petercharlesfagg wrote:
Friends, My wife wants me to fit the B&Q flooring panels in the
bathroom.

Is there a simple way of transferring the shape or contours of the
toilet pedestal to an uncut flooring panel so that I can then use a
jigsaw to remove the section to fit.

I take it that the toilet is in a corner.
Is so, get an A2 or A1 piece of card from the local arts and craft shop.
Depending on the gap between the wall and toilet. Lay it on a flat
surface that can take a few stanley knife cuts and imagine where you
think that the curve of the pan will lay.
Now you have done this, make several radial cuts from where you think
that the centre of the pan will be until you get beyond where the pan
edge will be. Leave several inches from the edge of the card, so that
the card can not flex. All cuts must end up at one point under the
expected pan base, so as to create an area that can be pulled up outside
the pan base In other words, you will end up with a piece of card with
several radial cuts from the pan centre towards the edges that end up as
points, but leave plenty of distance from the card edges to the cuts.
After doing this, divide the wider strips again, but don't go too far
out of the area of the pedestal. The idea is, is to end up with lots of
narrow strips, about 20 mm wide max, that can be cut to show the contour
of the bowl. The more radial cuts you make, the better the template will
be. I wish that I could have a picture of this, but if every cut ends up
as a point at the edge of the toilet, you could not make a better template

Now decide which wall the flooring has to match up to. Remember, no room
is square. Neither is a wall parallel to the door threshold. If in
doubt, use a piece of flooring to align the card edge. Then use anything
to anchor the card to the floor.

You should now be able to trim all the strips to the pan base, cutting
deeper any of the secondary cuts that do not go outside of the pan base.

Using the piece of flooring that you checked the wall and door with,
make up a section of floor that will be wide enough to span the toilet
bowl and transfer the outline to it, after leaving the template for at
least 24 hours. If you want a very tight fit (not a good idea) then mark
the floor very tight to the template.
I would go for about a 2 to 3 mm gap and fill with a suitable coloured
filler to allow for expansion.

Dave