Joining new floor to existing

[749s]

Hi

After a year of enjoying our house, I've decided to make some improvements.

The lounge and dining room are back to back, seperated by a half solid, half stud wall which I've removed.

I've now had a wood burner fitted into the old chimney void but I've got a question regarding flooring.

See this

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• 749s
• 5 Oct 2011
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Not a great picture.

However, the rear room is the dining room and this has 18mm solid oak flooring laid (howdens). I'd like to have this come through to the lounge too but it's been glued down.

In order to get the effect of one open plan room (rather than two rooms that have been joined) I really want the flooring to flow through seamlessly and not have a join between the two rooms. Therefore I need to lift some of the existing flooring but it's all been glued down and a chippie I was talking to yesterday reckoned if I started trying to lift it I would simply ruin the pieces I was intending on leaving.

Now I feel quite frustrated as I want to get going on this but am floored by this problem.

ANY thoughts/ideas/suggestions would be really good right now!! Thanks.

 

[big-all]

is it a cut square edge??
use a biscuit joiner and a row off biscuits assuming you have the correct expansion gap elsewhere
if not you will need a threashold strip and expansion gap