laying real wood flooring

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I'm planning on laying a real wood floor in my dining room and into the kitchen. In the dining room I can leave an expansion gap around the edge of the room, but when it comes to the kitchen I am only covering the floor upto the kitchen units. This will obviously mean that the 'expansion gap' will be around 500mm. Will this allow the new boards to separate?
I am planning on gluing the joints, but it will be a floating floor. Hope all this makes sense.
 
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You're planning to it the correct way, install to just underneath the kick-boards. Don't worry about the extra width of the expansion gap there, the floor won't easily move because of that.
 
feedme - yep, as per WYL's post ... take the kitchen unit kick-plates off, floor just beyond them, reduce the height of the kick-plates (saw) by the thickness of the new floor, refix the kickplates.

What are you going to do below appliances? If these are fitted/integrated consider fitting a ply sheet 'spacer', of the same thickness as the flooring, below them so they are at floor level - this will aid pulling them out for maintenance, etc. otherwise you may have a 'step' which might prevent their removal.
 

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