Joe T wrote:
Mike Dodd wrote:

My approach (which I'm sure will be rejected here later) would be...

Another sheet of laminate, the length of the door.
Profile gauge - to transfer the profile of the architrave onto laminate.
Remove existing wooden floor-plate / interface / whatever - the
mahogany stained item.
Using router, or similar, remove a lip from the edge that is exposed
to new laminate - to allow laminate to slid UNDER.
A prayer - to assist the replacement of floor-plate and last laminate
piece "simultaneously" - or a 2lb lump hammer (hey, they always find a
use)

Just to annoy you, it'd probably have been easier in the long run to
remove the skirting board and cut a 10mm slot in the bottom of the
architrave to allow the laminate to butt-up to the entrance to the
room behind, in hind-sight.

Mike


Thanks Mike, I haven't actually started laying the floor yet - I was just
thinking ahead to any possible problems, in case I decide to abandon the
project and go for carpet instead!

I'm being a bit of a wimp and looking for the easiest way to do the job!
I would imagine that removing the skirting board would be a fairly major
job and result in damage, requiring replacement.

The wooden floorplate has four wooden plugs, which if drilled out, I
assume will reveal screws. I would guess that it will then easily slide
out. Then to re-fit I would have to find replacement wooden plugs. I don't
know if these come in standard sizes and are easy find replacements for.

In the end, I'll still have the contoured door frame, which won't allow
part of the expansion area to be covered up.

In my quest to find the easiest route, I had thought of getting some
cork tiles and cutting these to shape to fit the gap. But I don't know
how this would look when finished.


The contoured door frame is precisely why I suggest removing 10mm from
the bottom - to allow a more "triangular" cut to be made in the laminate
that slides under the edge, leaving the expansion gap / differences in
contour hidden underneath the door frame.

Re. the wooden plugs - if you can't find the same size, drill an
over-sized hole to the diameter of a plug that you can find. Or wood
filler (bah)

Skirting board?, depends if you can find a matching replacement, in
which case removal is probably a lot easier that you might think. A lot
would depend on the condition of the wall, however (e.g. plasterwork)
and whether the skirting had been nailed, or no-more-nailed to the wall
in the first place. Personally, next time I laminate the whole skirting
is coming off and being replaced with new.