dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Living room is 16m2, high traffic area (only exit in the house to the garden) and we have a dog, it currently has a cream carpet from when we moved in 
I've always liked laminate/wood flooring in downstairs rooms, will be getting the kitchen floor tiled as it is vinyl at the moment and is dog shit.
Anyone used / laid this Quick Step stuff (how does it finish, is it high maintenance etc?), its the laminate that clicks together, so I think, even with my limited DIY skills, I should be able to lay it fine. How do you get it round awkward bits? There would be 4 door frames and a corner box to go round, no radiator pipes or anything, do I just take a jigsaw to it or would that ruin the board?
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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If it sees a lot of foot traffic its just going to wear a bit quicker but you will find you get what you pay for.
Mine had seen a lot of abuse. All types of fluids from parties etc and all types of footwear but other than a mop and hoover, it hasn't required any maintenance nor chipped or been damaged
It is generally easy to install and if you take the time to plan it out you can do it with minimal wastage. My main advice would be to make sure you leave a 5mm gap around the room from the edge to allow for expansion of the boards when warm otherwise it could buckle up in the middle. For this you can buy spacers designed to help fit it. It may also be worth getting some of the edging they do to hid the gap if you cant feed it under skirting boards etc.
To do difficult edges it was a case of marking it with a pencil and taking a fine wood blade on a jigsaw and cutting it. Use a bit of masking tape to stop it splintering.
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IvIarkgraham
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my living room stuff was pretty cheap, had it laid by a pro and its been perfect! hardly any wear
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dannymccann
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Cheers, just got to figure out what to do for the door threshold as the living room has double width french doors with a white PVC sill...havent yet found any thresholds which wont look completely crap (wood colour will contrast against white and white colour would contrast the floor so I'm a bit stumped at the moment)
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Seany
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Easiest way in my experience for doing awkward cuts is to mark out the cut on the back of the wood in reverse as obviously it will be flipped over when fitting. This seems to reduces cracks and splitting. Its really a piece of piss to fit and afyer your first little mistakes marking it out or whatever you will realise what you need to do.
I tend to use an off cut or spare piece of flooring for knocking the other bits in as now and then you can get a niggly bit that doesnt want to join in. And the best bit of advise I can give is to work from the longest straightest wall. That way your not trying to rip down loads of full lengths of board at the end.
Sounds harder than it is tbh.
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Dan
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Don't use that crap edging stuff all around the room.
Do the job properly. Remove all skirting board, then refit/fit new on top of the flooring. Looks a million times nicer.
For door frames. Lay a piece of underlay and laminate upside down beside it, then use a saw laying on its side ontop of them and cut the door frame down. You can then slide the laminate under it.
As for thresholds, use a nice aluminium silver or gold? I used gold as it matches my door handles.
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Chris C
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Registered: 2nd Jan 05
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Quickstep is the best laminate IMO !!
Fit it at work all the time.
Easiest to use and best click system available, make sure you use a nice new blade in your jigsaw and you'll be fine.
As for trims they sell bars "incizos" that are an exact match to the floor.
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Eddx14xe
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Registered: 12th Jan 10
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Quickstep is the only laminate I've fitted at work. My boss highly recommends it and always persuades customers to use this make
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