How to lay laminate flooring in the hallway: along or across?

Narrow Khrushchev hallways force the owners to use non-standard solutions when laying parquet boards or laminate. To visually expand the corridor, floor coverings are performed in a special way. Lay the laminate across.

How to lay laminate flooring in the corridor - along or across, is a sore question. People who buy an apartment in a new building or a secondary home are set to find out the most profitable options for the layout of the laminate. The floors in the hallway are subject to increased stress and have a high permeability.

This is what makes you “measure seven times”, so as not to be mistaken, to ideally and competently lay the laminate in the corridor near the front door. When placing the laminate, builders take into account various nuances, thinking about how best to move to the front door: along, across, a herringbone, diagonal. They begin laying the laminate from the openings of the rooms, windows, and the far wall adjacent to the corridor.

The elite entrance hall of the new building is slightly different from the entrance hall of the secondary housing. In "Khrushchev" it is especially narrow, forcing the owners to thoroughly treat the design decisions. The masters try on laying the laminate in the hallway along or across - how to do it right, they decide on site, checking up to 5-10 times, until they stop at the final version.

You can resort to the following flooring.

Sometimes it is more correct to lay the laminate along. The longitudinal design, especially with a selected pattern, allows you to mask errors, make the seams invisible, joint gaps, and lamps from above increase the space. Longitudinal layout will last longer. The laminate of a narrow corridor perceives one and a half times more load than a transverse board. The weight of a person's body is transferred to the longitudinal panel, does not break at the lock, the edges of the lamella, does not crumble the protective lacquer layer. Laying across is not the best option. At the same time, the foot presses on the lock from both sides, creating cracks in the attachment point.

The benefits of such styling can be felt in some cases.

1. If the corridor is narrow. With this method of laying, its width visually becomes larger. At the same time, the floor looks voluminous. The space comes to life, as it were.

2. This method is more profitable from the point of view of economy.

3. This way of laying the laminate is able to emphasize the structural pattern of the boards.

4. Laying the floor in this way reduces the load on the laminate board.

This installation method is used in small apartments with narrow hallways. The transverse arrangement visually reduces the length of the corridor, the whole room will look wider.

This way of laying the board visually lengthens the room a little, just like mirrors. This approach increases the length of the corridor. In this case, it is often necessary to join the laminate with tiles, threshold.

The gaps are closed with sealed decorative metal and PVC linings.

The types of a standard aluminum or copper nut neutralize the height difference between two coatings of different types of products: board - ceramics, marble - PVC tiles, parquet board - laminate.Fasteners, the location of the screw holes are hidden by different methods.

The existing methods of laying laminate panels are adjusted in place. These are the flaws of shifting the laminate to the side:

• left or right;

• defects near the wall;

• passages with holes through pipes;

• cables.

The best way to reduce laminate laying errors is to offset the board by ½ the length. The first row is placed with a cut of 30 cm on the panel, which lengthens the drawings. The second lamella is reduced by a third, no more than 3 sizes of the width of the board.

The trimmed panel is laid in the same way with the same offset, but not less than 1/3 of the length. The second row begins with a trimmed panel, the cut of which is 1/3 of the board. Laminate on the edges of the chamfers is laid with the selection of the pattern.

When forming floors, interiors, there are restrictions on the methods of laying laminated parquet boards.

Non-standard ways can change the appearance, enlarge the hallway, emphasize the design style.

1. Textured coatings, in-register embossing give a good hue.

2. The surfaces are slightly uneven, bumpy on the front side.

3. Adds sophistication to an accurate repeating pattern of wood on the lamellas. It continues from left to right, from right to left for the entire length of the lines and premises.

4. Chrome, gloss, stripes next to matte board coatings create light shades, increase the width of the panel.

5. The structure of surface treatment with a metal brush of the board highlights the lamella on the front side, hides the unevenness of the floor.

6. V / U bevels 2-sided, 4-sided, patterns with 3D effects add sophistication to the interior.

Artificial, daylight or white light highlights the joints, the texture of the lamellas, adds volume to the floor, increases the width and length of the corridor. Visually, the room becomes alive, gets a special charm. It is not for nothing that artists and designers from time immemorial have used wood, deep-embossed laminate on the floor, which is popularly called "living background".

How to install laminate flooring, see below.