Flooring Update - Part 4

The epic saga of the flooring continues. After tearing out the floor and putting down the underlayment, it's now time to actually start the floor! First we opened up multiple boxes of wood (always make sure to mix!) and created different piles with the various lengths we had (this is suppose to help us stagger the boards and lessen the cutting needed).

 

The next thing is to start laying the planks at the longest point on the wall. Make sure to use spacers!

 

You can see that we bough engineered hardwood. What this essentially means is we get the beauty of hardwood flooring with the tongue-and-groove installation of laminate.

 

After laying down the first row of wood to get a basis, we started to use a glue to secure the pieces together. We ran the glue along the edges that connect to the next piece, getting it within the grooves of the wood.

 

Then Mike would snap it into place and use the mallet to (gently) hammer it into place.

 

 

To make sure it would dry tightly together, Mike went the extra mile and used left over painters tape that we had at the seams of the boards.

Three rows down, a million to go!