Installing a Floating Wood Floor in a Room with Uneven Walls

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Hi, I would like some advice if anyone can help.

Our living room floor is nice and level thanks to a self leveling concrete screed but as our house is very old all of the walls are not straight.

I have engineered wood boards that clip into one another (with adhesive too) and go on top of the underlay to form a 'floating floor'.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of advice when it comes to floating floors in rooms with angled walls on the internet. If the walls were straight I'd start at the top left longest wall but the boards would be all skewed. I can't start at the centre and work my way outwards as I can't secure them down.

Would my best option be to use a chalk line down the centre of the room and then work out what angle i need to cut my boards that go up against the wall so that the rest remain straight?

I've attached a rough floor plan i just scribbled if it helps.
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Thank you,

Regards,

AJ
 
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Plenty experts on here to give you best advice but are you determined on laying them 'length-wise'? Seems to me that your back wall is straight (according to the diagram) so possible to lay the boards width-wise?

Starting at the top end (I assume it's a fireplace?) you can achieve a straight line across. Then it's a case of just cutting the board ends to shape/size either side as you go along the long walls (leaving room for expansion gap) Seems to me that is much easier than having to cut boards to an awkward shape along their whole length.

However, best to wait for one of the experts to answer as I am certainly NOT an expert.
 
Plenty experts on here to give you best advice but are you determined on laying them 'length-wise'? Seems to me that your back wall is straight (according to the diagram) so possible to lay the boards width-wise?

Starting at the top end (I assume it's a fireplace?) you can achieve a straight line across. Then it's a case of just cutting the board ends to shape/size either side as you go along the long walls (leaving room for expansion gap) Seems to me that is much easier than having to cut boards to an awkward shape along their whole length.

However, best to wait for one of the experts to answer as I am certainly NOT an expert.

Sorry my doodle is a bit deceiving. All of the walls are in fact not straight, including the chimney breast area. Thanks for your suggestion though.
 
Is the chimney breast itself straight?
 
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Start on the wall furthest to the door, lay a row but don't glue it, get that row straight to the room (not to the wall) Scribe with a pencil the uneven wall line onto the flooring, take up the flooring, cut the leading edge/scribe line. Fit the row with glue and start laying the floor, cutting your final wall in at the end. The boards will be straight to the room, the skirtings will run all over the place but the floor will be true to the visual way you use the room.
 

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