Making cardboard template for floor

[DiyNutJob]

Tape A4 sheets together. Add more as you need them.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

You just need the cardbosrd for corners, cut-outs, pipes, WC pedestals, etc. The rest you are better using straight rips of hardboard or thin MDF for - trying to tape multiple A4 sheets together is a recipe for failure. If you are slightly oversize on vinyl or carpet hooked flooring blades are handy to trim to size in situ and save a lot of work trying to cut dead to size, although templates will still ne necessafy for the niggly bits

 

[Old Salt]

Can't get the size of whole bathroom if thinner though

Sometimes you need to think outside the box

 

[Charlie George]

Sometimes you need to think outside the box

And then cut it up for a template

 

[opps]

Sorry, why not remove the pan and lay the flooring under it?

If you insist on cutting around it you will have a long cut at the back of the pan to the wall. That is silly.

Do you plan to remove the existing laminate flooring first?

I respect the fact that you go to the trouble of posting here first, kudos, but I don't think that you are always totally open about what you are doing. IMO laying a vinyl sheet over existing laminate flooring is a bad idea.

I get that you are trying to earn a living but do you really think it fair that some (but not all) of your customers are "experiments"? I do not doubt that as time passes, you will earn your spurs, but... seriously mate, do you want to be the guy that chuffed up a number of houses in the process ?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

IMO laying a vinyl sheet over existing laminate flooring is a bad idea.

No reason why not, if the laminate is sound, I did it in my kitchen.

 

[opps]

No reason why not, if the laminate is sound, I did it in my kitchen.

Fair enough. I guess it eliminates the need to lay ply over the existing floorboards.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Fair enough. I guess it eliminates the need to lay ply over the existing floorboards.

The kitchen floor is concrete and because a brick wall was taken out, it ended up with a hump a few feet in from the door. The laminate disguised the hump well, after a bit of attention from a grinder, but the hump would have shown through the vinyl, so I research the possibilities of leaving the laminate in place and adding the vinyl on top.What I read suggested it would be fine, so I went ahead with the vinyl and it had been fine.

The one problem I had, was the vinyl proved too easy to accidentality rip or tear, when first laid. It has certainly become tougher, as time as gone on.