Soldato
Hi,
I'm stuck!
we have quite a large living room / dining room which I want to re-floor. I really want the dining part to laminate (7.5m2) and the rest of the room carpet (about 23m2) That's all well and good until I think of 'how' it will be done...
My main concern is the height difference. I'd be looking at 11mm underlay for the carpet with a medium pile twist - I estimate that to be about 20mm thick in total?
The laminate would be most likely 8mm kaindl laminate on a 3 or 5mm underlay which would total about 11/13mm thick. so there would be a stepdown to the hard floor which really I'd like to be level with the carpet; should I consider laying fibre-board, and then laminate underlay, and THEN the laminate to bring it closer to carpet height?
now where I'm really really stuck is the skirting.. The skirting I have is all home-made 120mm*18mm which has had the back all milled out to bury / hide about 10 cables around the room! (network, coax, speaker). I want the skirting to lay on top of the laminate (no beading trim please!!) but then I read everywhere that for carpet the skirting must be down to the sub-floor - which means If I maintain the skirting height that it has around the laminate, the carpeted area will have the skirting boards floating 13mm+ above the subfloor which it seems carpet fitters will twist at- after watching a few videos on how carpets are fitted I can see why too.
has anyone got any practical solutions to this problem? the only one I have really is to laminate the whole lot; it's a lot cheaper than a carpet/laminate combo and I can do the whole lot myself then! and there will be no skirting issues to overcome; however I'd really like two zones if it's possible.
the room is currently stripped back to the sub-floor which is concrete which has been painted gloss black; it has a slightly annoyingly uneven lip around the outer edge which will make taking the skirting down to the sub-floor hard anyway so there willl have to be a small gap.
(sorry for any typos; slightly dodgy keyboard here - PC isn't unpacked yet!)
tl;dr
-how bad is it for carpet fitters if there is a ~13mm gap between subfloor and skirting
-how best to manage a height difference between carpet and laminate in the same room
I'm stuck!
we have quite a large living room / dining room which I want to re-floor. I really want the dining part to laminate (7.5m2) and the rest of the room carpet (about 23m2) That's all well and good until I think of 'how' it will be done...
My main concern is the height difference. I'd be looking at 11mm underlay for the carpet with a medium pile twist - I estimate that to be about 20mm thick in total?
The laminate would be most likely 8mm kaindl laminate on a 3 or 5mm underlay which would total about 11/13mm thick. so there would be a stepdown to the hard floor which really I'd like to be level with the carpet; should I consider laying fibre-board, and then laminate underlay, and THEN the laminate to bring it closer to carpet height?
now where I'm really really stuck is the skirting.. The skirting I have is all home-made 120mm*18mm which has had the back all milled out to bury / hide about 10 cables around the room! (network, coax, speaker). I want the skirting to lay on top of the laminate (no beading trim please!!) but then I read everywhere that for carpet the skirting must be down to the sub-floor - which means If I maintain the skirting height that it has around the laminate, the carpeted area will have the skirting boards floating 13mm+ above the subfloor which it seems carpet fitters will twist at- after watching a few videos on how carpets are fitted I can see why too.
has anyone got any practical solutions to this problem? the only one I have really is to laminate the whole lot; it's a lot cheaper than a carpet/laminate combo and I can do the whole lot myself then! and there will be no skirting issues to overcome; however I'd really like two zones if it's possible.
the room is currently stripped back to the sub-floor which is concrete which has been painted gloss black; it has a slightly annoyingly uneven lip around the outer edge which will make taking the skirting down to the sub-floor hard anyway so there willl have to be a small gap.
(sorry for any typos; slightly dodgy keyboard here - PC isn't unpacked yet!)
tl;dr
-how bad is it for carpet fitters if there is a ~13mm gap between subfloor and skirting
-how best to manage a height difference between carpet and laminate in the same room