On Oct 16, 12:45*pm, Doug Houseman wrote:
"Artemus" wrote:
"Bowsider" wrote:

I am putting down a floor in a C shaped corridor. The landing off the top of
the
stairs is approximately 1.5m wide and 5m long - the stairs lands roughly in
the
middle. There are two corridors running off each end of the landing at 90
degrees,
these are also about 4m long and around 1m wide. What do people think is the
best orientation for the boards? Thanks in advance.


My choice would depend on the length of the flooring. If it were say 1
meter wide and a single board would cover the hallway, I would go
against the convention and run it across the two sides of the "C" and
then run it the long dimension in front of the stairs. It would be
boring, but it would have fewer joints and be fairly quick to install.

That's ignoring wood movement. Doing it that way you're guaranteed to
get more and larger gaps between boards as the wood moves with the
season.

I'm also not sure that cutting every board and running the boards
across the width of the hallway would work for other reasons. When
you buy wood strip flooring the bundles are of assorted lengths.
They're not all 40"+ long. You could specify that when you order them
(or make them), but you'd be paying out the nose (or sucking down way
more time then any potential time savings in laying them AND paying
out the nose).

If someone is going to go to all of that effort, they certainly should
dress up the hallway with feature strips, etc. Not sure if that's
what the OP has in mind for his time and money.

R