Laminate Flooring Questions

[divuk83]

I'm thinking about getting some laminate flooring fitted in our hallway however as I have never done it before I'm worried I might knacker it up as although I gather it's easy to do the room is not going to make it easy!

The room is an L shaped hall way, with 6 door ways, connecting to a mix of carpets and lino's at different levels. Some of the door ways are at funny angles to the hall and all have annoying frames to get round, there is also a radiator to work round. There are no flat, clear walls to start on and the floor is floorboards so could also do with a bit of leveling out with a belt sander and a decent underlay before I start.

Is it going to be as much of an pain in the arse to do as I think it is? Has anyone got any tips or suggestions? I plan on using Scotia rather than taking the skirting boards up and I do have a Bosch Multi-Cutter which might make things a little easier round the door ways.

Dave

 

[divuk83]

A hallway is going to be one of the hardest rooms to do a proper job, scotia in a hallway will look horendus with all the door ways and junctions.

Think about an Amtico vinyl floor, only a few mm thick, no expansion so you can just run up to the skirting and easy to cut, range is excellent you wouldn't know it was vinyl unless you were told and as it's in a hallway who cares?

Cheers for that, I was planning to use the multi tool to cut under the doorframes meaning I only need to use the scotia on skirting and not the door frames. I still think it might look a bit crap and be a difficult job to do? Lino is not a bad idea, it need to cat resistant and easy to look after and the cat is in the process of killing our already knackered hall carpet!

Cheers

Dave