Shadow gap and engineered timber floor??

[Sarah83]

Hi, 

I've been reading previous posts about the use of shadow gaps and timber flooring and am still having trouble seeing how this is achievable if you skim the walls and then lay the flooring afterwards.

 

Construction is block wall with dot and dab plasterboard with Qic Type-R shadow gap profile, to finish at floor level with no skirting board, and then hopefully engineered timber flooring.

 

Clearly laying the flooring and then the drylining and skim would be the easiest process, but this goes against flooring manufacturer's guidelines for laying and presumably the levels of humidity would be too high?

 

Does anyone have any experience of constructing this detail on site to enlighten us?

 

Thanks.

[nod]

It’s quite easily to do 

Exactly the same as with a skirting 

When I do a shadow gap I set the heigh with a laser and work down  Gap skirting FF 

Any floor levelling needs to be done prior to setting out 

Your dry liners just need to set a laser line allowing for you gap and FF Then plug and fix a tile baton 

Allowing 5 mil for the bead 

Once it’s all beaded and skinned you can put your floor in sure that you are working to a level perimeter That will tie in will all your doors

 

Ive been to jobs Costas and similar

where the floor has had to go in first and apart from the sheeting 
Your stuck with what is already down