I recently laid a floating floor over an existing concrete floor - no problems there at all. The skirting boards had been removed, so I left the usual expansion gap all around the edges of the floor. Then new skirtings were stuck on with Gripfill, using temporary shims so the floor would be able to slide underneath if it needed to.
The problem is that the straight bottom edges of the skirting show where the new boarding has followed some very shallow waves in the original sub-floor. I very nearly got away without needing a scotia bead between the skirting and the floor... very nearly, but not quite.
This raises two questions:
- Where to buy small-section scotia beading in oak? The standard
Any suggestions, please?
(I should add that we're in a very rural area where there are no opportunities for casual browsing in the sheds and timber merchants. We can get to the big cities, of course, but we always need a specific target, and need to be sure that they'll have the stuff we want.)
- How to fix it?
Obviously the beading has to be fixed to the skirting board only, so the floor can still slide underneath. The best way I've been able to think of would be a combination of Gripfill and lost-head panel pins (probably pre-drilling the thin edge of the scotia to prevent splitting).