Wood flooring advice

adonis10

I am looking to replace the carpet with wood flooring in our home office, but have fixed units which I don’t intend to move so looking for some advice as to the best approach. Not as easy as flooring a clear area so any tips appreciated.

- box room converted to office with units and a desk

- square room so ordinarily a nice easy job

- what would be the best way to install the floor up to the units?

- how would you finish the edging where the flooring hits the units?

 

some pics attached 

victor2

How are you going to get the old carpet out without moving the units?

Wooden floors are noisy, especially if there are rooms underneath.

Remove the units!

adonis10

victor2 said:

How are you going to get the old carpet out without moving the units?

Wooden floors are noisy, especially if there are rooms underneath.

Remove the units!

Plan to cut it away as far beneath the units as possible so underneath won’t be visible.

unit and desk (which is fixed in) removal is a no no, too much faff. Just looking for advice really, if it doesn’t seem feasible we’ll leave it as is.

grumbler

adonis10 said:

I am looking to replace the carpet with wood flooring in our home office, but have fixed units which I don’t intend to move so looking for some advice as to the best approach.

That's not what you want to hear, but for me the only approach would be to move.

Gavin83

adonis10 said:

victor2 said:

How are you going to get the old carpet out without moving the units?

Wooden floors are noisy, especially if there are rooms underneath.

Remove the units!

Plan to cut it away as far beneath the units as possible so underneath won’t be visible.

unit and desk (which is fixed in) removal is a no no, too much faff. Just looking for advice really, if it doesn’t seem feasible we’ll leave it as is.

Any idea how thick the wooden flooring is?

I suspect the underneath of those units are hollow so if you cut back the carpet far enough you may find they're no longer supported sufficiently and fall a little.

If the carpet is quite thick and the wooden flooring quite thin you may get away with removing the carpet and sliding the wooden flooring underneath. However this will be a headache and the correct method would be to fit the floor before the units. Now this has passed the best method would be to remove the units and fit it.

The other option is you run the flooring up to the units and then run beading round the edge. It's a bodge though and I suspect you'll never be happy with the finish.

Simonon77

I think I would leave the carpet until the next time you are looking to do major changes and need to remove the units. One problem is if you just add wood flooring up to the units, in the future if the units are or moved within the room, you will have patches of floor with no wood flooring on them 

UncleZen

Move the units, don't bodge it.
Put the floor down, refit units.
If you don't you'll forever regret it

adonis10

Thanks all. I won’t be doing the work in this case! Removing the units isn’t an option, the desk etc is all fixed in and fixed together in 3 parts which I don’t want to undo, it’d never go back the way it is now.

No problem, a carpet clean will be much cheaper anyway!

moscovium115

Wise decision.