Glasgow, Glasgow
Flooring fitters in Glasgow
Almost every flooring problem we get called to look at in Glasgow is a subfloor problem wearing a different hat. Cupping, gaps opening up, a floor that ticks underfoot: the covering usually gets the blame and the thing underneath it is usually the cause.
Tenement floors move
Original timber boards in a Glasgow flat flex, they are rarely level, and they have usually been lifted more than once for pipework. Laying engineered board or LVT straight over that without overboarding or levelling first gives you a floor that looks excellent for a year and then starts telling you about every joist below it.
Acclimatisation and expansion
Wood floors need time in the room before they go down, and they need an expansion gap around the perimeter afterwards. Skipping either is the usual reason a floor lifts in the middle or gaps at the edges once the heating goes on for the winter. It costs nothing except a few days of patience.
Noise, and the flat below
If you are in a flat with someone underneath you, acoustic underlay is not an optional extra, and in many tenement leases there is an obligation about floor coverings worth checking before you take up the carpet. A hard floor laid over a bare tenement deck is the single most common cause of a neighbour dispute we hear about.
Finishing the edges
Skirting off and refitted over the new floor looks far better than beading scribed around the old skirting, particularly against a deep period profile. Thresholds between rooms get a proper trim rather than a strip of metal, and doors are eased where the new floor height demands it.