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  • I think 3mm is considered the min to refinish.

    Rjflooring, broadleaf timber and sutton timber do nice flooring.

  • We went with this flooring from this firm for our kitchen and utility:
    https://www.luxuryflooringandfurnishings.co.uk/painswick-paradise-oak-80-x-300-x-10-3mm.html
    Happy with the results
    And have 3x boxes left if you want them!


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  • is that a kick stand heater ?

  • Do you mean on the left of picture? Think it's a chair leg
    my wife keeps changing things though...

  • meant this thing…


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  • Oh - no that's the freezer

  • Cheers all.

    @nankatsu let me check in with my OH and let you know. Did you diy? And what did you do on the skirting board on the wall?

  • Also as a general vague question, is there anything I should think about before we do it?

    Those, oh I wish someone had mentioned [x] before we did it sort of things.

    I wouldn't mind a cat cable running from one side into a cupboard in the adjoining room for eg. Which I guess it might be possible to chase when the old floor is up.

  • Anyone got any good design examples of Victorian houses in London that have a nicely finished completely modernised interior (I.e. no retained features)? We are looking at a place that has been modernised poorly internally and I want to get an idea of what it could be like if done well.

  • Didn’t know @amey was selling

  • I set them up, you knock ‘em down!

  • Sure.
    Our kitchen fitters did the floor - I didn’t have the time or the skill.
    There was a lot of cutting and trimming involved and he used a router table.
    He put a thin edging strip between skirting and floor.
    Can send pix if that helps

  • scotia beading?


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  • That looks nicer than ours!


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  • /giphy applause

  • This is how ours is done. Either the OG skirting was modified or they fitted new flat skirting and just glued / nailed on new beading. You have to be careful with short runs of it (around stairs and stuff) or when you inevitably bash it with the hoover or a boot it comes away.

  • That's what I had in my old place. It's easy to DIY and makes it all look nice and neat regardless of how cack handed the laying was. A cheap nail gun (about £30 or so) and a mitre block made it much easier. Doing the bay windows did involve some swearing.

  • Cheers all.

    It'll be the whole downstairs, so we were hoping to avoid scotia beading. It's a 1950s house so the OG skirting is short.

    We've left it a bit late as we were run down over Xmas, so now trying to decide before the sales end.

    We haven't committed to DIY vs a trade. OH is pushing DIY, but I'm nervous about the pattern design and floor levels. Although I think our current wood tiles are just on top of a concrete floor.

  • Is opening up structural walls and putting in RSJs something that'd fall under 'full plans' or 'building notice' (local authority page)?
    No change to the footprint of the building.

    edit: ignore me, council replied to email in 10 mins and stated building notice, which sounds good to me

  • Building Control. Subject to proposal Party Wall Award as well.

  • I fitted it to a 700sqft flat (half of a victorian house) and it wasn't that much of an effort. The previous owners had used some white plastic stuff that had gone yellow in various places.

  • Cheers.

    We're coming back round to just replacing like-for-(almost)-like and getting parquet(?) tile things. Our exact size no longer seems to exist, but there are ones close.

    I fucking hate trying to choose this sort of stuff. If we were in a period place or our old featureless flat it'd be so much easier. But here we're always struggling to find what works. Admittedly that might just be because we've done the easy and obvious stuff. Plus we're working with things we've got rather than ripping it up and starting again.

    I'm probably just grumpy because after using Forbo's online VR thing I've realised marmoleum won't work.

    Although a mate suggested tiles for the hall and kitchen... So that's another one to add to the list.


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  • You found engineered parquet tiles in this pattern? Got a link?

  • I'll check with my OH when they finish work.

    It was ages ago when were were trying to find a match for our sitting room and dining room to use in the hall and kitchen.

    Iirc they were exactly engineered like no|mal engineered ones are. They were more strips of wood joined with a backing - you know how mosaic tiles for bathrooms come?

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