How Should I Lay The Floor(direction).

pondman

Teetor,

Step away from the bar. You have had way too much to drink. I'll call you a cab.
Let's go home and sleep it off. Tommarrow is another day.

Teetorbilt

Goodbye pawned, oops, pond.

pondman

Teetor check your mail.............

I'm going nowhere, martha Vineyard is snowed in. The Mrs. wants to come to Florida. Thought we might catch up with each other and have a beer?

Teetorbilt

I'm not going anywhere, staying warm.

pondman

Saw you read some material that came your way. Hope all is OK big guy.

kesac

Run the floor in the room one way, and down the hall, the other if you would like. My living room is 30x24, and we ran the floor parrallel to the 30. The hall is also running the same direction, and is about 42" wide, but it looks just fine. That hall is not very long, because we took out most of that wall to give us another entry to the kitchen, which is now all bamboo too, and running parralell to the living room. It looks good enough to stop people in their tracks when the come in the house.
Play with it. If we had turned ours the other way, it would be about 50+x30, when you include the kitchen, so we are technically going parallel to the short wall, but it looks very good and even a little bit dramatic.

Teetorbilt

The human eye reacts the same. Most people know about clothes, horizontal stripes make you appear wider and vertical stripes make you look thinner. The same basic theory applies to your house.
Want to know the truth? Take some photos and trot them down to your local Interior DESIGNER, NOT decorator. Big difference. Most will give you a free opinion.
Mine tell me that 90 deg. intersections are bad, lengthwise down a narrow corridor is bad and anything that breaks the 'flow' is bad.
Go try a few and get back to us

toddy

Lay The Floor On A 45 Degree

Marco

Guess its a little late here but rule-of-thumb always lays the floor long way of the room. Thats in the Manual. The big room is more important than the hallway, that direction is your choice. If planned right, you can change direction at the hall without a T-mold.

Codewiz

In the end we decided not to run it down the hallway. We decided that we wanted carpet between the bedroom and bathrooms.

So we are laying it with the longest wall I appreciate all the help.

Teetorbilt

Marco, you are correct in the directional change but it is difficult to pull off as all of the expansion/contraction has to be allowed for at the far end of the hallway or a gap will occur at the intersection. Careful attention must be paid to the entryways to the hallway. Always glue the main room panels 3-4 out in front of the hallway to spread the load, the intersection MUST be glued as well.