On 24 Sep, 14:55, Ben Micklem wrote:
in article om, CJC at
wrote on 24/9/07 14:12:

If someone could provide some insight into this it would be greatly
appreciated. Also not sure if I heard the guy properly but I think he
said they do it like this because of expansion gap, therefore am I
then actually suppose to fits the skirting a little higher than the
new floor boards?

If they are talking about expansion gaps, I am assuming that they are not
nailing the floor to anything underneath- just nailing the boards to each
other to form a floating floor. This suggests that the existing floorboards
will be left- were you expecting this, or were you expecting the floor to be
at the same level? The expansion gap is a horizontal gap, not vertical, so
the skirting would still straight on top.

If it is nailed to the joists, without the existing boards, there is not
much point in having an expansion gap. However, they will still like to
install the floor without having to cut each board precisely to fit inside
the skirting- which would almost certainly leave more nasty gaps that any
gaps you mentioned through things not being square.

Ben

Hi sorry didn't event think that the boards may replace what's
currently there, no they are being nailed straight on top or original
boards. just I know my skirting usually has to be risen a mm or two
here and there to make it square which would then leave gaps between
floor boards and skirting which obviously I wouldn't want, so how am I
suppose to get around that, as when I have seen floor boards in other
houses the skirting is always flush but don't see how I would be able
to do that in my house?