To ensure that you have a successful flooring experience you need to make sure that you are not missing out any of the flooring accessories that you might want to add to your flooring collection. Flooring accessories can both make sure that your flooring looks good and make sure that your floor will last for a very long time. It is recommended to purchase the flooring accessories when purchasing the flooring and installing them when installing the flooring to make sure that you’re extending your flooring life since the start. Here’s a quick guide on the different flooring accessories options that you have, their uses and how they can benefit your flooring.

Transition Strips are usually installed as the last step of flooring installation. Floor transition strips are available to provide full coverage for gaps that are available due to expansion therefore providing a perfect finished look.

Here are a few types of floor transition strips

• Reducer Transition Strips
  Reducer Transition Strips are applied when the surface level of the flooring is not evened. You place those transition strips to make sure that the flooring surface is at an even surface. This usually happens when you’re installing the flooring in an area where you want to apply two different flooring materials.
• End Transition Strips
  It’s very similar to reducer transition strips which means it is used when the surface of the floor is not at an even space but it’s preferably used when the difference in the surface is thicker than usual. For example a high thick carpet and laminate floors.
• T-Transition Strips
  T- Transition strips are used when you want to separate the flooring and doorways as well as separate between two different floorings that are at the same level. For example when you want to install one type of flooring in one big room. It’s shaped like a T therefore it’s called T- transition strips, and can help connect different rooms together.
• Baseboard transition strips
  These transition strips are used as a transition between two different shaped surfaces for example horizontal and vertical. Like placing a transition strips between your laminate floor and the wall. The advantage of these transition strips is that they can be changed in color according to the color of your flooring and wall by simply painting it.

Skirting Boards Skirting Boards are boards that run along the wall. They can be added for protection or you can just add them to add extra decoration to the room. You can easily install them by using a screw, nailing them to the wall, or gluing them.

These skirting boards are used for the following reasons

• Getting rid of marks or wires on the edge of the walls
  Electrical wires or stained marks from moisture can be unseen by installing skirting boards. For this particular reason, there have been skirting boards made from PVC.
• Covering empty spaces
  If there were empty spaces between the flooring and the walls you can use skirting boards to cover the gaps between them after installing your flooring.
• Protection
  Skirting boards can provide a layer of protection for the wall and the flooring from the furniture. It will help keep a certain amount of space between the furniture and the wall therefore making sure that the walls are kept maintained for a long time without being scratched.
• Decoration
  Skirting boards may be added to provide extra decoration to the room by making the floor a perfect finished product. You can also match the color of the skirting board with the color of the flooring so that you have your room decorated better.
• Beadings
  Installing beadings is very simple and could be the easiest part to finish off the whole flooring installation process. Make sure you purchase a beading that matches your flooring since there are plenty of different designs and colors of beadings. It’s useful for providing extra protection for your flooring by installing it in the gaps between the flooring and the skirting boards. You can install it practically anywhere, around your fireplace, under your radiator, and around the entire room giving it a beautiful ending touch.