Hi,

I've just bought packs of laminate & accessories to do my living room.
I have several questions:

Scotia:
what is the best way to attach these to a painted skirting board?
Pins? Glue? If so, what type?
Will the scotia ever expand? If I cut it with a mitre to fit around
the room, will it ever expand and pop out?

End profile:
I'm going from laminate to carpet - both on concrete.
I'll have to cut the carpet and attach it to one of those bits of wood
with nails in it (gripper?).
Will this look messy if I cut the carpet with a stanley knife up to
the end profile? Are there any tricks to getting it to look right?
It's a standard cheap nylon (polyester?) carpet that was put into the
flat when they were built.

I bough Quick stepp 800.
I have a sofa in the room, that won't move out easily.
Is it ok to move it onto the 1/2 that's already layed, and finish the
laminate off? Or is that a bit dodgy?

Hi.
You can mitre the scotia easly and it will not give you any problems with expansion.
Where you come to the end of a run and you need to leave a tidy end the best bet is to cut a reverse mitre and return the scotia in to the wall, this is dead easy if you have a mitre saw and looks realy profesional.  You could attach the scotia with panel pins, but you would need to fill the pin heads with a matching filler. (It is always a good idea to get a tube of matching filler when fitting laminate flooring anyway) alternativley you could glue the scotia to the wall using something like Gripfill's new PU adhesive (You only need to use a tiny bit as it expands!!) I sugest securing it in place with masking tape until the glue is set.
It is important that te expansion gap is all around the floor including at places like door frames, where it is impossible to attach the scotia neatly to the architrave.  What you must do to get a profesional finish is to undercut the architrave (the decorative peice that gopes around the outside of te door frame) to do this place a peice of scrap laminate on the floorand use this as a guide for the height of the cut, If using a thick underlayent you should take account of this, most thin foams will be about the same thickness as the saw blade so you don't need to worry about it.

HTH

Ed

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