P/board height from floor?

[Waldo]

G'day Peter,

So it looks like I'm back to my original question. Are you saying the skirting board needs to be 10mm from the floor + allowance for carpet and underlay? Or just the 10mm from floor to allow for expansion as Rod posted?

[Wood Butcher]

I think the skirting board normally rests on the concrete or maybe a few mm up but no more.

[Waldo]

G'day,

OK, I thought I'd search for a gyprock site and found one, and as Rod said and quoting the Gyprock site: http://www.gyprock.com.au/technical/...958A4CE598.pdf

It says:

"• Lift the sheet about 10mm from the floor by placing
a few off-cuts of plasterboard beneath your sheet".

Thanks everyone for your help.

[ThePope]

G'day Peter,

So it looks like I'm back to my original question. Are you saying the skirting board needs to be 10mm from the floor + allowance for carpet and underlay? Or just the 10mm from floor to allow for expansion as Rod posted?

Lift your gyprock 10mm.
Skirting goes hard onto floor, no gap.

[Waldo]

G'day Pope,

Thanks.

[Sturdee]

G'day Peter,

So it looks like I'm back to my original question. Are you saying the skirting board needs to be 10mm from the floor + allowance for carpet and underlay? Or just the 10mm from floor to allow for expansion as Rod posted?

As the Pope said.

To keep the skirting level I'll have to do that since the floor falls away a bit towards the edge of the slab.

If your floor falls away towards the edge of the slab more than the thickness of the carpet and underlay you will have to scribe your skirting board to avoid unsightly gaps when the carpet has been laid.

Peter.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Smooth edge. I knew I'd remember, eventually.

I've never heard of 10mm as being "the standard" but it's about what we use anyway... give or take 5mm. [shrug] Enough overlap over the plate for support, not so short that the skirting "rocks" off vertical when tacked. Actually, it depends on how wide the offcuts are and whether some dangerous bugger with a framing gun got the wall-height spot on.

Not that I'm a plasterer, mind. God forbid! I'm just the silly bugger they co-opt 'cos they're in my way. "Oy! You're not doing anything, come 'ere and give us a hand!"

Chosen the carpet colours yet? You got free rein or has SWMBO decided she wants a say? Sawdust colour with blood-red spatters hides a multitude of sins.

[Waldo]

G'day Skew,

Nope, I've got free reigns to it all, except for the "you said we were going to stop spending for abit!", to which I reply "you want me out of the house and into the shed don't you?. Right" ".

Looking at a deep colour for the carpet, the feature wall will be an ochery colour which should hide any blood stains.

See the bloke on Medical Emergency who put a nail gun through his knee cap into the bone? :eek:

Did I let some dangerous bugger into my shed? :eek: (probably no more dangerous than I am to myself )