Hello people, I came across this forum whilst Googling some advice on flooring as the bloke who has laid my floor has caused me more problems than he should have! Long story short - I've had some engineered wood installed in a room. It seems to be installed fine but when he nailed in the beading, he cracked alot of the skirting and some of the paint attached (see pics).I have no idea how the hell he has managed to do it, but he's coming back on Friday to fix it. Could you kind people explain: How it happened, especially with the paint? I'm guessing it needs to be painted again? How to fix the skirting? Another thing is that there a separate smaller space in the room (for a wardrobe or something), it probably measures about 1m x 1m but he's laid the floor there with no gaps and really tight against the skirts. I'm thinking that needs to be redone as there will be problems if the wood moves, any advice on this? Cheers!
From the pic I can't see what size nails he's used to pin the beading, you didn't say what he used to fix them with hammer, tack hammer or Brad gun. It's probably the skirting has flex in the bottom so when he's nailing it could be bouncing, it's an easy fix, fill with caulk or filler and paint, it happens can't really blame the fitter if your skirting got flex it will pull the plaster or caulk away and split the paint, as for the 1m2 is it in the bottom of a wardrobe? Did you have enough beading for the job? is he a subbie working for a contractor who supplied materials? When I work for company's as a subbie most times they don't measure correct for beading and are short. I doubt you will get much movement from 1m2 of laminate in bottom of a wardrobe you don't have to worrie too much.
Show us more pics of the job, it's easy to blame fitters but if skirting isn't fixed solid accidents can happen, I've had it from tucking carpet down the gripper and its flexed skirting in new builds and its cracked, Skirting nowadays is only fixed by long brads fixed into plasterboard not exactly the strongest of fixes but it's very CHEAP.
Cheers for that, very helpful! Interesting about the new build and skirting, mine is a new build and I've had it for about 4 years now. I'm not sure how he fixed it but I'm assuming that he used a gun, I'll ask him on Friday. Yeah, there wasn't much beading left after the job so he might have run out it. If the small space isn't going to cause problems then I will leave it but I'll run through everything on Friday when he comes.
Most new houses nowadays are like that before you even move in.. As above caulk then touch up with paint
As with most new builds these days skirting fitted to a rubbish standard. When pinning the skirting shouldnt move. I wouldn't be blaming the fitter for that really, I'd be contacting the people who build the house. On tapatalk HD
Thanks for the responses all. I trust the fitter as he has done alot of good work for my friend and fair play to him he offered to come round and fix it.
Forgot to add that I don't blame him and I mentioned that these things happen. I was a bit miffed as to how it did but cheers all for clearing that up. We'll see how we get on Friday.
No support at bottom of skirting(plasterboard, baton missing behind), allowing skirting to pivot, hence chaulk, plaster cracking. Call bob the builder.
