Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Solid Timber Flooring / Floating Timber Floor Recommendation 11Mar 26, 2007 10:08 pm My experience of Carpet call's floating floor was that it got dented very easily just with fingernails!!. During my search for a better option (perhaps solid timber) I came accross bamboo flooring in home ideas centre which was much harder than any of the polished floorboards. apparently its also environmentally friendly (bamboo maturing within 5 yrs unlike the trees that need to be cut down for timber flooring) Also its more dimensionally stable.(lifting skirtings to avoid gaps forming may not be as bad, you'll notice polished floorboards always require quads adjacent to skirtings for this reason) I wonder if any of yous have gone through this option. I would like to know the opinions of others.
VP skirtings 12Mar 26, 2007 10:14 pm Emi Stupid question but what do you mean by 'please lift the skirtings up'? "Skirtings or base boards serve as a trim or finishing moulding where walls meet floors. Apart from adding a stylish visual look to your room, they protect walls from everyday wear and tear and scuffs." We have build the house and did the floor after house handover. I trusted that floor people know what they are doing. I had nice white skirtings as a finish to the bottom of the walls. Tradies cut the wooden floor with a gap around the white skirtings and sticked the small brown plastic skirtings on top of the white one.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Ok, I have noticed that a lot of people are doing it that way (I spotted that in home displays too) BUT... it would look much nicer and stylish if they would lift the white skirtings up, fit the floor and put them back. kate Re: Solid Timber Flooring / Floating Timber Floor Recommendation 13Mar 27, 2007 10:45 am G'day Kate ... we are installing our floorboards and carpet after we take possession of the house as well.
We asked the builder if they could leave the skirtings off for the flooring to go in but said they cannot hand over as it would be deemed an 'unfinished home' and the bank wouldn't make our final payment. Somebody suggested once before to remove the skirtings yourself and then put them back but after a few discussions with various builders and people that have had this done, our decision to keep going the way we were was based on $$$. To get the builder to put the same flooring in was going to cost around $5k more and for the sake of the 'beading' that goes around the edges, we were happy to live with it. I'm hoping that the excitement of being in a new house will outweigh this small glitch Amber http://www.ourdreamhouse.blogspot.com Re: Solid Timber Flooring / Floating Timber Floor Recommendation 14Mar 27, 2007 12:21 pm Amber G'day Kate ... we are installing our floorboards and carpet after we take possession of the house as well. We asked the builder if they could leave the skirtings off for the flooring to go in but said they cannot hand over as it would be deemed an 'unfinished home' and the bank wouldn't make our final payment. Somebody suggested once before to remove the skirtings yourself and then put them back but after a few discussions with various builders and people that have had this done, our decision to keep going the way we were was based on $$$. To get the builder to put the same flooring in was going to cost around $5k more and for the sake of the 'beading' that goes around the edges, we were happy to live with it. I'm hoping that the excitement of being in a new house will outweigh this small glitch Amber http://www.ourdreamhouse.blogspot.com Beading is nasty!!!! Just ask the builder to tack on the skirtingm which makes it easily removable. Some builders will do this...for a charge of course! skirtings 15Mar 27, 2007 1:44 pm Hello Amber,
Of course you can live with the double funky skirtings still being excited about new house I still am! I have spoken however to my frined trade and he said you can easily cut them with knife carefully before putting the floor. The floor people will then fix them as they always asking - do you have the skirtings or not? I believe that your builder will leave you a plenty of paint so you can just paint it over and you will be living happilly ever after hihihi I just can't look at them and regret I didn't know how they doing it. Anyway, now I am gonna to sand the small brown skirtings and paint them cream so they will stop catching my attention ) regards kate Re: Solid Timber Flooring / Floating Timber Floor Recommendation 16Mar 27, 2007 8:43 pm HI Amber,
The guy who gave us quotes for bamboo flooring has asked us to teel the builder to loosely place skirting with soft nail struts so these can be refinished when the flooring is done and also to place 16 mm gap betn the chipboard floor and plaster as expansion gap. perhaps this may help in your case too. cheers VP Re: Solid Timber Flooring / Floating Timber Floor Recommendation 17Apr 25, 2007 7:44 pm Sorry about this very late reply. I just returned form an overseas trip.
I am actually still in the quotation phase of things, and still waiting for the title release on my land. I hope to drop by National Tiles this weekend to obtain some quotes. Have you go ahead with your selection? If so, care to share your experience? audrey Bumping this Kevin. How did you go with your floorboard hunting. Which brand did you decide to go with? I am contemplating between installing solid timber floorboard and floating too. And it seem the price differences per sqm between floating and solid is around $30 per sqm Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 16715 Thanks, that's the motivation I needed to give it a try sooner rather than one day! 4 3343 To put anything over slate you will need to put self level compound over the entire area as slate various in thickness and is very un even. To install most types of… 1 1065 |