Click engineered floor questions

[Tim0912]

Hi, I have a room to do in Norske click engineered wood flooring and have been reading/viewing everything I can on how to lay it.

1) Most sources say to lay with the tongue side against the wall/skirting. But the tongue is about two cm, which will push it out significantly from the wall. Should I cut the tongue off? Or lay with the other side against the wall (as some tutorials say to do anyway)?
2) Most sources say to start "from the left corner.." Well, that baffles me! My room has four corners and if I stand in front of any of them they are the left corner!

 

[RrogerD]

I've no knowledge of the product itself but from your wording I would comment as:
1) it suggests tongue against the wall so that when you're knocking the next piece into place, you're not knocking the tongue and risking damaging it. If the tongue too large to hide under the skirting then yes, I'd trim it back as much as necessary.
2) presumably, the suggestion of 'left corner' is just to give a datum for the following instructions ie continue from left to right. In otherwords, if you started in the right corner then it'd say, continue right to left. It also I suspect, assumes that most people are right handed and so, you lay a piece then place your next piece holding it in your right hand and if necessary, knock into place using mallet and block or fixing tool, in your right hand.

 

[Tim0912]

Thanks Roger. It's a click together flooring so you don't knock it together, you knock it down to engage the click once you have slotted it together. So, no issue of damaging the tongue.

 

[endecotp]

It’s easier inserting the tongue into the groove, not trying to fit the groove around the tongue.

 

[Tim0912]

It’s easier inserting the tongue into the groove, not trying to fit the groove around the tongue.

Exactly! But if I do it that way then the tongue is against the wall and brings the board out way to far. I think I will have to cut the tongue off.

 

[endecotp]

I will have to cut the tongue off.

Yes!

Edit: measure the room, you will need to cut the last row of boards to fit. It doesn’t have to be perfectly symetrical, but do work it out so you don’t end up needing a tiny sliver.

 

[Tim0912]

Thanks @endecotp I have done the sums and started this morning with a cut board, and will finish with one about equal. If I'd left the first board full width then I would indeed have ended up with a very (too) thin last board. Job is progressing: