Trims & Thresholds

Trims, thresholds, scotia and profiles are how a floor stops looking like a DIY job. They cover expansion gaps, transition between rooms, protect edges, and quietly do the finishing work that separates a professional install from an amateur one. Almost every floor needs at least two profiles per room.

Pros

• +Hide expansion gaps — required for every floating floor
• +Protect vulnerable edges from chipping and lifting
• +Neat room-to-room transitions across different floor types & heights
• +Aluminium, wood-effect and colour-matched options for any floor

Trade-offs

• −Cheap self-adhesive profiles lift within a year — use screw-fix
• −Wrong profile spoils a good install — match to the specific floor's height

FAQs

• Do I need thresholds between every room?

  For click and floating floors, yes — expansion gaps must be maintained at every doorway. For glue-down floors, only where the flooring type or height changes.

• Can I use one long piece of floor between rooms?

  For runs over 10 m, no. Expansion demands a T-bar every ~10 m regardless of doorways.