I've gotten help to install a laminate floor in my apartment, and I'm supposed to take care of installing the quarter round molding myself. HOW should I do this? Grateful for any help I can get! See picture below.
Well, either you cut off the trim and frame and lay the floor underneath, or you neatly cut the floor with a jigsaw when laying it. It's a bit difficult to fix it now without it looking amateurish.
Well, everything can be done more or less well, and this probably wasn't the best solution. But it is what it is...
You will surely get a number of suggestions on how to solve this; some good, others not so good — that's how it is on a forum.
One or some of the suggestions are the solution to your problem. I believe you will get help.
Unfortunately, it might not be from me, as a layman, this is not an everyday task for me, but I will still (since this is a forum and even amateurs can express themselves ) share some spontaneous thoughts:
1: Place the quarter round as a frame around the door frame (I assume the trim then covers the holes in the floor) and fill the space between the trim and the frame (i.e., inside the "frame" formed by the trim) with latex caulk or filler and paint the filling like the frame. Unusual solution? Sure, but now we're trying to save the mayonnaise that has curdled, and the guests are at the table...
2: Same as the previous but also arrange the trim so that the corners are not 90 degrees but "blunt" (I apologize, I am a complete idiot when it comes to explaining how I think. Which might be due to how I think...) so that the holes in the floor are covered. As before, fill the frame inward toward the door frame.
3: Fill the gaps with small laminate pieces that you glue to the edges of the laid floor, place the quarter rounds as you initially intended, and forget about it. Sure, small seams, but who looks for them?
Good luck, I believe it can be solved (even without my thoughts)!
//Ronnie
You can try putting a new smyg on top of the existing one and use a klackfoder with the klack against the wall, and maybe you can hide it that way. Quarter round looks terrible no matter how you install it. Otherwise, it's like Stefan N says, but it's late now that the floor is already laid.
I have received help to lay a laminate floor in my apartment
/Linda
The person who helped you should not do it in the future. As mentioned above, you should saw off the lower part of the trim or fine-tune with a jigsaw.
Can't you lift the floor and make it look nice instead?
I agree with the previous speaker, can't you take it up and redo it? Trekantlist I don't think will help as it is now. If it couldn't be taken up, I would probably piece together small laminate pieces and do my best to forget about it.
