Or get 9mm MDF rips slightly smaller than skirting and paslode em on instead of quadrant. Once their painted they look like part of the skirting. Mitre the ends if thicker than architrave. Average citizen won’t even notice. Someone in the trade will be ripping the laminate up anyway. Easy for me to say as it’s all “off cuts“ from work anyway.
I've just had an absolutely bonkers quote from them. I'd rather use Frank's
Tbf they are the best I've seen at amtico/karndean, but by fuck you pay for it. They insist on self levelling the floor, won't let anyone else do it first, and charge silly money. Beware of vinyl flooring stuck down in bespoke patterns. Each little infill strip is cut to length on the job, there will be loads of small gaps at close inspection. They fill the gaps with wax.
We had Karndean in our last house. I loved it but it wasn't cheap iirc.
3mm ply over the floor boards and the lvt underlay - is that all I need to do to prep for this click stuff?
This was for carpet. Perhaps I'm out of touch but the quote completely blew me away. Will check with some others.Tbf they are the best I've seen at amtico/karndean, but by fuck you pay for it. They insist on self levelling the floor, won't let anyone else do it first, and charge silly money. Beware of vinyl flooring stuck down in bespoke patterns. Each little infill strip is cut to length on the job, there will be loads of small gaps at close inspection. They fill the gaps with wax.
I found them very reasonable compared to the likes of John Lewis, you get what you pay for in terms of quality. They actually down sold to us, asked what we used different rooms for and advised us to go for a cheaper carpet than the one we were looking at.
Well we got two quotes from them. Both carpets he said were roughly the same price. But one was going to have some edging put on the stair runner. That looks as though they are charging about £450 to put some edging on. I can't quite believe it. Perhaps I'm out of touch so I will have to shop around to find out. But I can't accept that quote without finding out. £2150 for a stair runner and a fairly small landing with a couple of steps up in to bathroom and bedroom.
Carpet wise it was about £4,000 for six large rooms, including fitting and underlay.
No mate, unless it's badly uneven. Some lvt click has underlay stuck on the back of the board. Livyn flooring by quickstep is the leader in lvt click, they do an upgraded version for badly uneven floors. Totally waterproof, I wouldn't thank you for the laminate.
If the floorboards are flat mate, which they should be, go straight over with the lvt click and decent underlay.if not, ply with 6mm, which is the thinnest I'd recommend.
This. We've had ours down 5 years now. Probably need a sand in a year or 2. I think we're meant to get 3 sands in its lifetime.
I would say the term should be more “moisture resistant” rather than waterproof iirc
Floorboards look OK except where they were butchered to retrofit a wet radiator central heating system. (house was originally electric ceiling heating!)
Now that doesn't seem too bad.
You tried Hylton Road Carpet Centre? Meant to be very reasonable.
