Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Dec 19, 2008 9:38 pm How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor on a concrete slab.
I am thinking of buying the panels and doing it myself. Looks like all I need is some waterproof plastic, underlay, glue and a saw to cut the panels around walls and kitchen. I have pulled the skirting off. So can it be that difficult ? Anyone had experience doing this? How do I do around the kitchen kicks? Do I silicone? Thanks Jesse I am renovating a 3 bed house. I have no trades experience but I am keen to learn how renovate. I really appreciate the advice people give me here because I dont have a car so it is hard to get around trades places to talk to people. Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 2Dec 19, 2008 10:34 pm Hopefully not too hard as my Husband is starting on ours tomorrow.
You tube has some great video's to watch on installation advice and tips. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ewf_RYw034 Good luck Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 3Dec 19, 2008 10:59 pm easy as mate. you'll be fine !
cut the doorjambs etc so the floor fits under. with kitchen kicks cut up to it leaving ur gap and staple/nail some scotia / quad around.. Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 4Dec 20, 2008 5:22 am How big a gap?
What is quad? Thanks I am renovating a 3 bed house. I have no trades experience but I am keen to learn how renovate. I really appreciate the advice people give me here because I dont have a car so it is hard to get around trades places to talk to people. Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 5Dec 22, 2008 7:34 am the gap will be specified in the instructions or on the packaging somewhere.. 10mm ish generally.
quad is a quarter round wood trim. like a skirting type thing, google and ye shall find ! Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 6Dec 22, 2008 8:30 am It,s pretty easy to do.....we did our whole house in a couple of days.
We didn,t need to glue ours at all though....the panels just locked into one another. We just used the quarter round to finish it off ,we considered taking all of the skirtings off,but being a solid brick house it was quite difficult,so we decided the quarter round was a much better option Good luck with it Cheers Mel Building on 9 acres Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 7Dec 22, 2008 9:05 am We are onto our 3rd day today and nearly done. DH and BIL have found it both easy and hard at the same time. Easy to line up and click into place but more time spent cutting around kitchen etc. It looks fantastic though and I'm really pleased with their work, it's nice and straight
We had some parts of the slab which was uneven in the kitchen so they just packed those areas with extra underlay. No glue needed for the product we used. They used a dropsaw and also a circular saw for the cutting. They ended up using a handsaw to cut under the doorjambs. We'll be painting our quad the skirting colour so it looks more like an extension of the skirting rather than trying to match floor colour. I think it looks much neater painted. You'll be right, good luck Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 8Dec 22, 2008 9:07 am I did the laminate flooring in my place. About 33msq in about 1.5 days including the scotia.
The drop saw made the scotia joins and corners a lot easier. EDIT: use some self leveling concrete if your floor is not level. Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 9Jan 07, 2009 8:39 pm laying the boards is pretty easy, takes a bit of time setting out colours/ grains more than anything. also its easier to glue down your c channel for the end piece when your actually glueing the last one in place for along a door way which runs parallel to the board. Just installed 40sqm of spotted gum from harvey norman looks awsome. Just a note on that product, every board has a join in it....... Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 10Jan 07, 2009 9:06 pm We did our floors in our unit and the floors themselves are dead easy but two years later we are finally getting around to finishing the quad and this bit is very difficult. Husband is the labour but I need to be the brains otherwise he measures by sight! It's really hard around architraves and doors etc, one to get the angles to meet properly, you have to measure exact, but lots of our architraves are kind of shaped and there's no way that I can work out to kind of fill in the gaps that the right angle meeting will make, so we're going to just fill it with some kind of filler and paint over it - not ideal for a new home. Anyone laid floating timber or laminate in a kitchen?? 11Jan 07, 2009 11:00 pm A few people have said dont put floating timber or laminate floors in the kitchen or it gets water stains.
I see bunnings sell a sealer to use between the panels/strips that would go in the kitchen. The reason that I ask is that my kitchen runs into my dining which runs into my lounge. I am not sure how to draw a line from the kitchen and the dining to just put tiles in the kitchen. I.e. how to divide the two (aluminium strip??) I am renovating a 3 bed house. I have no trades experience but I am keen to learn how renovate. I really appreciate the advice people give me here because I dont have a car so it is hard to get around trades places to talk to people. Re: How difficult can it be to put down a floating timber floor? 13Jan 08, 2009 3:38 pm We had floating floors in our kitchen and we never had any problem,but any spillages were always cleaned up asap
The same goes for mopping the floor....some people will tell you that you shouldn,t do it ,but I always did,but was very careful to only have the mop damp. Good luck with your renovations Cheers Mel Building on 9 acres Thanks Simon, I guess I'm no concerned with the volume of the noise rather that dead and hollow sound and feel that is associated with floating floors. But I'm not sure… 3 6110 Thanks, that's the motivation I needed to give it a try sooner rather than one day! 4 2983 0 9796 |