Laminate Flooring

IrishB.ie

Just looking for some opinions on the following.

The Boss wants laminate flooring upstairs, however she wants all 3 bedrooms and the landing done as one large single floor and not divided into 4 different areas. While I can see the aesthetic value in this, I'm just worried about issues later on (having to replace one or two boards etc).

Any recommendations for or against.
Thanks.

Carlow52

tell the boss that it is impractical to consider this idea from the perspective of expansion and movement, as well as neat fitting around door frames etc.

Are u taking off the skirting boards or will the boss do it:D

u can get nice timber T shaped saddles to cover joints under doors so they will not be seen when doors are closed

Buford T Justice

Two words - Yes Dear!

Life will be much easier then

Choclolate

I did it in my 3 bed semi - tough going - but not that difficult.

Pick the best room and make sure there are no really thin pieces at the edges and start there.

Also make sure that the boards you buy can be built or at least manipulated from either side as there will be times that you will be working out both ways from a central location.

Try a few in shop and make sure they click easy - but end result looks great.

DublinDilbert

I'd imagine the biggest problem will be the top step of the stairs and how you bring the laminate up to it.

paddy147

2 words for you.

More noise.


Done all as a 1 piece floor?

What about the various door saddle boards then??

paddy147

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Two words - Yes Dear!

Life will be much easier then

You could allways say..... "You,re not the boss,I am"...... and see what happens. lol.:pac:

Buford T Justice

paddy147 wrote: »

You could allways say..... "You,re not the boss,I am"...... and see what happens. lol.:pac:

Yeah, you try it first and let me know how it goes.

paddy147

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Yeah, you try it first and let me know how it goes.

I did,and it led to a "stand off"... lol.:pac:

alfa beta

make sure to use the accoustic underlay - it's dearer than the standard stuff but I used it under laminate flooring upstairs and the results in terms of noise seem pretty good.

(I also have insulation between floor and ceiling so this probably helps too.)

As for doing the whole floor in one piece - can see any prob with that - good quality laminate ain't going to expand or contract that much (certainly far far less than something like a solid wood option) and personally I hate the look of saddle boards and the like - so I'd go for it.

I definitely would check noise levels before doing the whole job though - maybe lay a couple of square metres and hop around on them with someone listening downstairs before doing the whole lot.

IrishB.ie

Thanks guys, couple of ideas alright.

Not too sure about your idea paddy

paddy147 wrote: »

You could allways say..... "You,re not the boss,I am"...... and see what happens. lol.:pac:

so I'll go with Fingers on that one

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Two words - Yes Dear!

Joey the lips

I would never do this. Its going to be a disaster. However if you "yes dear" at least you might get your way next time.

Look on the brightside. When the landing starting going up and down(this is where it happens because its the lightest section) your kids will have mini ramps for there cars.

ronaldo84

lay the rooms individualy and use saddle boards or T tresholds under doors. if u take it all in one go u will have trouble with expansion and it will b one hell of a job to get it all rite and if the house is out of square it will look ****e come the last line. there is a aluminium section that u could use at the top tread of the stairs the flooring fits into. remove all skirting and cut under doorframes and arcitrave make sure to leave 10mm gap minimum and never mind your boss
ps. also run the grain with towards the windows or the longest lenght of the room