Fitting Lino/Vinyl Flooring

russell664 · 23 Jul 2018 at 13:24

Hi all,

Going to be fitting some new flooring to the bathroom - never fitted this type of flooring before so what tips would you give me to make this go along swimmingly?

I will be placing the flooring directly over floorboards.
When it comes to cutting should I use a plank of wood with a nail around 3" from the end to give the flooring a sharp groove udner the skirting board and then cut using a sharp stanley knife?

Also, when it comes to corners, do I leave a triangle cutout so the flooring fits snugly in the corners?

Any advice is welcomed!

Martynt74 · 23 Jul 2018 at 13:30

Why would you lay on floorboards? It'll be grim. You really need a flat surface. Do it properly and stick ply down.

russell664 · 23 Jul 2018 at 13:37

Problem is, there is no room to do that. Everything is too high, I would need to remove the door and raise all of the skirting boards.

There is already flooring down, and the boards are pretty flat. It needs replacing due to some work we had done when the toilet leaked badly. The exisiting stuff feels fine, as it is padded. When I say flat, you don't feel the gaps etc... like you would expect.

200sols · 23 Jul 2018 at 14:51

Do the job properly. Laying onto floorboards is a bodge.

Nikumba · 23 Jul 2018 at 15:59

When the bathroom floor was laid with lino he put down hardboard sheets first

Mahonyy · 24 Jul 2018 at 09:38

We just did our bathroom and we used 6mm hardiebacker cemment board and the vinyl planks with 1 mm underlay on top.
Do it properly, you really don't to rip up the floor in few years time.

darreny · 24 Jul 2018 at 10:58

You'll eventually see/feel all the gaps between the boards and any imperfections on the boards. Can you not just put bead around the bottom of the skirting and just take some off the bottom of the door

NVP · 25 Jul 2018 at 13:53

Put floor boards down, get a multi-tool to slice off the bottom of the skirting (and door) and slide the boards underneath