Soldato
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Also who fitted the flooring, doesn't look like much room has been given for any movement/expansion against the skirting...
I can't imagine the floor will expand vertically a noticable amount? I think the skirting has been installed after the flooring which is by far the best way of doing it. Hard to tell for definite on the photo though.
Unfortunately I can't think of a good way of hiding that cable without removing the skirting or it looking terrible.
Also who fitted the flooring, doesn't look like much room has been given for any movement/expansion against the skirting...
The answer there is is visible in his photo, I did our our ground floor in Parquet 30 years ago, right up to the skirting and it's not moved one iota, so in reality the expansion myth is to get you to spend more money and effort adding ugly beading all round the skirting
I think your mothers house was built on an undiscovered geological fault in the Earths crust so she had a lucky escapeTry telling that to my mother in law whos solid wood floor buckled up and had a huge ripple about 6 inch high in the middle of the room. Admittedly their house is by the coast so exposed to different conditions and it wasn't a laminate/engineered product.
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Expansion gaps are a back covering exercise for the floor makers.
Expansion gaps would be a floor not covering exercise!I thought it was a floor covering exercise![]()