Flooring - Subfloor levelling and final finish

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Hyburnate said:
Where are you based? I forget.

But yeah laminate is fairly easy to lay if I'm honest!

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This is how I got on;

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Excuse the lack of plastering around the window, paper blinds, lack of skirting board and unfitted sockets :D
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Looks very much like my living room except I don’t have my floor laid yet, we will be putting herring bone laminate also so nice to see it looks good with the bay window

Is yours laid on floorboards? How level were they?

Mine are pretty flat except for the odd boards that have been replaced after the sparky and plumber wrecked them, they’re about 2 or 3 mm thinner than the original boards and I can’t get anything the same thickness unless I buy thicker and plane them down
 
mattyg said:
When we renovated our house... The first few rooms didn't get glued.... ALL the rest did.... After a while the non glued floors creek....Its a house built in 1898 so suppose it adds to the character
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I've only done my bathroom as the rest all have the original floorboards in, those were glued and screwed and no creeks.
JBuk said:
Looks very much like my living room except I don’t have my floor laid yet, we will be putting herring bone laminate also so nice to see it looks good with the bay window

Is yours laid on floorboards? How level were they?

Mine are pretty flat except for the odd boards that have been replaced after the sparky and plumber wrecked them, they’re about 2 or 3 mm thinner than the original boards and I can’t get anything the same thickness unless I buy thicker and plane them down
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They are and the answer is yes.

They're not the most level but with good underlay and ply theyre okay :)
 
dlockers said:
And is it like, pukka? Solid? I'm going to order a sample as it looks spot on.
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Not gonna lie that sounds like an early version of Jamie Oliver.

On topic we fitted Howdens Laminate which was supposed to be moisture resistant but we had endless problems. Rep came out and and gave us a refund. We fitted LVT after and its been great, very hard wearing and doesn't suffer any of the issues laminate might.

Edit:We did have some damp issues which have since been sorted.
 
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I think I may choose the exact stuff hyburnate linked above. Was that the vendor you used @Hyburnate ?

It's like 1200 quid for my entire downstairs. I'd banked on something closer to like 6k lol. At 1200 I think it's worth a punt!

My only concern is expansion under heavy stuff like my 80kg bookcase.
 
dlockers said:
I think I may choose the exact stuff hyburnate linked above. Was that the vendor you used @Hyburnate ?

It's like 1200 quid for my entire downstairs. I'd banked on something closer to like 6k lol. At 1200 I think it's worth a punt!

My only concern is expansion under heavy stuff like my 80kg bookcase.
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Yeah I used Floor Street. Yeah I had done similar and it came massively under budget and I've been happy, the only thing is they don't do any colour match beading for it, just one to bear in mind :)
 
Hyburnate said:
Yeah I used Floor Street. Yeah I had done similar and it came massively under budget and I've been happy, the only thing is they don't do any colour match beading for it, just one to bear in mind :)
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Brill thank you.

Did you have any concerns about really heavy furniture sitting on it?
 
dlockers said:
Brill thank you.

Did you have any concerns about really heavy furniture sitting on it?
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Not really, if I was going to be very honest, my bay window had a small deviation in it which with the huge column rad sat on it, over time has caused for it to drop a little... but you can't notice it until you look for it :)

FYI my column rad holds around 60L of water, so it is a BIG beast.
 
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