skirting

[FreeD]

Hi all

I've got a job to price up its onto wooden floor boards...i was goning to overboard the wooden floorboards with hardibacker boards then tile...theres really old big chunky skirting all around the room...as i'm raising the floor approx 20mm i'm worried its going to look crap butting up against the skirting...

what do you advise to remove the skirting and then sit back on top?

thanks Aaron

[BDS]

If possible remove skirting,tile floor then replace it its the best way,,,

[grumpygrouter]

Deffo remove the skirting if the customer allows. Just done a bathroom floor where the skirting had to stay. Looked really well with nice consistent cuts up to the skirt...then you silicone it and it spoils the whole shebang!

[FreeD]

grumpy can't u part fill the gap between the skirting and tile with silicone then fill with grout when silicone has gone off?

or use same colour as grout silicone?

i take it we are talking about the expansion joint at the edge of floor should be 4mm between tiles and skirting?

[whitebeam]

Some of them old skirting are so dry they may split when trying to remove, Would you be able to replace if they were damaged. Personally with the large skirting as you described would leave fixed.

[FreeD]

To be honest with you i wanted an excuse to get her to repalce the skirting big and chunky but has been fitted really poorly and i think it will make my job look ****e so will give her the option of bring ing the carpenter to refit old (if its possible to remove without damaging) or replace...i guess she can do it at later date anyway.

[whitebeam]

Sneaky

[grumpygrouter]

grumpy can't u part fill the gap between the skirting and tile with silicone then fill with grout when silicone has gone off?

or use same colour as grout silicone?

i take it we are talking about the expansion joint at the edge of floor should be 4mm between tiles and skirting?

I used grey BAL microseal to match the grey Superflex grout. The tiles were a grey patterned porcelain thing from CTD. Before the siliconing, the finish was really pleasing to the eye when you first view the room, after the silicone was applied, it just seemed to lose its impact. Bit hard to explain, but it would have just been so much better if I could have fitted the skirts on top of the tiles instead.

If you fill with grout, you are then reducing the movement capacity of the joint!

just loaded a pic to my floor album if you want to have a look.

[Dave]

Ths one russ.........

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[grumpygrouter]

That'll be the one Dave.....

[FreeD]

so where the tile meets the skirting the gap should be filled with silicone only?

looks like some fine cuts on the left have side of that pic...was the suite installed after? nice tiling.