My husband and I will be having a house built by a project builder in the coming
months and we have decided not to have them do the flooring. The house will be
on a concrete slab and will have the standard 2400mm ceiling height. We were
considering using Floorboards (possibly Bamboo) for the higher traffic areas
(Entrance, hallways, kitchen/family area) and Carpet in the rest (obviously
excluding bathrooms etc.). There are a few concerns that we have and I wonder if
anyone here could answer a few questions;
1. How should we have flooring(s) laid? I have seen different methods about and
wonder which would be best for us.
2. What should we do about skirting boards? Presumably the two flooring types
would be differing in height, will this mean that we should ask the builder to
install the skirting boards at different heights? Will that look strange?
3. How should the transition between the two flooring types be made?
4. Is there anything else that we should take into consideration?
I apologise if any of these questions seem like silly ones, we are doing this
for the first time and are pretty much in the dark on this.
Thanks in advance...