I'm currently laying some engineered floor in my new house (wanted to pay someone to do it but they all wanted stupid money. Bit scary to start with but done 1 room now and I'm feeling more confident).
I've decided to remove the fugly painted skirting (after having repaired walls and painted unfortunately. I thought I could paint-strip it.. gave up on that), which was laying straight on the floors (wood upstairs, vinyl tiles over concrete downstairs.)
Unfortunately, as the radiators water pipes downstairs are running right above the skirting, I cannot replace with larger skirtings (or even the same size since the floor will now be 26mm higher).
So I need skirting of 50mm.. which it seems is impossible to find (even for upstairs, were I don't have the problem, it's hard to find 70mm ones. I don't like large skirting).
Before someone says it: I can't use scotia/quadrant as the wall is bare behind and it'd be way too much work to fix/prepare/paint it (I'm running out of time).
I don't think trimming 70mm would be easy either (I've had enough trouble cutting a board lenghtwise!).
Any suggestion?
Also, I'm not sure how I'm suppose to fix T thresholds in the doorways seeing as none of the T mouldings are high enough (again, 21mm thick boards + 5mm underlay)
thanks
I've decided to remove the fugly painted skirting (after having repaired walls and painted unfortunately. I thought I could paint-strip it.. gave up on that), which was laying straight on the floors (wood upstairs, vinyl tiles over concrete downstairs.)
Unfortunately, as the radiators water pipes downstairs are running right above the skirting, I cannot replace with larger skirtings (or even the same size since the floor will now be 26mm higher).
So I need skirting of 50mm.. which it seems is impossible to find (even for upstairs, were I don't have the problem, it's hard to find 70mm ones. I don't like large skirting).
Before someone says it: I can't use scotia/quadrant as the wall is bare behind and it'd be way too much work to fix/prepare/paint it (I'm running out of time).
I don't think trimming 70mm would be easy either (I've had enough trouble cutting a board lenghtwise!).
Any suggestion?
Also, I'm not sure how I'm suppose to fix T thresholds in the doorways seeing as none of the T mouldings are high enough (again, 21mm thick boards + 5mm underlay)
thanks
