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Carpentry & Joinery

Laminate Flooring with no skirting or beading?

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.19 PM

We are looking for laminated flooring to be installed and have no skirting or beading around full perimeter. what I was thinking was cutting the plasterboard about 6" above all around, lay the flooring underneath plasterboard with obviously clearance to move side to side then get a plasterer to plaster down on top of the laminate with about 2MM clearance is this recommended or will I have problems with expansion? Cheers Craig

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2 Answers

HandyONeill

Rating: 5 out of 5
St Albans
Think it will work. Be careful with plaster onto laminate. Maybe do a test. We had oak flooring prefinished installed. Guy plastered ceiling some of the plaster went on the floor. Bubbled all the finish. A resand and refinish did not fix it. Also why finish 6 inches up. Only need 22 mm max for floor. Test your laminate by putting some plaster on it. See if it does any harm. Brian
Answered15 October 2018
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APG Plumbing & Heating

Rating: 5 out of 5
Scunthorpe
Don't do it into plaster board and not at 60mm as thats to high. The movement of the floor when it contracts and expands with humidity will corse problems. Best way is to remove skirting then lay floor with a 10mm gap from the wall. Then put the skirting back, leaving a clean wall to floor look.
Answered16 October 2018
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