floating, click-together plank flooring
Shortly, I will begin to install plank cork floating, click-together flooring over 3/4″ subfloor. I will be using a power miter box with a 10″ blade to do this, and have heard that gaps at the walls should be somewhere between 1/4″ and 3/4″.
My questions are: what do I do at the doorways, when the plane of the closed door is parallel to the long side of the planks; and what do I do when the walls are out of square? How do I deal with either partial-width or tapering-width planks?
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"what do I do at the doorways, when the plane of the closed door is parallel to the long side of the planks"
I usually install a threshhold. Use theirs or make one. If you make one, allow the proper expansion gap under the leading edge of the threshhold.
and what do I do when the walls are out of square? How do I deal with either partial-width or tapering-width planks?
Taper the planks. Try to split the tapers between both sides of the room so it's not as obvious.
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
"have heard that gaps at the walls should be somewhere between 1/4" and 3/4"."
Instead of what you have HEARD you need to use the manufacutres specific instructions.
That is a huge range.
I recently installed some in a small half bath and it was a nightmare getting it to snap together right in a small space like that. Ill never use the click together stuff in a small space again. Each manufact. has their own trim and threshold systems. Its all laid out in the instructions that come in the box.