I've just laid a new laminate floor in the bathroom and I was wondering what
is the best way to deal with gap between the floor and the tiled wall.
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board. But what to do in the bathroom. Can you get white mdf
moulding? And how would you fix it to the wall - silicon sealant perhaps? I
thought about just filling the gap with white silcone sealant but the gap is
pretty uneven.
Any suggests much appreciated.
Nodge

Nodge wrote:
I've just laid a new laminate floor in the bathroom and I was wondering what
is the best way to deal with gap between the floor and the tiled wall.
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board. But what to do in the bathroom. Can you get white mdf
moulding? And how would you fix it to the wall - silicon sealant perhaps? I
thought about just filling the gap with white silcone sealant but the gap is
pretty uneven.
Any suggests much appreciated.
Nodge

buy some laminate edging strip. £9.99 for a 2.4m length in B&Q



RT

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Nodge wrote:

I've just laid a new laminate floor in the bathroom and I was wondering what
is the best way to deal with gap between the floor and the tiled wall.
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board. But what to do in the bathroom. Can you get white mdf
moulding? And how would you fix it to the wall - silicon sealant perhaps? I
thought about just filling the gap with white silcone sealant but the gap is
pretty uneven.
Any suggests much appreciated.
Nodge


buy some laminate edging strip. £9.99 for a 2.4m length in B&Q

And gripfill to wall. Solvent-based is stronger but smelly & grey, brown
or pink and a bugger to clean up. 'Non-solvent' (i.e. water-based) is
white and can be wiped off more easily before it sets, so makes a nicer
finish where it squishes out.

Nodge wrote:
I've just laid a new laminate floor in the bathroom and I was
wondering what
is the best way to deal with gap between the floor and the tiled
wall.
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to
the
skirting board. But what to do in the bathroom. Can you get white mdf
moulding? And how would you fix it to the wall - silicon sealant
perhaps? I
thought about just filling the gap with white silcone sealant but the
gap is
pretty uneven.
Any suggests much appreciated.
Nodge

I had something similar alhough I still had a skirting (the shame I
hunted round at B&Q and could find short (2m?) lengths of white ones.
Being a cheapskate I thought these a bit pricy and went for a wander. I
got to the uPVC door/cladding section and found they had longer (3m?)
lengths of uPVC quarter round beading (for doors I presume) this was
cheaper at ~=A31.50 per length and I thought, "I'll never need to paint
it" - another added bonus. As I still had skirting I banged a few small
polytop nails in and bob's yer uncle. In your situation, white silicone
might to the job *and* fill the gaps in the grout lines where they meet
the beading. Failing that maybe "no more nails" or one of the better
ones referred to on this group whose names escape me.

HTH

Mark P

Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board.

Personally, I hate those mouldings. I put a bit of laminate in my last
house. However, I ensured that I removed skirtings before laying the floor
and installed new skirtings to cover the expansion gap. Exactly the same
method was used in the bathroom.

The bathroom was fully tiled, but it did look much better with proper
skirtings and covings. Having tiles meet the floor with no skirting looks
mean, IMHO.

Christian.

"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
et...
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board.

Personally, I hate those mouldings.

So do I - and they reduce the floor area by a surprisingamount.

I put a bit of laminate in my last
house. However, I ensured that I removed skirtings before laying the floor
and installed new skirtings to cover the expansion gap.

That's the ideal but I get the impression that the OP doesn't have skirting
in his bathroom.

Nor do we.

The bathroom was fully tiled, but it did look much better with proper
skirtings and covings. Having tiles meet the floor with no skirting looks
mean, IMHO.

Ours just looks original - which it is! It's neither a practical nor
aesthetic problem.

Do you have skirting in your awning ? ;-)

Mary

That's the ideal but I get the impression that the OP doesn't have
skirting
in his bathroom.

Nor did I until I put some in when doing the laminate.

Do you have skirting in your awning ? ;-)

No idea, I won't be picking it up from the caravan hire place until
August...

Christian.

"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
et...
That's the ideal but I get the impression that the OP doesn't have
skirting
in his bathroom.

Nor did I until I put some in when doing the laminate.

Do you have skirting in your awning ? ;-)

No idea, I won't be picking it up from the caravan hire place until
August...

I think that would be a style statement too far :-)

Mary

Christian.

Do you have skirting in your awning ? ;-)

No idea, I won't be picking it up from the caravan hire place until
August...

I think that would be a style statement too far :-)

I'll stop off at B&Q on the drive down. I'm sure the hire company will
appreciate the modification. I'm sure it could use some halogen
downlighters, too. LV types, of course. No need for transformers...

Christian.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:08:41 GMT, "Nodge" wrote:

I've just laid a new laminate floor in the bathroom and I was wondering what
is the best way to deal with gap between the floor and the tiled wall.
Normally you would just pin a length of wood coloured mdf moulding to the
skirting board. But what to do in the bathroom. Can you get white mdf
moulding? And how would you fix it to the wall - silicon sealant perhaps? I
thought about just filling the gap with white silcone sealant but the gap is
pretty uneven.

White MDF mouldings are available, I think Wickes do some.

Andrew

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