Laminate

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Laying down some laminate soon in the hall, extended hall/breakfast room, living room and my office.

Office will be first as it's being decorated first and is square, so will be the easiest and best place to start.

I will be getting some 12mm half-decent (£25max per sq metre) stuff and re-doing the skirting, so i will go upto (leaving the expansion gap) the wall and putting skirting over the top.
I know roughly what i'm doing, apart from the subfloor/underlay. It's concrete and flat, but i have no idea what to put between it and the laminate. Any ideas?

Can you tell i'm decorating an entire house? I'm sorry for the threads. I should ask the Mods to merge all of my threads into a thread titled "Maison du Rossi~"

Actually, can a mod do that for me?
 
Awesome. I was just reading about that, looks good.
Question on the vapour tape, i have some Flashband will that do or do you suggest i get the vapour tape?
 
I appreciate the heads up, will avoid that potential issue then and go with that tradepriced link. Thanks!
 
Superficial said:
sorry to labour the point but this may be helpful in case anyone else is sold that bronze stuff.

Sonic Gold on the left in both images

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Notice that the Sonic Gold has next to no air pockets by comparison.

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Nice one! Very helpful :) thanks.

Also, another related question; Skirting.
I can either cut the bottom of the existing skirting and struggle sliding laminate under it under slightly (leaving expansion gap). Or i can remove the skirting at the risk of messing up the walls and fit new skirting.

I've never fit skirting before, but looks simple enough. I would prefer not to bash/screw into the boarding so that said, which 'No Nails' gunk should i go for?
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Cheers, the current skirting is nailed in, so hopefully i'll be fine with scoring the top where it meets the wall and jamming a pry bar down the back.

Just had a thought about the underlay. With carpet underlay, i've spray-glued it down on floorboards in the past. With laminate underlay on concrete, should i do the same or not use any adhesive?
 
Superficial said:
Don't go for no more nails imo - it is very strong and if you want to remove the skirting later it could be a pain.

I would use gripfill white (non solvent) in the yellow tube - it's not as strong as the standard green (and much easier to work with) and that is what you want. non solvent gripfill produces a good hold but the skirting can be removed with a short sharp whack with a tack hammer as the glue itself is very brittle. Skirting that is relatively warp-free will not pose much of a task for gripfill.
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There's such a thing as warp-free skirting? :p (the answer is yes, don't buy from b&q lol).

Cheers Superficial, i doubt i will want to remove it at any point, or so far in the future i wont care but just in case, i think i'll go for gripfill.
 
Right, found some stuff i like but is likely to be 8mm-10mm. The thicker the better most of the time, so how thin is too thin? I was originally aiming for 10mm-12mm
 
I've decided to go for engineered wood. More expensive but so much better looking and feeling and will last. Because i'm going for a dark wood it'd be the better option because if it got chipped then it would be very obvious with laminate without the ability to repair it really.
 
This stuff is in my office so it'll just be me shuffling around in my slippers :P so thats all good.

Ive been really put off by laminate now, it just looks and feels horrible and if dented or scratched it's almost ruined.

I don't mind the maintenance of engineered/real wood. It'll last, feel and look good.
 
This is my stuff that just got delivered, ordered from tradepriced as suggested.

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Going to finally fit this Sonic Gold today, any tips or instructions for this? Do i leave the foil up the wall slightly when laying?
 
I'm going to flipping lose it in a minute. Turns out the wall is wonky so i need to mark the contour of the wall on the boards and get a jigsaw with a downward cutting blade to cut it. I go on holiday on Saturday and really wanted to get this done before hand. Going to have to mark it up now and do it when i get back.

This room is my office and my £2000+ pc has just sat in the corner of the spare room, in a box for almost 2 months now. Waste of money.


GRRR RAGE!
 
Done the flooring at the weekend :) was easy once the first 3 rows were done. I love it, it's beautiful flooring.

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I got the skirting fixed on Sunday, just need to fill and touch-up :)
 
rhysduck said:
Looks lovely!

When you get to the walls does it just butt up against them?

Edit: what are you gonna to do around the edges? Skirting on top and then the small wood skirting stuff? (can't for the life of me remember what its called)
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Shaz]sigh[;25029585 said:
There are spacers if you look carefully.

I always think skirting looks best, despise scotia.
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As said, i've left 10-12mm expansion gap all the way around the room and radiator pipes.

The skirting sits over the gap and i've used "tidy pipes" (http://search.diy.com/search#w=tidypipe&asug=) for the radiator pipes.

The only problem i see now the skirting is on, how unlevel the floor is, creates a slight gap under the skirting in a couple of places. It looked pretty darn level before i started. It's only a mm or 2 though, still pretty darn sweet.
 
Don't really want to go laminate for the rest of downstairs after putting down this engineered wood, laminate just looks an feels rubbish in comparison.
Alas, cannot afford this stuff everywhere :(
 
Only 7mm? :/ i would've avoided tbh. 10mm-12mm at least from the research i did, to get something solid. Hope you get on ok with it in 5-10 years time.
 
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