Hardwood Floor Questions

[E. maculata]

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.

[namtrak]

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 ....

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

[ThePope]

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

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.

[Markw]

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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[E. maculata]

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.