Getting ready to do some more hardwood floor install in my house and have run into a couple questions I am trying to find the best answer to. Luckily I am more organized than this rambling post may indicate.
Joists run top to bottom so flooring will run left/right. This entire area will get the same flooring. Using 4" Brazillain Cherry/jatoba so very hard and strong. I've installed this same flooring before so familiar with the product.
Front door is at top left, and it appears to get the correct spacing at the door I will need to start there as I need to tuck the floor under the frame a bit there and I don't think there is room to clear the tongue on the last board and get a good fit with the frame.
At the closet I can use a spline and change the direction I am laying the floor so no issues there. I plan to measure and adjust the first board at the front door to make sure I don't end up with a sliver of a board at the carpet junction (Green) directly across from the door.
This is where we get the issues. There is a door at the top of the stairs with a bull nose piece (blue) that will go at the top of the stair. The wife wants a border (red) consisting of two boards running top/bottom between the entry and the dining room to give some separation between the two areas. There is no way to match the exact distance between the gooved bull nose on one side and the tongue or groove flooring at the border with the flooring as is.
So I have two thoughts and if someone has a third, I am all ears.
One is to use the tongue/groove connection at the border between the entry and dining area and butt joint at the bullnose above the stairs. That joint will be in the doorway and if I am afraid of stability I can put a piece of flooring behind it running the same direction and butt joint against that. The joint will be at least partially hidden by the door.
The other is to cut a tongue myself on the last boards at the bullnose so the tongues are at the right place. I am afraid of the precision needed for this and worry that it will look worse than a butt joint and if it isn't precise enough not give me any more stability there than a butt joint anyway.
So would you do a butt joint at the bull nose, cut tongues at the right place to fit the bull nose, or go a third way I have not considered?
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
Joists run top to bottom so flooring will run left/right. This entire area will get the same flooring. Using 4" Brazillain Cherry/jatoba so very hard and strong. I've installed this same flooring before so familiar with the product.
Front door is at top left, and it appears to get the correct spacing at the door I will need to start there as I need to tuck the floor under the frame a bit there and I don't think there is room to clear the tongue on the last board and get a good fit with the frame.
At the closet I can use a spline and change the direction I am laying the floor so no issues there. I plan to measure and adjust the first board at the front door to make sure I don't end up with a sliver of a board at the carpet junction (Green) directly across from the door.
This is where we get the issues. There is a door at the top of the stairs with a bull nose piece (blue) that will go at the top of the stair. The wife wants a border (red) consisting of two boards running top/bottom between the entry and the dining room to give some separation between the two areas. There is no way to match the exact distance between the gooved bull nose on one side and the tongue or groove flooring at the border with the flooring as is.
So I have two thoughts and if someone has a third, I am all ears.
One is to use the tongue/groove connection at the border between the entry and dining area and butt joint at the bullnose above the stairs. That joint will be in the doorway and if I am afraid of stability I can put a piece of flooring behind it running the same direction and butt joint against that. The joint will be at least partially hidden by the door.
The other is to cut a tongue myself on the last boards at the bullnose so the tongues are at the right place. I am afraid of the precision needed for this and worry that it will look worse than a butt joint and if it isn't precise enough not give me any more stability there than a butt joint anyway.
So would you do a butt joint at the bull nose, cut tongues at the right place to fit the bull nose, or go a third way I have not considered?
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.