gap between vanity/floortiles

[gorotsuki69]

Hi
It's my first post here so please bear with me
I'm renovating my bathroom and just had a new vanity installed, however because the floor is uneven towards the drainhole there is a 2cm gap between the bottom of the vanity and the floor tiles. It's too large a gap I think to fill with grout , any other suggestions how to cover that gap?

thanks in advance

[DJ’s Timber]

Normally the kicker panel is scribed to follow the line of the floor, but in your case it seem to have already been installed prior to installation.

Can you remove the original kicker and getting a wider one cut to suit?

[gorotsuki69]

Nope the vanity is a pre-made one by Marbletrend so the kicker panel is built in

[journeyman Mick]

Depending on the vanity's construction one would usually scribe it to the floor. (ie: plane the bottom of it down so that it sat level and in contact all around.) It may be too late /impossible to do this in your case due to construction or plumbing attachments. It may be possible to fit a false kicker at the front out of the same material as the vanity construction but don't know that you could do this around the side. Other possibilities are to bring your skirting (if fitted) around the vanity or fit a skirt of half height floor tiles around it.

Mick

[DJ’s Timber]

What about buying a wider piece and cutting it to suit and glue to the face of the existing kicker

[rod1949]

Cut and stick the same floor tiles on it. To fill the gap it may require a filler or fit a fibro rip and stick the tiles to it. Sticking the tiles with silicon sealer ie bathroom type will work a treat.

[gorotsuki69]

thanks for the responses
I will stick floor tiles up as suggested

[bricks]

I'd go with a thin sheet of melamine laminate cut to shape with a stanley knife with some support glued in behind it

[rod1949]

I'd go with a thin sheet of melamine laminate cut to shape with a stanley knife with some support glued in behind it

What a load of crap. Given its location - wet area - it will come un stuck be cupped a bowed and look like crap all the time.

[pawnhead]

What a load of crap. Given its location - wet area - it will come un stuck be cupped a bowed and look like crap all the time.

Yes, it's not wise to have the kickboard in contact with the floor whereby it can suck up moisture. It should be scribed and then edge stripped, but then elevated by a few millimetres using spacers, or corner blocks, or those little plastic dome head feet.
I suppose that gives somewhere else for the cockys to squeeze under, but I suppose that you could also fill the gap with silicone, and use your finger heavily against it to wipe it back so that its not seen, leaving just a shadow line at the floor.

[Ivan in Oz]

thanks for the responses
I will stick floor tiles up as suggested

G'day gorotsuki69,
Any chance of Photos of what you do?
I'm going there soon;
BUT my tiles are 305 x 305 so might be some XS Wastage

Ta,
Ivan

[gorotsuki69]

G'day gorotsuki69,
Any chance of Photos of what you do?
I'm going there soon;
BUT my tiles are 305 x 305 so might be some XS Wastage

Ta,
Ivan

no probs, will have a pic up soon

[gorotsuki69]

for Ivan
very happy with the result

[rod1949]

Looks mickey mouse.
It was realy to only way to go.