Options for no skirting/baseboard?

[justanotherguy]

Hi there

I'll be having an outside wall replastered, and will be laying a new wooden floor on top of the old one.

Just wondering what the options are for having no skirting? Is it possible to get a tidy edge between plaster and new floorboard?

 

[big-all]

you will need somthing to protect the wall from the hoover/shoes/general bumping
you also need to cover the expansion gap off the flooring off around 12mm

tiles would possibly look odd as a single line

 

[trowelmonkey1]

completely left of field idea but...if the bottom course of brickwork is nice enough, you could re-point it to tidy it up and have the plasterer fit a render stop bead so that the plaster stops on top of the bottom brick, kinda the same as is done for external rendering, depends on if the wall is going back to brick of course and if you live in a studio/warehouse where this would suit.

otherwise i think you're stuck with old fashioned skirting.

 

[justanotherguy]

Hmm, interesting.

I should add the the whole 11 metres of the internal party wall will be exposed brick. It's the end walls, and outside walls I was wondering about.

I was worried it would just look odd having skirting on the rendered walls, and suddenly nothing on the exposed wall.

I've since read about 'floating corners', which is a bit like you say, but only a centimetre of so, rather than a full brick length.

 

[trowelmonkey1]

may work for you then, you can fit the stop bead as high or low as you like.

you'll have to post some pics once you're done, sounds nice

 

[Alastairreid]

how would you finish the edge of the flooring doing it this way? unless of course its a carpet and would you not be left with a space between the finished floor and wall which would be difficult to clean.

does sound nice though

 

[big-all]

dont expect the wall to look anything like the outside wall
the workmanship and finnish quality colour could be completly different like odd bits off brick broken bricks uneven courses sloping courses ect

try a sample area first

and dont forget your cables and pipes may be sunk into the walls