Hi all,
Apologies in advance for the long thread!
I have a couple of similar random threads here, but want to ask a quick couple of questions before I start the work.
Context:
I am about to lay laminate on a first floor flat. I have two rooms and a hallway. The hall way meets with a carpeted staircase. The hall also meets with (darker) wood effect tiles. All floors to be covered are levelish wooden floorboards (except in the living room where there is a slight bow due to the age of the property). The floorboards are in reasonable shape, but some need screwed down. All skirting have been removed already so should make things easier.
Underlay
What underlay should I look at? Are all underlays generally the same for this purpose? Or is it the thicker the better?
I seen this stuff - but it is only 5mm thick which seems thin? Ideally I would like to dampen any noise as much as possible for the neighbours below.
Board direction
The attached image shows the direction of the existing boards (red) and the direction of what I think would bee most visually appealing (green). It means a perpendicular join between the two rooms and the hall which seems fine. However it means running the laminate in the same direction as the floorboards in the hall. Am I asking for trouble by doing this? The new laminate is almost double the width of the existing floor boards.
Threshold bars etc
It seems I have three types of joins to make - laminate to laminate, laminate to tiled floor and laminate to carpeted staircase.
Are all threshold bars the same (other than style etc) for these three applications.
For the stairs I think I will carpet to the top of the last kickboard and have the laminate cover to the top of the step if this makes sense?
Thanks for any advice given!
Apologies in advance for the long thread!
I have a couple of similar random threads here, but want to ask a quick couple of questions before I start the work.
Context:
I am about to lay laminate on a first floor flat. I have two rooms and a hallway. The hall way meets with a carpeted staircase. The hall also meets with (darker) wood effect tiles. All floors to be covered are levelish wooden floorboards (except in the living room where there is a slight bow due to the age of the property). The floorboards are in reasonable shape, but some need screwed down. All skirting have been removed already so should make things easier.
Underlay
What underlay should I look at? Are all underlays generally the same for this purpose? Or is it the thicker the better?
I seen this stuff - but it is only 5mm thick which seems thin? Ideally I would like to dampen any noise as much as possible for the neighbours below.
Board direction
The attached image shows the direction of the existing boards (red) and the direction of what I think would bee most visually appealing (green). It means a perpendicular join between the two rooms and the hall which seems fine. However it means running the laminate in the same direction as the floorboards in the hall. Am I asking for trouble by doing this? The new laminate is almost double the width of the existing floor boards.
Threshold bars etc
It seems I have three types of joins to make - laminate to laminate, laminate to tiled floor and laminate to carpeted staircase.
Are all threshold bars the same (other than style etc) for these three applications.
For the stairs I think I will carpet to the top of the last kickboard and have the laminate cover to the top of the step if this makes sense?
Thanks for any advice given!