Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: timber laminate "click" flooring 3Feb 17, 2009 11:19 am hi ed,
nice job on the floor. i'm interested in your data cabling. It the photos it looks like you have just placed them under the floorboards. Just wanted to know if you had any issues with doing that. I was thinking wireless but if i can get away with what you have done, then that may be an option. Cheers, kir Have a shiny new Heywood 28! - http://burtony.blogspot.com/ Re: timber laminate "click" flooring 5Feb 17, 2009 12:42 pm kpny hi ed, nice job on the floor. i'm interested in your data cabling. It the photos it looks like you have just placed them under the floorboards. Just wanted to know if you had any issues with doing that. I was thinking wireless but if i can get away with what you have done, then that may be an option. Cheers, kir Most flooring need 8-10mm expansion gap next to the walls. I just ran the cables down this gap. I cam quite close to the wall in the last photo but the cat5e is still there and gets covered by the skirting/scotia. Re: timber laminate "click" flooring 6Feb 19, 2009 7:10 am I laid my flooring at a townhouse a few years ago.
I had timber door frames so I used a 100mm grinder to cut a space to slide the floor under the frame. One thing to note before laying the floor boards. Check how level the slab is before you start!!!!! My floor was 20mm shallow in one section. Carpet hides the bad concrete slab but floors will float above and give the creaking when you stand on a hollow. I used a very runny slurry to level the floor. I did it in stages so it could dry quickly. As for the wet issue. I had a fish tank leak and a shower leak out on the floors. the water filled the underlay and spread quickly. We used towels and walked over the joins to compress the underlay to expel the water. It took days to get rid of it even with the heaters running flat out. There was no evidence at all. Licenced Sparky and Data Cabler If "The Data Guys" is too long to type, TDG will do. Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15886 Just about completed a renovation project and hit a small issue that we didn’t see We have laminate floors now where we had tiles before (turned out it was actually 2… 0 4919 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair At a bit of a loss on this one - we're thinking the original owners never removed the protective laminate covers from their kitchen cabinets after installation and in the… 0 6328 |