Flooring Accessories

The trims and edging pieces around a floor do more than tidy things up: they cover expansion gaps, protect edges, and handle the transitions between rooms and floor types. This range covers scotia and quadrant beading, skirting boards, stair nosings, and thresholds and edgings, in solid oak, veneered, and MDF options.

Covering the expansion gap: scotia and quadrant

Every floating floor needs a small gap around its edge to allow for natural expansion and contraction as temperature and humidity shift through the year. Scotia and quadrant beading sits over that gap where the floor meets the skirting board, hiding it while still leaving the floor free to move underneath. Scotia has a concave curve to its profile, while quadrant is a simpler quarter-round shape; both do the same job, so the choice mostly comes down to which one matches the style of your existing skirting board. Both are available in solid oak and MDF, with lacquered, oiled, or unfinished options depending on whether you want a factory finish or plan to match the colour to your floor yourself.

Protecting the wall line

Skirting boards do double duty: they cover the joint between wall and floor, and they take the knocks and scuffs that furniture, vacuum cleaners, and general foot traffic would otherwise leave on the wall itself. If your existing skirting is in reasonable shape but looking tired, a paintable MDF cover is a straightforward way to refresh the look without ripping out and replacing the boards underneath. For a full match to a new wood floor, solid oak and veneered skirting give a genuine wood grain and colour that a painted MDF board can't replicate, though they come at a higher price point.

A safer step edge

A stair nosing caps the front edge of a step, which matters for safety as much as appearance, since a worn or missing nosing leaves a less defined edge that's easier to misjudge underfoot, particularly on a staircase you use every day without thinking about it. Nosings in this range are sized to match specific floor thicknesses, most commonly 15mm or 20mm, and the depth of the nosing itself needs to correspond to that. It's worth measuring your actual floor thickness before ordering rather than assuming, since a mismatch here is one of the more common accessory ordering mistakes.

Joining two floors

Thresholds handle the point where two different floor types meet, typically in a doorway between rooms. Flat and T-shaped thresholds are the right choice when both floors sit at roughly the same height, giving a clean, level transition with no trip hazard. Reducer thresholds are angled instead, and are designed for situations where one floor is noticeably thicker than the other, such as an engineered wood floor meeting a thinner vinyl or tile floor in an adjoining room. Getting this choice right matters more than it might seem, since the wrong threshold type can leave either a visible step or an unstable, wobbly transition.

Getting the sizing right

Because these are all sold by exact width, thickness and length rather than a single universal size, it's worth measuring the gap, step, or transition you're covering before placing an order rather than estimating from memory. If you're unsure which profile or size matches your existing floor, call us on 020 8830 9789 and we can help you match it before you order.

FAQ

What's the difference between scotia and quadrant beading?
Scotia has a concave curved profile; quadrant is a simple quarter-round. Both cover the same expansion gap between floor and skirting, so the choice is mostly about which shape suits your skirting board.

What's the difference between a flat threshold and a reducer threshold?
A flat threshold joins two floors of a similar height. A reducer threshold is angled to bridge a height difference between two floors, such as wood meeting a thinner vinyl floor.

How do I know what size stair nosing I need?
Stair nosings are sized to match specific floor thicknesses, commonly 15mm or 20mm. Check your floor's actual thickness against the nosing's stated compatibility before ordering.