Laminate flooring "expansion gap"

[Scoby_Beasley]

Okay, the rule books and instructions say 10-12mm gap for expansion, but what happens in a year like this when it must of rained three times on Saint Swithins day and everything is full of moisture. If you leave 12mm now, if we have a summer next year like '03 you'll end up 24mm from the wall !

There's got to be a more precise way of laying this stuff!! I'm only asking as I made the mistake of doing (if I say so myself !) an excellent job in a small bedroom and I've got home tonight to find 90 m2 of the stuff to do the rest of the house (barring wet rooms obviously).

Oh, by the way, yes I am still alive, just toooo busy trying to earn a wage to live !!
Hope all the old(ish) gang are still about.

 

[oilman]

Welcome back.

Hope all the old(ish) gang are still about.

Breezer's left to get loads-a-money, and very sadly Masona has given it up (but I hope he cahnges his mind) after an unnecessary torrent of abuse from someone who should have known better (and a lot better at that). You can read about it here

I'd be surprised if you had problems with large amounts of expansion on laminate flooring as it's not normal wood and so doesn't behave like it. Mine seems stable.

 

[big-all]

heeelllooo s b

leave the laminate in the room unwrapped for 2 weeks to
get acclimatiszed [or a similar temprature in a different room]
if possible although 4 or five days will account for 90% of
shrinkage or expansion
i leave 1mm per foot for expansion 14ft room 7mm each side
[3mm extra on top in a bathroom or kitchen]
if your going between rooms via a doorway leave a bit of room
for expansion under the door strip

good luck

big all

 

[TexMex]

very sadly Masona has given it up (but I hope he changes his mind) after an unnecessary torrent of abuse from someone who should have known better

I'm absolutely gutted. I'd noticed he hadn't posted for a while, but assumed he was off on holiday. Perhaps we should start a new top level thread expressing support for his invaluable contribution to the site. If we're lucky, he may be watching, and return.

On the subject of laminated flooring, following on from scoby_Beasley's logic. If your new laminate is already acclimatised to current atmospheric conditions and you have another floor already previously laid. Could you not look at the currently laid floor to see what the gap looks like at the moment. If it is now quite tight, then you could possibly lay the new flooring quite tight also? If the existing floor still has the same gap that you laid it with, perhaps the prevailing humidity is not as high as you thought.

 

[oilman]

Perhaps we should start a new top level thread expressing support for his invaluable contribution to the site.

I can understand wanting a rest from some of the tedium of the same simple questions, but Masona was NEVER offensive in his replies, and yet this was not the first time something unpleasant was posted. One was so bad the moderators took it off. Some of us might deserve the odd rebuke, but Masona never did.

If we're lucky, he may be watching, and return.

I certainly hope so.

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

Hope all the old(ish) gang are still about.

Breezer's left to get loads-a-money, and very sadly Masona has given it up (but I hope he changes his mind) after an unnecessary torrent of abuse from someone who should have known better (and a lot better at that). You can read about it here

I'd be surprised if you had problems with large amounts of expansion on laminate flooring as it's not normal wood and so doesn't behave like it. Mine seems stable.

breezer, masona. Come back ! I need your wit, wisdom and sensibility !!
(but I don't love you )
P.S. Thanks for the advice peeps, 90m2 is a bit much if you have to re-lay 'cos of excessive expansion gaps ! ( and whats this cork packing about ????)