Hi sjtaylor_199, ref above PIC, I'm doing the same upstairs next week
I am going to seperate each room with a FLOORMASTER (B&Q 8 quid) threshold strip. These strips can be used to meet laminate to laminate and laminate to Carpet. The advantage is that you will continue an expansion gap AROUND the room and equally important, will isolate a problem to each room and allow for future relaying
I also have the issue (marked out on pic) where I need to either 'butt' up to the door stay, or decide to 'cut-in'
The floor that you can see in the bathroom (engineered Real-Wood) was laid last week and I am using the SAME Laminate throughout the upstairs to include all bedrooms
As the skirting boards are OLD and I don’t want to remove, I am hiring a 'DOOR CUTTER' (a tool designed to cut doors without removing) from the local hire shop at £25/day to cut into the boards and the ‘door stays’ (ringed), this will eliminate the need for 'tacky' wood quadrants (simply cut and slide laminate into the cut groove)
The ‘door stays’ that you are referring to (ringed), I have yet to decide my course of action. If I 'butt' up to the ‘door stay’ with the laminate I would need to leave a 10 mm expansion gap, so how to fill/hide/cover ?
One guy down the local suggested ..
Cut into the 'door stay' with a horizontal line of very small drill holes and use a chisel and hammer to cut out and slide laminate into this
Another suggestion was to 'butt' up to the 'door stay' and fill with a special FLEXIBLE CO LOURED laminate wood filler (again sold in B&Q)
I would also be very interested in anyone’s opinion on these options
Ps, I’m sure there’s another term for ‘door stay’ but I think you know what I mean, ie the vertical DOOR FRAME
regards