Engineered wood flooring

[dazlight]

T&G is the best locking system imo. No creaking which you can get with some click woods.
You need to glue each side and use ratchet clamps to hold it all together while the glue sets.
Get a good underlay. We use Timbermate excel.

 

[DaG56]

I forgot to update this thread end of last year after I'd bought and fitted the flooring.

I fully glued it using a quality PVA and put fibre boards underneath. It looks and feels fantastic, not a creak anywhere. Unlike the click lock I have in another room that gives off the odd noise. I was a bit concerned about the colour variations in the wood but with it all down it looks fine.

But what surprised me was just how difficult it was to fit. I thought it would simply push together as it's just a tongue and groove. But no it was far harder than click lock. I couldn't just push it together or hit it with a mallet and block it kept coming apart at one end, as I tapped it together.

I remembered this thread and bought a flooring ratchet strap with plates on each end to hook over the planks. That worked but one wasn't enough. I got another so I could leave one holding one end in position while I worked down the plank with the other. The planks being 2,m long I think must have created a lot of friction making them hard to join. They were a very tight fit.

So anybody attempting this type of flooring get the straps, at least two otherwise forget about it. Thanks for the advice I received off everyone it was helpful and appreciated.

 

[aveatry]

My planks were random sizes from 1.2m down to 400mm so maybe thats why I didn't need straps but I did use tight wedges at the perimeter until the glue had set.
I also had a big range of shade planks but as I was going from a lounge to a hallway to a dining room I put all the darker ones to one side to use In the dining room as that was the look I was after in there.