How crucial is the 10mm expansion gap in laminate flooring?
"Man at B&Q" wrote in message
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On May 4, 12:43 pm, "Steven Campbell" spam@away wrote:
I understand the reasons for the expansion gap in a floating floor but is
10mm all round not a bit excessive? Can the floor really expand up to 20mm
in all directions?
Reason I'm asking, I'm in the process of laying a floor and have left the
10mm round the perimeter of the room (as I removed the skirting and can
easily hide the gap) but am now up against the breakfast bar and am not
too
keen on a big gap and don't want to put skirting round it.
Also due to bad planning I've been left with a small (20mm) L section of
laminate to fit which only leaves a few mm expansion. There is no way I
can
cut it smaller to leave the proper 10mm gap.
Cheers
Steven.
Is this the tile effect stuff? Hardly expands at all IME. I never
leave anything like 10mm. Real wood based stuff is probably different.
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Yeah just standard B&Q tile effect laminate.
Thanks.
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