Laying out

[2scoops0406]

Wondering if perhaps WYL or of course any other of you fine (gender non specific) fellows could offer any guidelines as to laying out a floor.

The reason I ask this is I laid a wooden floor in our conservatory, and very nice it looks too. However, it does not run parallel to the wooden floor in the rest of the house. It's not really noticeable, one of those things that only when you've done it you know it's not quite right.

Problem was the conservatory is built very square, good builders. The rest of the house is not very square, flung up house.

So what are the rules of thumb, where do you take your reference point from, seems a bit aribtary. I suppose the answer is what looks aesetically pleasing, but some pointer would be useful.


Ta very much in advance.

 

[masona]

Normally if I can, I always carry on parallel from the house so it looks the same thoughout as the furnitures usually hide the gap you don't see on the other side of the room.

 

[SASHWIZARD]

run a string line through and line it up with existing floor, it will run out on extension walls but would not really notice.

 

[WoodYouLike]

So what are the rules of thumb, where do you take your reference point from, seems a bit aribtary. I suppose the answer is what looks aesetically pleasing, but some pointer would be useful.

Rule 1: go with the light in order not to create false shades when installing floorboards with bevelled edges.
Rule 2: go along with the longest length
Rule 3: treat every room separate
Rule 4: align the floor for an adjoining room with the floorboards in the first room (could mean nailing a little woodblock down to the underfloor first to keep things straight). Even when you install a thresholds (T-bar) it will look like the floorboards are installed continuously into the other room (bit of extra work, but worth it!)

Hope this helps

 

[2scoops0406]

So what are the rules of thumb, where do you take your reference point from, seems a bit aribtary. I suppose the answer is what looks aesetically pleasing, but some pointer would be useful.

Rule 1: go with the light in order not to create false shades when installing floorboards with bevelled edges.
Rule 2: go along with the longest length
Rule 3: treat every room separate
Rule 4: align the floor for an adjoining room with the floorboards in the first room (could mean nailing a little woodblock down to the underfloor first to keep things straight). Even when you install a thresholds (T-bar) it will look like the floorboards are installed continuously into the other room (bit of extra work, but worth it!)

Hope this helps

Thanks Woody (a little over familiar there perhaps!) some good guidelines. Rule 2 I couldn't really apply because then the floor that I laid would have run perpendicular to the existing laminate, so I had(?) to choose the shorter edge as a starting point, this is why the floor is not exactly parallel to the exisitng floor, as the new conservatory is not exactly square with the rest of the house. The difference is really quite slight, it's just one of those things, when you know it's there you always see it, no-one else has commented so they are either being polite (unlikely with my friends) or it's not noticable.

Thanks again for the advice, I'll bear it in mind for next time