Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Floating floor advice? 2Oct 26, 2013 1:02 pm http://camdenbuild.blogspot.com.au/ by invite only please pm me Re: Floating floor advice? 3Oct 26, 2013 3:21 pm robbie55 There is a u shape (or should I say c shape) bracket that is used in these cases. It's about 15-20mm wide and normally has some small ridges across the surface. If no one at bunnings knows it just head over to a specialist flooring place, they'll have it. The first image on this web page has an example. http://www.premiumfloors.com.au/accessories/trims/ Ok thanks for that. It looks like what i need. Though wouldn't be hard to use spacers that came with the flooring? Can you get by without using them? Sorry It might be a dumb question I am pretty new to this stuff. Cheers Re: Floating floor advice? 4Oct 30, 2013 7:59 pm Once you get a few rows in the floor won't move around too much so the "spacer" thing is not as important as it used to be when floors were knocked together (most are drop locked now). Many installers just use a few off cuts of the floor they laying. Ironically Bunnings do sell the trims but you will find that Premium are good for the trims (as already mentioned) and also Companies like AFS, a division of QEP Australia. CALL 1300GOHARVEY www.harveynormanflooring.com.au Carpet, Rugs, Timber, Bamboo, Laminate, Vinyl & Vinyl Tiles TIMBERMAX Real Australian Hardwood Flooring IN STORES NOW Re: Floating floor advice? 5Oct 30, 2013 11:10 pm One would assume that you mean 'border'.... all the way around the edge of the room. The spelling "Boarder" threw me for a few seconds. Re: Floating floor advice? 6Oct 31, 2013 6:11 pm brick_paver One would assume that you mean 'border'.... all the way around the edge of the room. The spelling "Boarder" threw me for a few seconds. Thank you for that insightful post. It was very informative and completely resolved my situation. Re: Floating floor advice? 7Nov 10, 2013 9:55 am HN Flooring Team Once you get a few rows in the floor won't move around too much so the "spacer" thing is not as important as it used to be when floors were knocked together (most are drop locked now). Many installers just use a few off cuts of the floor they laying. Ironically Bunnings do sell the trims but you will find that Premium are good for the trims (as already mentioned) and also Companies like AFS, a division of QEP Australia. Um.. go with spacing. Some friends had their floor installed by 'professionals' who didn't leave spacing and have major warping issues. Re: Floating floor advice? 8Nov 10, 2013 8:39 pm ashilleong HN Flooring Team Once you get a few rows in the floor won't move around too much so the "spacer" thing is not as important as it used to be when floors were knocked together (most are drop locked now). Many installers just use a few off cuts of the floor they laying. Ironically Bunnings do sell the trims but you will find that Premium are good for the trims (as already mentioned) and also Companies like AFS, a division of QEP Australia. Um.. go with spacing. Some friends had their floor installed by 'professionals' who didn't leave spacing and have major warping issues. We are not suggesting no spacing. We are saying you can use off cuts of the floor you are laying to put against the wall to obtain your distance without the added expense of buying spacing wedges. 10mm is the standard gap required. To be clear - what we were saying is that in the old days when you knocked boards together the boards you laid moved around a fair bit, hence the use of spacing wedges to stop the movement and maintain the distance from the wall......now they are drop locked and so there is almost no lateral movement during laying - so they do not creep up against the wall like they once did - meaning you are less likely to lose your 10mm gap - even if you don't use spacers.... Hope that makes sense Re: Floating floor advice? 9Nov 11, 2013 8:45 am I get ya. We didn't use 'spacers' for ours, but we definately left space. I'm glad you clarified because, unfortunately, some floors are being laid without any allowance for movement, shrinkage or expansion with disasterous results. Today is under construction. Thank you for understanding. Re: Floating floor advice? 11Aug 28, 2014 8:06 pm I'm also here for getting some suggestion about the floor advice for my newly bought home. Actually Floor is ok but somewhere (as like corner) is damage and I am think to repair it my family insist me to Restore Floor with a new shining tiles which I have some pics. so please you people suggest me what I should do. to install new one or repair the same floor( old one also have nice color and design tiles). Thanks, that's the motivation I needed to give it a try sooner rather than one day! 4 3186 To put anything over slate you will need to put self level compound over the entire area as slate various in thickness and is very un even. To install most types of… 1 519 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 6295 |