Hardwood Layout

Mike Costello

Im just looking for some input here. Im almost finished with a 2700' hardwood job here in a new house. Its 2 1/4 inch oak.

The house was framed poorly so just about every wall is out of whack.

I found my own square and snapped a line for the main living area and kitchen. Off the kitchen in the front of the house is a dining area that is connected to the kitchen through a doorway. On one side of that room is a 6 foot doorway that butts up to ceramic tile layed on a diagonal ,that is the main entry.

If i shoot a line off the kitchen into the dining room it will cause the wood to be off on the tile by damn near 2 inches. If i follow the tile, wich is level with the wood and will have a soft grout joint as a transition ,the room will be skewed 2 inches off the kitchen

Any thoughts or ideas or does this make no sense to anyone?

ron schenker

A pic would help, but if I'm understanding correctly, I think the only option is to shoot your line straight with the kitchen, then install a wood threshold at the tile to hide the 2" variance. This might take your eye off the difference in the angle. BTW 2" is huge that's almost a whole plank width

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Big Dave

Just lay the whole floor diagonally. You'll never line up with anything any no one will notice it being out of square.

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Mike Costello

Problem is, there a three rooms already installed that meet flush to the tile, the customer wont accept a threshold.A similar idea though may be to get some 4 inch pre finished oak to install at the tile so im not going from a full plank to a sliver . Sucky part is Id have to do all three others

Lol and laying diagonally would be sweet had I not already installed about 2000 ft straight

Demal

Could you draw up a floor plan?

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Mike Costello

I totally could.

Now could I figure out how to get it on the computer?......

I can install the hell out of hardwood,lol.

PrecisionFloors

How about talking the ho into a border for the dining room? Maybe something a little large that will detract from the problem. Or you could still lay just the dining room on a diagonal, just put a header in the other doorway.

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Mike Costello

I think I may have them talked into a border of some walnut that I have in my warehouse. The only cost the are gonna have to absorb is the compass medallion in the center of the room.

Oh, that and the want me to do the oak on a diagonal inside the border,lol

PrecisionFloors

I was gonna say, if you could do the border on a diagonal it would help even more...sounds like there will be so much going on that you shouldn't notice the out of squareness by the time its all said and done. Good luck. Take us some pics.

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Mike Costello

I think the framers were drunk when they built this house. I made th 6-5-4 box in this grand hallway upstairs( 15x19) and found two walls to be almost two inches off. Im just gonna split the difference up there but wholly crap