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Default Laying laminate floor throughout house -- multiple startingpoints?

On Aug 12, 6:39 pm, Toffee Monday wrote:
Alex wrote:
Hi...


We're about to lay laminate floating flooring throughout our house,
but given we'll be doing almost every room (except bathrooms), there's
no way we'll be able to have a single starting point. Is it
recommended to start a new row in each room then use a transition
piece at the door where the floors meet (for example hallway and
bedroom or kitchen and living room) or is there anyway to have the
floors move seamlessly throughout the house? I'm not sure what the
standard process is for this.


Thanks --

I am no expert by any means. I have installed laminate about 5 times
so far.
One way to keep the cutting to a minimum is to block off the area you
want to cover into
rectangles using the room dividers. Then lay each rectangle
individually. My first job was
about 600 square feet with a long hallway and shaped like an L TI was
using Pergo
which required clamping and gluing. I had several small but noticeable
gaps. The next job
after partitioning did not have any gaps.
Richard