Laminate Beading Question

Pine skirting is dirt cheap. No reason to get nasty laminate stuff. The dual facing stuff (bullnose one side, chamfered the other) is easily thick enough to hide the expansion gap and much wider than the criminally stingy 2cm high stuff you get in newbuilds. Paint it to match the room woodwork, or use varnish to match the floor.

Christian.

hows best to attach it to the wall ?? Screws/nails and plugs to hide them ??

Use screws. That way you can remove the skirting without damage, which is very useful if repairing or removing the laminate. Use plugs if you wish to have a concealed fixing, I didn't bother.

Christian.

If it's done neatly it doesn't look too bad. Depends on how neatly you do it!

Personally, I think removing the skirting would look better - however at the time I didn't feel capable.

If I did it again would I remove the skirting - Yes! Do I think the beading looks bad enough to make me want to remove the skirting now - Hell no!!!

Cheers,

Andy

When I did mine recently, I stuck it on with GripFill and it's fine. I cut and mitred it, and then painted it before sticking it on, in order to avoid any possibility of getting paint on the new floor.

Roger

Spent Saturday laying laminate in my mates flat. We used the beading and attached it using the £9.99 nail gun from Screwfix :) It worked a treat, just had to tap home the odd nail that didn't fire fully home with the gun.

The beading looks fine; when I did my own hallway I took the skirting off but to be honest I like both looks.

white-gloss

Yes, but that's going to be a nasty job removing it for redecoration!

MM

I won't remove it for re-decoration! Hopefully it won't need doing for a few years - by which time the "new" flooring won't be new any more - so I shalln't care so much.

Roger

Dumb question, but don't you damage the beadign when firing the nails through as it has a curved surface ?

Also, don't the pin heads look rather noticeable ?

Thanks

John

You'll have a massive clearing up job when it squeezes out. I'd stick to pva glue with the odd pin or masking tape to hold it in place. Horses for courses etc.

"stuart noble"

Not necessarily - it depends on how much you use. I used a thin zig-zag bead of GripFill and had no problems whatsoever.

Roger