Which one comes first - Carpets / Laminate / skirting boards / Architraves

aj9648

I am redecorating bedrooms and hallway. Carpets are going in bedrooms and laminate (or LVT) in the hallway. Also replacing all the skirts / architraves at the same time as well as plastering and decorating the whole place

For the laminate I think it is best to put the laminate down first and the skirts / architraves on top for a flush finish - unless my thought process is not right....??

Is it the other way round for carpets? Do the skirts and woodwork go down first?

bertiewhite

aj9648 wrote: »

For the laminate I think it is best to put the laminate down first and the skirts / architraves on top for a flush finish - unless my thought process is not right....??

Is it the other way round for carpets? Do the skirts and woodwork go down first?

I'd say you're right - I had a new build several years ago and asked the builders to loosely pin the skirting so that I could lay laminate and then fit the skirting over the gap as I think the beading that is usually used with laminate looks so tacky.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Skirting and architrave first in the rooms to be carpeted.

Laminate flooring before skirting board and architrave - although architrave not as important as even if fitted first it can be easily undercut.

J_B

Our builder put skirtings in first, flush to the floor, then fitted our LVT tight up to it and siliconed all round the edges.


Seemed very tedious to me and I would have thought t'other way round would have been much easier, but hey ho, what do I know!

Dan-Dan

Laminate usually needs an expansion gap which skirting fits over nicely