thanking previous generations for preserving such lovely hardwood floors under carpet like that.’

‘That is exquisitely phenomenal!!!’ another fan commented.

Someone else added: ‘You didn’t just struck gold. That’s finding diamond. It’s beautiful.’

‘I would never stop crying. They’re so beautiful,’ agreed another user. Another person commented: ‘My heart would stop.’