Laminate

Yaayuh! · 9 Sep 2013 at 10:42

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?

Nightglow · 9 Sep 2013 at 12:12

No, I never have, I just leave about 40-50mm up the wall, then lay the expansion spacers & boards, & when finish I just run around with a knife & trim off the excess underlay.

I've always tape the joins on the over lap with vapour tape.

Yaayuh! · 10 Sep 2013 at 19:28

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!

SB118 · 10 Sep 2013 at 23:58

Rossi~ said:
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!

Pfft, our place is ex-council, from what I can tell it predates the right angle!

Mark A · 11 Sep 2013 at 01:07

Rossi~ said:
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.

If you're confident with a jiggly saw you can hold the saw under the workpiece and follow the line. Downward cutting blades are useless in my experience.

I hope you post a pic once it's finished. Looks like a nice flooring from the stock picture.

Yaayuh! · 30 Sep 2013 at 12:00

Done the flooring at the weekend

was easy once the first 3 rows were done. I love it, it's beautiful flooring.

I got the skirting fixed on Sunday, just need to fill and touch-up

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2013 at 13:38

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)

Shaz]sigh[ · 30 Sep 2013 at 13:43

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)

There are spacers if you look carefully.

I always think skirting looks best, despise scotia.

Yaayuh! · 30 Sep 2013 at 14:40

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)

Shaz]sigh[;25029585 said:
There are spacers if you look carefully.

I always think skirting looks best, despise scotia.

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.

Nightglow · 30 Sep 2013 at 14:54

Going to lay laminate here, but one room I will need to use leveling compound first, as floor is out by about 6mm in one corner.

Yaayuh! · 30 Sep 2013 at 23:21

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

Shimmyhill · 1 Oct 2013 at 08:42

Rossi~ said:
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

We were the same, do it in stages - almost 2 years between our first and last lot of engineered wood but really pleased with it all

Still need to paint the skirting in hall and living room....

Yaayuh! · 1 Oct 2013 at 22:17

Skirting down, huzzah!

Just got to touch up the paint now.

spark6 · 22 May 2015 at 12:40

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

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

I know the thread is old but it just bought from floor online -UK as they were the only company selling 6mm underlay he says it's sonic gold but stamped as supreme gold in the gold part. I will check for air bubbles but it squashes quite flat.

R.O.S.S.I · 8 Jun 2015 at 23:05

might be being a bit dumb here but what is the best way to lay this stuff? I'm assuming it goes foil side down and then you overlap the overlapping pieces with the next piece and tape up?

Anyone have any pics/vids of the fitting of it?

Superficial · 8 Jun 2015 at 23:10

R.O.S.S.I said:
might be being a bit dumb here but what is the best way to lay this stuff? I'm assuming it goes foil side down and then you overlap the overlapping pieces with the next piece and tape up?

Anyone have any pics/vids of the fitting of it?

Apparently it doesn't matter but i did it this way:

and taped the overlap to the next piece.

darreny · 8 Jun 2015 at 23:24

I prefer to cut random lengths for the first board of each row so it looks a lot less uniform

R.O.S.S.I · 9 Jun 2015 at 08:12

Superficial said:
Apparently it doesn't matter but i did it this way:

and taped the overlap to the next piece.

So you laid yours with the foil side up? Just found this which is how i thought it should be laid....

covenantuk · 9 Jun 2015 at 09:50

Woah, that got me thinking. I'd have laid it foil up, but with no lining paper on the floor, maybe foil down is the way to go?

R.O.S.S.I · 9 Jun 2015 at 11:18

Looking at that I'm pretty sure it goes foil side down as its a vapour proof membrane. Then you just overlap it and tape down where they butt up next to each other.

Going to make a start on doing it this week hopefully.