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Laminat Flooring - Wood Floor Trim
Another thing to consider when doing your laminate flooring job are your transitions. Transitions are used when going from one flooring to the other one. For example, you might go from hardwood to carpet, or from hardwood to linoleum. These transition pieces are needed because of the difference in height from one type of flooring to another. Note how many of each type of transition you will need.
Laminate Trim and Transitions
For example a doorway that has wood on one side and carpet on another site. Measure the opening. Usually, the transition pieces that you will buy have enough material to do two standard door openings. Note how many openings of the same style (carpet to wood) and add them up. If you have 5, you will have to buy 3 transition pieces.
There are several styles of transitions pieces available, so you will have to take good notes and see what is available at the store of your city you visit. In this project you will see two different types of transitions from carpet to wood and from linoleum to wood. I also use a stair piece, but that is not really a transition.
Other Trim Options
Depending on how you do your job you may want or need other trim options. Things like quarter-round or edging. Look for problems and then look at what is available at the store. There is usually quite a large selection and most problems are common enough to denote a ready made solution.
This project allowed us to do two rooms, the kitchen and the dining room. There was also a hallway and an entry. All surfaces were covered with carpet.
The hallway and entry way gave us a particular challenge, since the two rooms were joined. The layout made the installation tough, as there was no single point of reference. You will see now how that made things interesting.
The first thing that we had to do was tear up the old carpet.
In this particular case the baseboard and casing was installed right down on the wood subfloor, which was tongue and groove planks. I have no idea why because the planks were never finished. The trim was very nice and typical Victorian, so why the floor was never finished, I have no idea, but the house was a hundred years old so no telling what had occurred.
Carpet is held down with tack strip that is nailed to the floor around the perimeter of the room. You can usually pull it up fairly easy. Once you get a corner up, it is pretty easy. I also enlisted some help to roll the carpet up, that made it even easier.
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