Lay the first course of flooring along the wall that forms the inside of the l follow the wall keeping a gap of 1 4 inch between the flooring and the wall to allow for expansion of the flooring material and extend this course past the wall all the way to the opposite perpendicular wall.
How to run laminate flooring in a hallway.
I also understand i should run flooring parallel with the longest wall.
Proceed down the hallway until the one side is finished.
After installing the laminate into the hallway down one side you will need to know how to finish the last row of laminate in the hallway.
If you have a long prominent hallway you may choose to run the flooring parallel to its walls even if that means it will run parallel to the short walls in the living room.
The sight lines of the floor and walls match making the hallway appear longer and more.
Keep using the temporary boards to get the measurements as you proceed down the one side of the hallway.
I would like to know if i should just run the entire flooring from room to room or if i should separate it based on the rooms and have t moulding to transition from the bedrooms to the living space.
It really will help you out a ton if you go through my post on how to layout a laminate floor.
How to install laminate from one room into a hallway.
Think of hallway flooring for a good example.
It is common to see the laminate or wood flooring boards running with the direction of the longest walls in a room.
Another option could be identifying the main source of light in your space and run the flooring perpendicular to the light.
Laminate installation start here.
The most common is where laminate flooring is being installed in lets say a living room and flows into the hallway.
As a rule laminate flooring looks best when it runs in the same direction as the long walls in a hallway.
The length of the flooring board will more often than not run with the length of the room.
If you re open concept is a front door to back door home run the flooring straight from the front door to the back door.
If you have a width wise open concept run the flooring parallel to the longest walls.