Wood floor gaps near skirting board - any solutions other than beading

[flipside101]

HI all,

I have wood flooring over wet UFH throughout the ground floor however it looks like in some places (particularly around the door jams) the fitters didn't pay as much care and attention to fit as they possibly should. This has resulted in gaps and to cover these over rather large beading has been glued in. This is now coming off (how we discovered the issue) and we are about to strip it all off so I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to fix the issue these days ?



All suggestions gratefully received

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• 18 Mar 2017

Badly filled gap

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• 18 Mar 2017

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• 18 Mar 2017

 

[vinn]

Why not post pics?

 

[flipside101]

I did , well I thought I added an album. Thats now fixed

 

[dazlight]

The gaps are for expansion.
He should of undercut the doorframes and slide the laminate under them. Looks a rough job from the pics.

 

[flipside101]

OK, so aside from plastering over the gaps with beading is there anything we can do ?

 

[dazlight]

Change some planks

 

[Doggit]

If you're redoing the laminate, and want to do a better job, then you need to take off the skirting boards, and refit them afterwards, but that'll still leave a few problem areas. You can use a multi tool to undercut the architrave by the door, but as the leading edge of the architrave isn't very thick, you need to take a bolster and hammer, and cut into the brickwork about 10mm to get the proper expansion gap. Obviously, in your first picture, there should have been skirting board on the small wall, and not just quadrant.

 

[flipside101]

Hi

OK so from what you're saying its a bigger job than I had hoped as for now the time and cash budget don't stretch to the replacement of parts of the floor. Looks like its back to the drawing board on the beading/edging front for now.

 

[Doggit]

Okay, so you're after a better repair for now. They should have used cabinet pins to fix the beading to the skirting boards, but if they'd glued it properly, then it should still be okay, so did they glue it to the floor instead. The floor can expand and contract, so it has to be able to slide under the beading, hence why it's fixed to the skirting board.

 

[foxhole]

You could edge with expansion cork , but would need all trimming to allow for it.

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