help any lino fitters/carpet experts around?

twinklefish

So the measurements of my bathroom are 1m80 from back wall to just outside door, 1m25 from side wall to bath panel.

I think I've paid for 2m by 1.35m which would be the smallest amount to order and would be fine but for the fact, the lino I picked is like a very thin plank effect. http://www.rhinofloor.co.uk/resflreu/eu1/rhinofloors/uk/gb/prod_detail.asp?itemId=113824.0 I didn't get a copy of the order and the slightly confused chap in the shop didn't fill me with confidence. He also asked me to pay and then after several attempt to get his machine to accept my credit card only then did he tell me I couldn't book a fitting today! Someone would phone me to arrange that. :rolleyes2 I should have gone to the place I normally go, they have no problem working from your own measurements, work out exactly what you need based on that and can always book a fitting there and then.

Thinking about it on the way home, if it's usuall for a plank type of pattern to run up a roll and not across then I think I will end up with the lines going across the floor rather from the door to the back. Behind the toilet and sink, the tiles go to the floor and they are like a large rectangular mosaic effect which are running up and down the wall rather than across. I've just got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that lino running across and tiles running up and down are going to look stupid and I will hate it!

So I suppose the question is - does a pattern, say a plank, always run along a roll rather than across?

tru

The pattern on that particular roll runs lengthways. The smallest width is 2m, if you bought 2m x 1.35m, then it'll have to be fitted 'sideways' so it'll run across your bathroom.

Mr tru says that technically it's your responsibility to check when you buy BUT if one of his staff had sold it you and not explained, he'd happily replace it.

Very strange that they couldn't book the fitting there and then Did you go to Carpetwrong?

tru

The more I look at that vinyl, the more I like it I might get some for my hall, that's where the guinea pigs play :think:

Can you post a pic of your tiles? You never know, the two together might look great.

Doozergirl

Aesthetically, it won't make a blind bit of difference which way your 'planks' will run. Your tiles are totally different, there's no design law that says you have to have things running in the same direction.

It looks quite nice, that floor

twinklefish

ok so I've raked out a stripey placemat and been flinging it around the bathroom floor and now I'm not too fussed which way it goes really...either looks ok with the tiles....it's a good job it's only me and the cat tonight :rotfl:

It is a rather groovy vinyl. It's a bit redder than the pics and had some grey, brown and green in it. It was all heading towards a being a bit beige and boring until I spotted it!

It was a local carpet shop...usually you get better service. In the past Carpetwrong have managed to knock a radiator off a wall damaging the pipe and flooding the room and John Lewis couldn't work out the correct number of carpet tiles for an odd shaped hall and I was left with a gap for 6 weeks whilst they ordered one blooming tile!!!