Tips for joining lamninate floor

[DanGB]

Hello all,

Previous done a room with laminate flooring, and now doing the adjoining hallway in exactly the same laminate.

Here is the edge:

-Its a straight edge that has been cut on the laminate.
-That piece of laminate has the other edges covered by skirting boards/architraves etc, so it will be pretty impossible to replace with a difference piece now without a lot of work.
-I'm trying to avoid a threshold bar for the bump and the colour difference. (You can get colour matched ones for this Wickes laminate type but it looks quite different).

Any tips here, should I just but them up and lives with the slight difference in grain?
Should I leave small gap and fill with grey silicone or something?

Any other suggestions?

Many thanks.

 

[Doggit]

Sorry, but as you've cut the board already, you can't take it through to the other side, so a door bar is the only solution. If you butt them together, it'll prove a weak point and eventually crack and splinter, and if you leave a gap and use grey silicone, then you'll need to redo it every so often - but can't say how often at this stage.

At least you've set the join in the right place, unlike a lot of fitters, so well done for that.

 

[DanGB]

Thanks for the input. Very useful!

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Plus you've set the stuff under the skirting boards instead of using those horrible scotia fillets so kudos to you
Think you're going to be stuck with a threshold bump of some sort- Eurocell do an H section PVC extrusion that might help, it is fairly flat