Floor Trims & Accessories

Floor trims are also called transition strips, mouldings, profiles or edging. Each shape has its own name:

• Scotia, or scotia beading, covers the gap at the skirting.
• T-moulding, or a T-bar, joins two floors at the same height.
• A reducer, or ramp, steps down to a lower floor.
• L-moulding, or end trim, finishes an edge where the floor stops.
• Stair nosing wraps the front edge of a step.

Look at what's on each side of the join. The same floor at the same height takes a T-moulding. A lower floor, like tiles, vinyl, concrete or carpet, takes a reducer. Where the floor just stops, at a sliding door track, a hearth or a step, use an L-moulding. Stairs take stair nosing on every step.

Where the floor runs more than 12m, yes: our hybrid floors need a break there, and laminate and timber need one after 8m. Put the break in a doorway and cover it with a T-moulding. For our hybrid, a break at each doorway between rooms is best, so each room can move on its own.

Wherever the floor changes, or steps down to tiles or carpet, you need a trim too.

Our hybrid floors need an 8 to 18mm gap at every wall, door frame and fixed object: 8 to 10mm where humidity is low or average, and 10 to 18mm where it's humid. Undercut door frames so the boards slide under them with the gap still there.

The trim covers the gap. It must never close it or pin the floor down.

Never to the floating floor: it has to move under the trim. On our 6.5mm floors, screw or glue the PVC base channel to the subfloor, lay the floors up to it, then clip the T-moulding or reducer in on top. The 9.5mm T-moulding and the L-moulding are bedded on flexible construction adhesive.

Scotia goes on the skirting, and stair nosing is glued and screwed to the step. Don't use silicone or caulk along the edges: it stops the floor moving.

Scotia and L-moulding come in 2.4m lengths. Measure the metres to cover, divide by 2.4, round up and add one spare for the corners: 18m of wall needs 9 lengths.

One T-moulding or reducer length does two standard doorways, sometimes three. Stair nosing is one length per step. Each trim's page works out the lengths for you.

A reducer, when the tiles sit lower than the hybrid. It slopes down to the tiles, so there's no edge to trip on. Ours suit our 6.5mm hybrid colours: 2400 × 43 × 10mm, $19.80 a length, with a PVC base channel underneath. Tiles at the same height take a T-moulding. On 9.5mm hybrid, finish the edge with the matching L-moulding.

A reducer. It covers the edge of the hybrid and slopes down toward the carpet. Fix its base channel to the subfloor first, then clip the reducer in. On 9.5mm hybrid, the matching L-moulding finishes the edge.

It needs one of them, because the gap at the walls has to be covered. Keeping your skirting? Fit scotia along its base. Replacing your skirting? Lay the floor first, then fit the new skirting over the gap. Then you don't need scotia.

Yes. Each trim is made to match one of our hybrid floor colours: 19 colours across our 6.5mm and 9.5mm ranges. Pick your floor in the trim finder at the top of this page to see its trims. Not sure which colour you have? Order free samples of the floor first: you just cover shipping.

Right here, from Hybrid Floors Australia. Every trim ships Australia-wide from our Brisbane warehouse, on its own or with your floor. Or pick it up free from the warehouse with click and collect. Delivery is worked out at checkout.