Even with proper connections.
How to stagger engineered hardwood flooring.
It s important to select the right kind and amount of flooring before you prepare the subfloor.
Today s wood flooring products have tongue and groove construction or click lock fasteners that hold the planks of wood together.
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A random pattern can be hard to achieve when all the planks are the same length but you can do it using offcuts from previous rows to start new rows.
One way to do this is to maintain a minimum distance between adjacent end joints of at least 6 inches.
How to stagger floating floors.
The trick to properly laying your wood flooring is to stagger the seams so they appear random.
Engineered hardwood floors are a cost efficient way of getting the warm beautiful look of hardwood floors without the price of actual hardwood.
Adding wood floor to your home gives it an instant facelift making it appear classic and more expensive.
A laminate flooring stagger pattern is ideally random with spacing between end joints between 6 and 10 inches depending on the plank width.
But aesthetics matter and that means you should stagger the joints while laying out your flooring.
How you arrange these planks in size is up to you and the result has little effect on the functionality of the floor.