Herringbone

Discussion in 'Vinyl / Impervious floor coverings' started by Finesse, Feb 27, 2020.

  1. Finesse

    Finesse New Member

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    Hey guys,

    Have a job coming up tomorrow fitting a herringbone pattern but customer isnt wanting to have skirtings removed or trimmed as it's a new build, nightmare. So wondering if anyones any tips for templating the tiles against the skirting without having to cut put hundreds of individual pieces of cedar paper.

    Any help is much appreciated, cheers.
     
  2. Paul webb

    Paul webb Well-Known Member

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    What kind of flooring?
     
  3. Spacey

    Spacey Super Moderator Staff Member

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    I'm on with 59 boxes of full plank herringbone LVT straight to the wall oh the joys
     
  4. Finesse

    Finesse New Member

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    Amtico special parquet
     
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    *spacia
     
  6. merit

    merit Well-Known Member

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    Just scribe it and paper template the tricky ones. It doesn’t take that long


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  7. Paul webb

    Paul webb Well-Known Member

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    You could do it the way some of my ex fitters do it, guess work and silicone or heat gun and hook blade, guess why they are ex fitters
     
  8. dazza

    dazza Well-Known Member

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    Back mark them. Make the scribes out of old tiles.
     
  9. chris1973

    chris1973 Member

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    Lots of patience and M2 price increases

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  10. Scf

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    Dont floorskills do a template for herringbone? Dont quote me on it. Im sure the other lads will tell you. Never used one but just a thought.
     
  11. Spacey

    Spacey Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Yes but it's for 3x9 inch parquet
    For 4 inch you you can make a jig your self
     
  12. Scf

    Scf Well-Known Member

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    Right o.k. How do you go about that?
     
  13. Spacey

    Spacey Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Like this
    The dimensions are easily worked out from the pic
    This scribes parallel (not diagonally like something similar looking :rolleyes:)
     

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  14. Daniel Carter

    Daniel Carter Member

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    Use paper. Fold some paper felt sevaral times. Then cut the tile over the folded paper.
     
  15. Jason Sheehan

    Jason Sheehan Well-Known Member

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    Try to get the customer to have a 2 tile border or 1.75 ish one, I think with a bordor Herringbone is faster to fit rather than direct fit to skirting but in such case just scribe each tile, takes time.

    I assume whole ground floor so ping a line from outside wall and carry throughout floor. Theres no quick way to it just right way first time :O)
     
  16. Spacey

    Spacey Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Wow :confused:
     

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