Laminate Floor Fitter

Lonewolf · 25 Sep 2013 at 19:13

Anyone have any experience of having a laminate floor fitted in the Manchester area, or recommend a decent retailer for laminate flooring?

Cosmic182 · 25 Sep 2013 at 19:15

Don't you know any joiners at all? If not just search for a recommended chippy. It really is so simple if it's done right.

Lonewolf · 25 Sep 2013 at 22:16

Can't say I do. Care to enlighten me?

Merlin5 · 25 Sep 2013 at 23:05

My brother had his laminate flooring bought from and fitted by Carpetright. They did a good job. I popped into Carpetright, couldn't find laminate I like, but the salesman happily gave me the phone numbers of the guys who fit their flooring. You could try that.

Russinating · 26 Sep 2013 at 15:04

We fitted ours ourselves and there's a little thread on here with a few other chaps that did too. It's really not that difficult at all.

kidloco · 26 Sep 2013 at 16:04

Having mine done as I type this. Its not laminate but engineered wood that needs glueing. They fit it all though. Have to say they are doing a fantastic job. Im a extremely fussy swine and every detail of the job looks spot on. Can send you the guys number if you want

Lonewolf · 26 Sep 2013 at 18:20

Thanks all. I have a couple of potential leads through work.

mjd · 26 Sep 2013 at 21:31

I did our four bedrooms last year. I invested in an exakt saw to do the job and together with a drill and a set of chisels, laying the flooring was a doddle. You do need to take your time around fiddly bits (pipes, door jams etc..) and check and recheck measurements, but that is the most difficult bit of actually laying the floor. The time consuming bit for me was fitting the scotias. It took me one or two attempts before I worked our how to create seamless returns, and every corner being out of square meant painstakingly filing small sections off the scotia so that the mitred joints were clean. The only thing I would do differently next time is to invest in knee pads