Changing Direction With Engineered Hardwood

How to install wood flooring and change direction.

Changing direction with engineered hardwood. The direction in which you install hardwood flooring boards is dictated by several factors which we will cover in this segment. Factors such as visual aesthetics structural integrity and the installation method should all be considered when installing your new hardwood flooring. When entering the new area we have to establish another reference chalk line. That led to a few customers asking if we can re stain engineered wood floors.

Reversing or switching the direction may occur when the installation goes to other rooms and some areas may fall behind you. Not to worry the direction you choose depends on different factors that we will break down for you. The traditional way to run a hardwood floor whether you are working with a nailed down or floating format is to have the planks running. Much like the question about refinishing engineered wood floors there is no easy answer to this question.

While personal preference is a factor the direction in which you run hardwood flooring boards is governed by visual and structural guidelines. Let s start with the types of directions there are first. Yet another exception if you have solid wood floors not engineered on a pier and beam foundation then you don t have a lot of choice as far as which direction to run the flooring it would best be run perpendicular to the joists. In a previous blog we discussed refinishing engineered hardwood floors and how the thickness of the wood layer determines if they can be refinished.

We have mostly slab foundations in this area and with engineered floors you have more flexibility.