Filling Gaps Skirting Board Floor

How to fill gaps in wood floors.

Filling gaps skirting board floor.

The image shows the 4mm gap that is often found between the skirting board and the floor. The gap may look small but a 12 x 12ft room has skirting board gap area of approximately 0 623ft 2 which can lead to significant heat loss and increased energy bills. As your skirting boards and floor boards are natural timber they have the chance of shrinking from day to day exposure to the climate inside a home such as. Whether you need advice for filling gaps between skirting boards and floor or the floorboards themselves check out the following methods.

This gap is best covered by a quad moulding fixed to the floor that can slip up and down the skirting as the floor moves between wet and dry seasons keeping the gap covered. There will be a gap left between the wall and your first board to allow for any swelling and movement and then your skirting will then be butted down hard against the timber floor. After having our floors sanded and varnished we didn t want to risk messing them up again with caulk so we decided to use some window sealing tape to fill the gaps. Another exacerbating condition is water damage.

Or if your house is masonry and old the gap could be the result of floors supported on piers subsiding independently of the walls. Whether you re preparing to paint your walls or just notice a gap between the wall and the skirting boards it s easy to repair with selleys no more gaps fas. The problem is magnified when the boards were not tightly laid in the first place. The tape we used is called weatherstrip and seals gaps from 2 8 mm.

With older tongue and groove hardwood or even wide plank floors gaps inevitably develop between the boards mostly because the wood shrinks over time as it dries out and loses moisture content. If you are fitting or refinishing your tongue and groove floor try using pva glue and sawdust and following these steps.