Hi all,
I've got a floating engineered wood flooring in my hall way. I have since had a porch built to extend the size of the hall and therefore need to extend the existing flooring. The problem is that the joiner that installed the original flooring must have started on the wall where the front door was. So I now need to extend the flooring from the wrong side of the board, i.e. the tongue side rather than the normal groove side.
I want to try to avoid using a transition bar, as I don't think it would look very good in the position it is in. So I am looking for a way around this.
Should I cut off the tongue edge of both the existing floor and the first new board and then glue these together, so that the 2nd row of new boards can then lock in the correct way round (i.e. the grove side of the board will then be facing the space being extending into)?
Below are a couple of photos to hopefully show what I mean:
I've got a floating engineered wood flooring in my hall way. I have since had a porch built to extend the size of the hall and therefore need to extend the existing flooring. The problem is that the joiner that installed the original flooring must have started on the wall where the front door was. So I now need to extend the flooring from the wrong side of the board, i.e. the tongue side rather than the normal groove side.
I want to try to avoid using a transition bar, as I don't think it would look very good in the position it is in. So I am looking for a way around this.
Should I cut off the tongue edge of both the existing floor and the first new board and then glue these together, so that the 2nd row of new boards can then lock in the correct way round (i.e. the grove side of the board will then be facing the space being extending into)?
Below are a couple of photos to hopefully show what I mean:
