I hope I can get some advice here... Our house is 20 years old and the ground floor has concrete floors. We currently have a laminate floor with quadrant edge laid as one continuous floor in hall, dining and family rooms. It's had its day and we want to replace the lot with an lvt. We've realised that once the laminate is taken up, there would be a gap of around 2cm, maybe a bit more under the doors, and doorframes and maybe more like a .5-1cm under skirtings. So my question is, how do we get the floor level raised so that the lvt can be fitted flush to the skirtings and so we don't have massive gaps under all the doors and frames. I'd also welcome your insight into which grade of Karndean or indeed which other make would be best to go for. I've done a rough calculation of costs based on my sister's recent quote and we have the budget for the most expensive Karndean tile, but don't necessarily want to spend it if we can get good quality for less! I have a fitter coming round next week, but I like to be prepared, so any help you guys can give would be appreciated.
Get a chippy in to fit you new skirts 'after' your new floor and if he's decent he can add a piece of timber to the bottom of your door, bit of filler, sand down and painted.
I don't think that's an option..we have 8 doors leading off the hall, and i don't want to lift skirting in two large rooms! Would be better off having a new laminate! I was hoping there might be a way of the leveller being thicker?
Which is why I said "extra prep costs vs new skirts etc. May aswell have a thicker laminate then! Its a question of how you going to raise the floor if you want to fill the gaps between the skirts. Could work out pricey considering it's a concrete floor and you'll probably be surprised how much it'll set you back to have the floor brought up to your doors/skirts. I've been on plenty of jobs where the customer has had ceramics taken out and lvt fitted by myself then a chippy comes in for a day or 2 (depending on size) on a day rate to fit new skirts and piece the doors. Like I say it depends on how much extra prep it requires with the labour costs added verses the cost of buying new skirts and paying a chippy to stick them on
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I would prefer to avoid messing up all my doors, doorframes and skirtings but didn't know that was an option so thanks for the info. What I'm trying to find out is exactly what those 'extra prep costs' might involve...what would the extra prep consist of? It's probably very obvious to you but not to me Eg would you ply the whole floor, do 2 or more layers of leveller or something else?
Yours is concrete so ply isn't so option. It would have to be built up with more screed. It can be done though but as an example a 40m2 area at a standard 3mm coat of screed is usually 8 bags, ill let you do the math ...then you'll have alot of labour with that per visit because to build it up I myself wouldn't be putting it down in one hit, I'd bulk it up, let it set and come back a day later or 2 and put a final layer on.
There’s no cheap way of doing it for lvt. You will just need 3 x more levelling compound. The labour won’t be much more but the materials will be. Or you just have laminate again Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
