Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Sep 10, 2015 5:02 pm We're on the verge of starting construction of our new house and i'm having a terrible time with the flooring company. We're having laminate floorboards throughout the ground floor and we want to avoid having scotia. Scotia around the walls can be painted the same colour as the skirting boards and not look too bad but scotia around kitchen cabinets and an island bench looks down right terrible. We've organised for the builder to tack on the skirting boards so the floor guys can take them off then lay the floor but they've told us there's no way we can avoid scotia around the kitchen cabinets and the island bench. This is frustrating because the display home our house is based off has no scotia in the kitchen, it has about a 6-8mm gap between the boards and the cabinets then some type of flexible filler in the gap. My question is, is the flooring company just being stubborn or are they correct and the people who laid the floor in the display home incompetent? Location: Harrington Grove - Laurina Release Builder: Ansa Homes - Georgia 38 Blog: http://thegrewbuild.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Scotia in Kitchen 2Sep 10, 2015 7:52 pm there may be some sort of compressible filler, but I wouldn't try it and I think your better off having the cabinetry cover panels and kicker panels modified to sit on top of the laminate.
So effectively, you would need to remove the kicker panels, and whatever is acting as a cover over the cabinetry, then floor up to as close as you can, then reinstall the kicker and covers. I have done this and it looks shmick. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Scotia in Kitchen 3Sep 10, 2015 7:55 pm We feel the same way, so the ss organised with the kitchen company to leave the kickboards off (which we were going to have to pay) and for the flooring people to do there thing but around the island bench they left a gap and just filled it in with silicone. It's not the best if you look up close but it's 100% better than Scotia Re: Scotia in Kitchen 4Sep 10, 2015 8:04 pm We found the same issue with our place and we have asked so many flooring places and the best solution seems to be using ends rather than scotia, as it lays almost flat with the floor, and the smaller independent flooring stores seem to have a lot more colours than the chains to match No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6632 2 4680 that will depend on the kitchen bench depth. you'll have to specify it so it allows for both the tap and the sink 1 7394 |