Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jun 20, 2010 5:51 pm Hi, Building a new home at the moment. We have a concrete slab and would like to go with timber flooring (Blackbutt T&G). The only thing is that we dont want to have the timber quad which goes around the skirting. Is there anyway this can be avoided? We are having carpet in the bedrooms. The only thing I can think of is that we put on the skirting after the flooring but this means that the bedroom skirting will be pretty high. I presume that the flooring will need an underlay aswell. Which would be say 12mm thick then 14-19mm for flooring givng around 30mm. What have other people dont in this situation? Also the kitched will go in before the floor so the back of teh island benchtop will need the quad I think. Floorplan http://picasaweb.google.com.au/James.Wither/Home#5463150794982198162 Cheers, Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 2Jun 20, 2010 6:16 pm We have concrete slab and solid timber floors with skirting and NO timber quad. IMO it looks ugly and its unnecessary. Ensure you have a good floor sander! The skirtings for the bedrooms were done before the carpet. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 3Jun 20, 2010 6:17 pm The floor should go in before the kitchen. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 4Jun 21, 2010 6:05 pm Yep flooring will have to go in before the skirting, that way the skirting covers the 10mm gap required around the perimeter of the boards. If you use a 10mm-13mm overlay flooring either direct-fixed to the concrete or laid over 12mm ply you woun't have the height difference with the carpet Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 5Jun 21, 2010 8:55 pm How they lay the slab will depend on the height difference between the carpet and timber. They need to ensure the timber is at the same level as what it would be when underlay and carpet gets laid. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 6Jun 21, 2010 9:14 pm Dukekamaya Yep flooring will have to go in before the skirting, that way the skirting covers the 10mm gap required around the perimeter of the boards. If you use a 10mm-13mm overlay flooring either direct-fixed to the concrete or laid over 12mm ply you woun't have the height difference with the carpet Or like us if your builder won't concede to not fixing the skirtings prior to handover nor remove them from the contract and won't allow you to have it laid prior either, we're paying the layer extra to remove the skirtings and refit them ,any they break will be at our cost but hey skirtings are cheap in comparison to putting up with quad. Unfortunately though we can't avoid it entirely as we don't feel like pulling out the whole kitchen, so unfortunately we will have to put up with some quad in the kitchen. But at least the majority of the house won't suffer from it. Our Build - Places Fairhaven 23+ - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28045 Our Landscaping - Belial's Backyard - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45375 Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 7Jun 21, 2010 9:16 pm If its a project home the skirtings will be worth about $1 per metre, just take them off. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 8Jun 21, 2010 10:32 pm I tried to find skirting cheaper than 3.30 per metre - doesn't exist (unless I guess it's bundled with a huge timber flooring order ) Anyway, can't avoid quads around kitchen "bottoms", but we're planning white, to match the skirting. I think it will look much less "quady". My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 9Jun 21, 2010 10:52 pm We will be using an aluminum angle to cover the expansion gap around the island bench and kitchen cupboards. Our skirtings will be installed after the timber floor is installed. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 10Jun 22, 2010 4:20 pm Provided the panels in the kitchen are not load bearing, and all the load of the cupboards are on the legs, undercutting the panels is possible so that there is no quad needed. Also the kick-board is removed and cut to fit after laying the floor. Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 11Jun 22, 2010 4:25 pm Lex I tried to find skirting cheaper than 3.30 per metre - doesn't exist (unless I guess it's bundled with a huge timber flooring order ) Anyway, can't avoid quads around kitchen "bottoms", but we're planning white, to match the skirting. I think it will look much less "quady". Nearly all project homes use 42x11 pencil round for architraves and 66x11 for skirtings in MDF. Anything else is an extra or upgrade. 42x11 in MDF works out at about 90cents per metre. Even going going to a 67x18mm in MDF is only around $2 per metre. T Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 12Jun 22, 2010 7:17 pm Cheapest pine I could find (67x18) was $3.30 / m ... although I possibly didn't look at all the best places, as someone like me would only know of Bunnings and similar well known places Maybe MDF is a few cents cheaper generally, however in one large warehouse it was actually a few cents more exy than pine !!! Where are the cheap places? My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 13Jun 22, 2010 8:19 pm Bunnings sell MDF arch/skirt dirt cheap. There are plenty of timber yards in Sydney - Canterbury Timber, Blacktown Timber etc Re: Timber Floor Options (do not want the quad) 15Jun 22, 2010 9:43 pm That price is about right for pine, MDF is much cheaper I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? Sounds like liquidity problems to me. Our builder did the same. Got hundreds of thousands of dollars of… 2 15409 Sounds like rubbish to me. Ask for the contamination report which I doubt they have. If it's part of a normal subdivision it would have had a contamination report done… 9 5656 Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15923 |