On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:47:30 +0000, Alan wrote:

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:29:30 +0000, Mary Fisher wrote:


"Tim S" wrote in message
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the pack says overlap by 30cm so hopefully thats easy enough.

My roll of foam didn't say so and I didn't. I would have thought that
the overlap would have caused some uneveness despite the fact its
compressible. However, the manufacturer said do it, so best to go with
the instructions in your case - might be a different foam to the one I
used...

I interpret that as overlapping the boards 30cm from the joins in the
underlay.

Mary

Yes, that makes more sense - the golden rule of laminate flooring: Never
ever line the joints up; horizontally, vertically or any other way ;-

Tim

Thanks for that, a couple of other things I have thought of....

1) There is a couple of uneven floorboards (remember this is only a small
bathroom so I have to negotiate around the pot!!) should I just plane them
till they're resonably level. Please don't say take them up and refit,
it's beyond me.....

Yep - plane them down a bit. You could use that green fibreboard underlay
for laminate as well as the foam. It will give it a bit more tolerence.

It doesn't have to be perfect, just near perfect. A few mm in the metre
lumpiness is OK, but 1cm isn't as I found with my not-very-flat chipboard
floor. I packed an area by the door that had suffered compaction out with
high density stationers card. I would have perhaps used latex levelling
gunk, but I found out after I laid the boards - bl**dy Ideal Homes cr*p
flats. Worked out fine in the end though.

3) How will I ever get the bath panel off should I need too when the floor
is going to be higher than the bottom of the panel?

Trim the panel?

Tim