On Dec 19, 11:15 am, "Man at B&Q" wrote:
On Dec 19, 11:02 am, Stuart Noble
wrote:





The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Dave wrote:
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

I cannot believe that I am the only person to whom this is a perfectly
standard piece of marking out and cutting. God you make rods for your
backs.

Lay your board down, and use something to project outwards at a constant
fixed angle onto the board by a fixed distance. That is your cut line.
That is ALL THERE IS TO IT.

In theory. In practice you need to keep the "something" 100% square on
to the WC, which isn't always that easy.

You don't have to. You keep it square to the board your tracing the
outline onto. A combination square will do the job.

PS. The instructions for B&Q flooring show you how to do similar (or
used to) for scribing the last row of planks to fit against the wall
which may not be parallel. It's not a huge jump to see how it works
for irregular shapes.

MBQ