The Challenge: Install click flooring wall in the bathroom without attaching it to the wall.
Hello!
I live in a rental apartment and am planning to install two beams against one of the walls in my bathroom on which I will lay a click floor. I have done this before in a living room with great success; easy, stylish, and cheap.
Now I face the challenge of doing the same installation in a bathroom where under no circumstances am I allowed to drill into the wall. Initially, I thought of gluing two beams to the wall. Waterproof glue with sufficient adhesion would probably work. But I suspect it will be a huge job to remove when I move.
Instead, I've come up with another idea that I would like input on. The idea is somewhat based on the way telescopic rods for shower curtains are mounted.
My idea is to buy two beams that are to be attached to the wall. At the ends of the beams, I drill in T-nuts and insert bolts halfway into these. A beam including half-screwed bolts is then about the ceiling height in my bathroom. Along the floor by the wall where I intend to mount the beams, I lay a thin strip with a rubber strip underneath.
Then I position the beams, place an overlying strip just like the one on the floor. Screw out the bolts as tightly as I dare. The beams are now held against the wall by the pressure from the extended bolts.
My question. Do you think this will hold? Are there flaws in my plan? Another idea is to place the beams horizontally and mount them in the same way, but vertically feels more natural to me since the force will act downward when the floor is attached to the beams.
I live in a rental apartment and am planning to install two beams against one of the walls in my bathroom on which I will lay a click floor. I have done this before in a living room with great success; easy, stylish, and cheap.
Now I face the challenge of doing the same installation in a bathroom where under no circumstances am I allowed to drill into the wall. Initially, I thought of gluing two beams to the wall. Waterproof glue with sufficient adhesion would probably work. But I suspect it will be a huge job to remove when I move.
Instead, I've come up with another idea that I would like input on. The idea is somewhat based on the way telescopic rods for shower curtains are mounted.
My idea is to buy two beams that are to be attached to the wall. At the ends of the beams, I drill in T-nuts and insert bolts halfway into these. A beam including half-screwed bolts is then about the ceiling height in my bathroom. Along the floor by the wall where I intend to mount the beams, I lay a thin strip with a rubber strip underneath.
Then I position the beams, place an overlying strip just like the one on the floor. Screw out the bolts as tightly as I dare. The beams are now held against the wall by the pressure from the extended bolts.
My question. Do you think this will hold? Are there flaws in my plan? Another idea is to place the beams horizontally and mount them in the same way, but vertically feels more natural to me since the force will act downward when the floor is attached to the beams.
