Chevron · Weybridge

Chevron from the hall to the garden doors

VitaStyle oak chevron in #114 Spiced Oak, supplied and fitted for Nicholas R in Weybridge: 37 m², glued down, running through the hall, the lounge and the kitchen to the doors at the back.

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The base →Questions
A low view down the centre line of a light oak chevron floor towards a dining table and garden doors
Fitted by AK Hardwood · Down the centre line
Project
For Nicholas RWeybridge
Floor
VitaStyle chevron#114 Spiced Oak · 125 × 485 mm · 15/4 mm · Select Grade
Area
37 m² fittedHall, lounge and kitchen
Base
Screed, liquid DPMBona R540
Fixing
Fully bondedBona R848 adhesive
Low view across the chevron in the living room, under a TV stand, a footstool and a yellow chair
The lounge · Chevron under the furniture
The job

One line of points, front to back.

The old floor was solid bamboo. A leak in the kitchen made the boards cup and separate, so it came up. The screed underneath was made good and left exposed to dry out for about a month before we went back in to test the moisture level.

We then supplied and fitted 37 m² of VitaStyle chevron in #114 Spiced Oak, Select Grade: 125 × 485 mm blocks, 15 mm thick with a 4 mm oak wear layer. It runs from the hall at the foot of the stairs, through the lounge and kitchen, to the dining end and the garden doors.

The base

Dried, tested, sealed, glued down.

After the screed had dried out for about a month, we tested the moisture level and coated it with Bona R540, a one-part polyurethane liquid damp-proof membrane (DPM) that stops moisture coming up into the wood and the adhesive.

Every block is fully bonded: glued to the subfloor across its whole underside with Bona R848, a hard-elastic adhesive that holds the floor firmly while allowing for the wood's natural movement.

The hall
The chevron at the foot of a carpeted staircase, a length of skirting leaning by the stair

At the foot of the stairs, with a length of the new skirting waiting to go on.

Back towards the hall
The chevron running along a green wall with white skirting fitted

Looking back towards the stairs, with the new skirting on. The kitchen is to the right.

The kitchen
The chevron running up to white kitchen units

The pattern carried through to the kitchen units.

The details

Edges and doorways.

Chevron points meeting a door frame and a radiator pipe
At a door frame

The skirting

The old skirting came off before the floor went down, and new skirting was fitted afterwards to cover the expansion gap.

The chevron in the lounge meeting a chair and the end of a sofa
In the lounge

The finish

Pre-finished by VitaStyle: oiled, in #114 Spiced Oak.

Questions about this floor

Q&A

Is a chevron floor glued down?
This one is. Every block is fully bonded to the subfloor with Bona R848, a hard-elastic adhesive.
What goes under a glued-down chevron?
Here the screed was left to dry out for about a month after the old floor came up. We tested the moisture level, then coated it with Bona R540, a liquid damp-proof membrane (DPM), before the adhesive and the blocks went down.
Do the skirting boards have to come off?
On this job they did. The old skirting came off, the floor went down, and new skirting was fitted to cover the expansion gap.
Can chevron run through a hall and into the next rooms?
Yes. Here it runs from the foot of the stairs, through the lounge and kitchen, to the garden doors.
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