Engineered wood up to natural stone-wall.

[mointainwalker]

Hello

Grateful for your opinions on my query.

My barn has natural stone walls and I was considering putting a skirting board on wall to hide necessary expansion gap - say 12- 15 mm each side for 6 m width.

Unfortunately a test-board ( see pics) shows this is not nearly as attractive as I had hoped because of the gaps caused by stone.

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• mointainwalker
• 27 Sep 2010
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I could leave out the skirting and undercut the wall with an angle-grinder to allow for expansion, however this would likely mean cutting the longitudinal tongue off the penultimate board so I could fit them together after sliding board under wall.

Since the board will be rather close to the wall ( joint at max 150 mm ) and will not get a lot of traffic, do you see this as a problem.

Boards will be glued with flexible adhesive.

Thanks

 

[geraldthehamster]

Hello

Grateful for your opinions on my query.

My barn has natural stone walls and I was considering putting a skirting board on wall to hide necessary expansion gap - say 12- 15 mm each side for 6 m width.

Unfortunately a test-board ( see pics) shows this is not nearly as attractive as I had hoped because of the gaps caused by stone.

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• mointainwalker
• 27 Sep 2010
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• mointainwalker
• 27 Sep 2010
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• mointainwalker
• 27 Sep 2010
• 2

I could leave out the skirting and undercut the wall with an angle-grinder to allow for expansion, however this would likely mean cutting the longitudinal tongue off the penultimate board so I could fit them together after sliding board under wall.

Since the board will be rather close to the wall ( joint at max 150 mm ) and will not get a lot of traffic, do you see this as a problem.

Boards will be glued with flexible adhesive.

Thanks

Haven't we discussed this already? Fill gap between skirting and wall with lime mortar to blend in with the wall is my current thinking on the matter.

Cheers
Richard