To anyone that would be kind enough to help!...
I've been attempting and subsequently failing to lay a solid pine floor today and I'm at a slight loss.
It's going on to a concrete floor so it has the appropriate damp proof membrane down and I'm using the sticky back underlay stuff.
However, the problem is that unsurprisingly, the planks don't divide perfectly to the width of the room they are going into so I'm having to make some cuts down the length of the planks. When I do this, the cut length then bows into a banana, therefore screwing up the joint down the length of the plank. As this is the first row, it's then going to have a knock on effect right from the start across the whole room.
Is this just a pitfall of using pine flooring? Anyone have any suggestions or advice on where I might be going wrong?
The floorboards were bought 2 months ago and have been sitting upstairs so plenty of time to acclimatise or does the fact that there being installed downstairs make a difference here?...
Any help/advice would be most gratefully received!
I've been attempting and subsequently failing to lay a solid pine floor today and I'm at a slight loss.
It's going on to a concrete floor so it has the appropriate damp proof membrane down and I'm using the sticky back underlay stuff.
However, the problem is that unsurprisingly, the planks don't divide perfectly to the width of the room they are going into so I'm having to make some cuts down the length of the planks. When I do this, the cut length then bows into a banana, therefore screwing up the joint down the length of the plank. As this is the first row, it's then going to have a knock on effect right from the start across the whole room.
Is this just a pitfall of using pine flooring? Anyone have any suggestions or advice on where I might be going wrong?
The floorboards were bought 2 months ago and have been sitting upstairs so plenty of time to acclimatise or does the fact that there being installed downstairs make a difference here?...
Any help/advice would be most gratefully received!
