I am currently choosing the flooring for the downstairs of our house. We are going to go with brushed and oiled engineered wood.
Thanks to WoodYouLike, I know about the 'dangers' of cheap random length offers where you end up with too many short lengths in the pack, and initially based on that I was going to choose a fixed length product.
However, having given thought to how flooring is laid, I now appreciate that this is usually done in a random style. I am therefore now thinking that it is not worth paying a premium for fixed length flooring as it will just end up getting chopped up into random lengths anyway!
Based on this I was thinking that we might as well go with a random length product, assuming that the mix contained plenty of long lengths.
However I am held back by a further consideration specific to us, which is the shape of the space; it's not just one square / rectangular room. As mentioned above, the floor is to be laid throughout the downstairs of the house. It is an extended 30s semi: we have an entrance hall about 2m wide at the entrance, reducing to just over 1m next to the stairs. The hall opens to the right onto a lounge roughly 4m x 5m and also straight ahead onto a large open plan room at the back of the house. This open plan room is over 9m wide although most of the width is cut short by a kitchen of two parallel runs of units with a 1200mm passageway between the runs of units. Given the wide span of the open plan room at the rear (the boards will be running the width of the room) would I maybe be better off with fixed lengths to ensure we have plenty of long boards for this long span?
Any thoughts most gratefully appreciated!
Thanks to WoodYouLike, I know about the 'dangers' of cheap random length offers where you end up with too many short lengths in the pack, and initially based on that I was going to choose a fixed length product.
However, having given thought to how flooring is laid, I now appreciate that this is usually done in a random style. I am therefore now thinking that it is not worth paying a premium for fixed length flooring as it will just end up getting chopped up into random lengths anyway!
Based on this I was thinking that we might as well go with a random length product, assuming that the mix contained plenty of long lengths.
However I am held back by a further consideration specific to us, which is the shape of the space; it's not just one square / rectangular room. As mentioned above, the floor is to be laid throughout the downstairs of the house. It is an extended 30s semi: we have an entrance hall about 2m wide at the entrance, reducing to just over 1m next to the stairs. The hall opens to the right onto a lounge roughly 4m x 5m and also straight ahead onto a large open plan room at the back of the house. This open plan room is over 9m wide although most of the width is cut short by a kitchen of two parallel runs of units with a 1200mm passageway between the runs of units. Given the wide span of the open plan room at the rear (the boards will be running the width of the room) would I maybe be better off with fixed lengths to ensure we have plenty of long boards for this long span?
Any thoughts most gratefully appreciated!