Are you sitting down ? - I have something to tell you...

Emp_Fab

LOL :-)

He'd better not think about pissing on it once it's down !

chillidoggy

"When all else fails, read the instructions."

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

It's such a shame that Emp never set up a camera prior to starting this monumental task. One that only starts recording when triggered by motion, obviously.

He did, hence the lack of more photo's.......

chillidoggy

Maybe he started to do the camera job with good intentions............

Emp_Fab

Well, that's the kitchen done, and thankfully we've been able to move all the crap back in there from its temporary home in the living room.  I've not done a bad job for a first attempt.  However, the 12mm gap I'm supposed to leave all the way around may be slightly more than that in places.  Like 20mm.

How the hell I'm going to cover that up I don't know.

chillidoggy

Thicker skirting. Simples!

FX_Munkee

You did remove the skirting first, didn't you?........

Emp_Fab

Hell no !  I wasn't going to give myself a bloody replastering and wall repainting job as well !  It's a rented house for one.  I was (am) going to cover the expansion gap with quadrant beading.  

FX_Munkee

Only yanking your chain.

I wasn't really expecting you to have done it properly.....

Emp_Fab

That's low.

frankus

not as low as your flooring - hows it going

btw the carpenters we've had in all used quarter beeding... on the one I did I removed the skirting board and put new skirting board in and frankly life's too short.

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

Thicker skirting. Simples!

They don't do skirting 12" thick

 

 

 

 

 

sorry Emp......

Emp_Fab

Thanks Frank.  :-)

chillidoggy

mike_l said:

chillidoggy said:

Thicker skirting. Simples!

They don't do skirting 12" thick

 

 

 

 

 

sorry Emp......

But that's probably only required at one end.

Emp_Fab

Now I appear to have a sinus infection caused by all the dust from cutting the laminate.  It feels like someone's punched me on the nose.  (

breakstuff

Best resting and not doing anything today.







Or for that matter, another couple of years.

Emp_Fab

I like that plan a lot. :-)

Sambostar

If it's mdf you shouldn't breathe it eh.  I would rip it out and start again.  I don't like that stuff, it makes noises when you tread on it and wears through with muddy boots quite quickly. 

Still making better progress than me decorating.  Think it's been two or more months now, the radiators are still disconnected and the boiler still switched off and the flat is only half done and still there is dust lying everywhere and I wake up and my lungs are aching.

Although I did a good job and it looks good, I kind of gave up and got a bit depressed about finishing it.  Well not depressed really, just completely too bone idle to finish it.  Still nothing like freezing cold showers every other morning to get me out of my depressive cycle.

Although I am determined to have it done by Christmas 2016.

Oh btw, don't worry too much about gaps at the edges, you can get some bevelled architrave to finish it against the skirting.  Oh see that has been suggested already.

I replaced the skirting boards, I hate that layered paint build up look.  I made them sadolin teak and wire wooled them and then waxed, they are micro metre perfect.  So for a good job, rip out the skirting, you'll be amazed how it sets off the room.

So when you do it again, rip out the skirting first.

Myranda

OMG! It's the end of days!!

chillidoggy

I laid laminate in my study. It was incorrectly machined, and some of the planks weren't flush. Ripped it up, took it back, got another lot, laid it, and the wife said she didn't like the colour. Ripped that up, took it back, bought a different colour and laid it. Fitted quadrant all round to cover the gap, wife hated it even more. Ripped it up, and got a bloke in to carpet it. Job done.