Hi,

IMHO, Its an easy job - go for it.
You can also buy stuff which is just as good as Junckers (again IMHO)
and a lot less expensive. (sorry, can't remember the name of the stuff
I bought - check out all your local flooring suppliers - especially
the ones where you are not paying for flashy showrooms).

These boards come with T&G on all 4 edges so there isn't much cutting
(only at the edges of the room where it should be hidden under the
skirting so quality doesn't matter much). In fact, there should only
be cutting for 2 edges of the room.
I'm assuming you will be nailing it to existing batens or joists. The
boards don't meet at the joists - the boards are random lengths so the
joints mostly miss the joists but as long as you make sure that 2
joints don't occur between the same joists in adjoining boards you
will be fine.

Also, the Junckers site has instructions.

go for it - and let us know how you get on.
(oh - and invest in some knee pads)

Alan.

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hi,

we are finally ready to do something about flooring in our house.

We are looking at the Junckers Oak Wideboard Classic (if people have
ideas for other suppliers, we'd be very interested to hear them).

We are wondering about doing the job ourselves (hence our posting
here). The only thing is that we want a beautiful finish and are
wondering about how skillfully we can install these floors ourselves.
Given their quality (and their cost -- ouch!!), we would rather pay a
professional, than try ourselves and ruin the job. Our main concern is
the joint at the ends of the boards (not the T&G sides), getting these
to have a good perfect fit. Is this something that we can reasonably
expect to do ourselves?

We have done a fair bit of work ourselves (plumbing, rewiring,...),
but are sometimes a bit apprehensive about works like this which are
more "finishing" works.

The opinions of people on this group about trying this ourselves would
be greatly appreciated.