Help near putting down laminate flooring? We just bought our laminate flooring, and I am wanting to know...
We just bought our laminate flooring, and I am wanting to know what wall should we start on, our living room have the open concept to the dinning room, should we start on the double windowpane wall which is the outside wall, which faces the dinning room, or should we start on one of the inside walls?
We have a significant open "doorway" between our living room and dining room - I don`t know it's similar to what you have. I started at that doorway to ensure that it would be straight. If you start at a wall and work your bearing across, any slight variation would be expounded as you work and would be really noticeable by the time you hit the slit between the living room and dining room. What you may want to do is start in the middle, ensure your first row is straight "beside the room" and ensure it stays straight by nailing some shaving pieces of wood to your subfloor to set your first row against. Work your way to the wall, afterwards pull up the fragment and work the other way. That be another way I did it for another room.
You start on the longest consecutive wall that doesn't own a break. In the farthest corner and work your style out.
Make sure that you lay the flooring down and look at it laying surrounded by both directions because when you start you can't go backbone!
Answers: The longest continuous wall is probably the best place to start. Remember to put 1/4" spacers against the wall, and also snap a chalk file for the first row because you can't count on your walls being straight.