Levarne Sobotker....although the tiles are beautiful you are very brave having those very glossy tiles throughout your whole house...from experience of having glossy tiles - they show every mark and really need cleaning multiple times a week - and you can't just mop very glossy tiles because the water marks show when they dry on - so you have to do small areas at a time and dry as you go - it will take an age to clean them if you have them through a whole house. We have gloss tiles in a couple of bathrooms and I would never choose them again. They are also very slippery when wet.

You are correct, it's a totally different process with floating floors. You need a solid base for them to be laid on such as yell tongue. The kitchen is installed first without the kickers and the floating floor then laid. The kickers are fitted last to cover the edge of the flora ting floor so that there is no requirement for a edge trim. Your cabinetmaker needs to be aware of what flooring is being used as this will affect the finished height of the bench tops +/- 19mm.

Hi, the lights were sourced from Cromwell Australia, who are located in High Street, Prahran. Unfortunately, however you can not buy direct from them as they are a wholesaler to the trade only. Please let me know if I can help you and thanks for your lovely comments.

Hi Nicole, you actually don't need quad for Vinyl flooring. Regarding the correct sequence of installation there is actually a right way; in the building process the Door frames, Architrave and Skirting (second fix carpentry) should always be installed first and then these are painted before any of the floor finishes are installed. This applies to all types of floor finishes (tiles, carpet, vinyl, parquetry and floating floors). A good professional vinyl-floor-layer will scribe the Vinyl to the shape of your walls and door jamb openings for a perfect fit and seal. Non-professionals think it is ok or easier to put the skirting on after the flooring because they do not have the skill to scribe the vinyl perfectly up to the skirting, but they soon find they will still have unsightly gaps. This is because Floors are not perfectly flat and skirting is not perfectly straight so where they meet there will always be variable unsightly gaps with insect and dirt traps between the two surfaces, unless you then use quad to cover these gaps or go to the enormous task of scribing the skirting to the undulations in the floor. It is a lot easier to scribe the vinyl to the skirting and it provides a far better finish too. I hope this helps, Malcolm.