Hello,
I've recently got several flooring samples sent to me. The floor which I like the most is solid oak 120mm width x 18mm thickness. It is of click installation type.
But I noticed the following - if I join 2 planks together there is no "click" and the join is not tight. Otherwise, there is about 0.5mm play in it. This is completely different to laminate or engineered oak "click" joins which are very solid, don't allow any play at all and produce prominent "click" when joined. I made 2 photos to illustrate this - one with visible gas of about 0.5 mm between 2 pieces and the second one without gap (see attached pics).
The question is - is it OK or is it completely wrong? Is it actually an expansion gap? I though that floating floors should have expansion gaps only at floor edges but not between the planks.
Gap of 0.5 mm (planks are pulled apart)
No gap (planks are pushed to each other)
I've recently got several flooring samples sent to me. The floor which I like the most is solid oak 120mm width x 18mm thickness. It is of click installation type.
But I noticed the following - if I join 2 planks together there is no "click" and the join is not tight. Otherwise, there is about 0.5mm play in it. This is completely different to laminate or engineered oak "click" joins which are very solid, don't allow any play at all and produce prominent "click" when joined. I made 2 photos to illustrate this - one with visible gas of about 0.5 mm between 2 pieces and the second one without gap (see attached pics).
The question is - is it OK or is it completely wrong? Is it actually an expansion gap? I though that floating floors should have expansion gaps only at floor edges but not between the planks.
Gap of 0.5 mm (planks are pulled apart)
No gap (planks are pushed to each other)