Hardwood Floor Questions

G'day Mark, 6:1 ratio is asthetically pleasing, and when I laid the floor in our last home I used multiples of 6x the board used, ie; 80mm surface x 6 =240mm, 12x=480 18x=720mm etc also made it easier to complete the "L" as thats what we had as well 4.5 metres short side laid across, 9.2 metres laid traditional length ways.

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Originally Posted by Markw

Bruce
Am just about to lay pre-finished P&M brand T&G boards in an L shaped hall. One way or the other I have to lay boards across the hall ....

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Not being an expert, but you could run a floor joist at 45 degree angle at the bend in the hall. And then join the two sets of floorboards in a 45 degree pattern. Does that make sense? I Know what I am trying to explain, just not explaining it

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Originally Posted by namtrak

Not being an expert, but you could run a floor joist at 45 degree angle at the bend in the hall.

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Yeah sure, you can do either a straight mitre across the change of direction in the hall, you need to be fairly accurate though and get the mitres to line up precisely.

Or you can run a strip of flooring across and cut your boards up to that. Needs two rows of blocking under to pick up both edges of the angled board.

Thank guys
Unfortunately the timber is required to be laid at 90 degrees to the existing timber floor (across the length) and the original hall was laid length-ways on the longer leg. This continues in the same direction throughout the whole house.

Bruce:
From what I gather from your reply the 6:1 ratio would be a "repeating pattern" of every sixth board :confused:

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Mark, something along those lines, what I did was lay it down and play with the patterns until we were happy with the results, precutting to those dimensions made it simple.