Edited on 09 10 2012 by sam dave.
Gap between skirting board and tiled floor.
The floor has ceramic tiles which were obviously fitted after the skirting i e.
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.
The tiles abut the skirting rather than going under it.
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.
Floor skirting tiles can be considered as a way of finishing a tiled floor and as such must be thought of in conjunction.
While insulating our floors should hopefully help keep our rooms nice and cosy and save on our energy bills there s not much point in installing a load of insulation under the floors if we leave huge gaps between the skirting and floorboards in the rooms above.
If you have a tiled floor real tiles not the pretend vinyl ones and there is a gap between the tiles and the skirting boards is it ok to seal said gaps with some kind of silicone sealant.
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This article considers wall skirting for different types of tiled flooring in different styles and how best to use it in the various rooms of the home.
This is in the ground floor of a house btw not a bathroom.
There is a rather ragged gap which had contained various sorts of filler and also looked a mess.
Now i m unsure what i should do with this gap.
I have pulled all of that out.