Hi, I've laid Kardean a couple of times in small areas. Planning on doing a larger room. The skirtings are already fixed. Do i need to leave an expansion gap around the skirting, or butt it up as tight as possible? thanks
Fitted a 14m2 today with border, my knees are foooookin sore! Fitting karndean in a large area is daunting for a diy-er and you are fitting parquet with no border (im guessing?) good luck with the cuts lol I hate fitting the parquet without a border, cuts go on for ever spend the whole damn day on your knees
I don't get how a border makes any odds? Surely cutting to a border is the same as cutting to a skirt?
Rugmunching seems to say borders are less work - I'm missing something> as I think a border is slightly more cuts (of the border) and the borders probably scribed too? so surely more work than trimming to the skirts without a border?
It’s quicker fitting parquet with a border imo although I do know a quick way to fit straight to the walls doing several cuts at once rather than one at a time but that’s life long and complicated to explain
Cutting into a border is quicker for me than cutting herringbone to the skirting, every cut is on an angle where as into the border cuts I lay the tile over, mark & take out then cut or sometime just cut whilsts still in place. I rebevel in place 20 cuts to skirt vs 20 cuts to border....who wins?
....and when I say cut whilst still in place I meant score, take out, snap (if you wanna call it that) then back in - use diff methods depending what glue im using. The makeshift bevel tool ive made is a contender just need to get one made properly which my inlaw who works in sheet metel/cnc is going to help me out with in the new yr.
Makes sense now you've said you use border to cut to, I can see that just being away from wall would make it a bit quicker
