James and Kristin Whitt’s Corner

Living Room Laminate Re-Flooring

Kristin and I did really good on the living room floor. Before we went to bed we had about 1/3 of the floor done. The next day we actually finished it all except for about 3 rows.  That’s when it happened.  We took a moment to look at the entire floor and then I noticed that something was wrong on the left hand side of the fireplace.  We had noticed earlier that the right side wall was closer than we remembered, but didn’t think about it too much.  Well, while we were laying the laminate the night before, we were only putting spacers against the left wall and not the right wall where we finished each row.  Sometime overnight or when we were working, the laminate shifted to the right on us.  We ended up having over 2 inch gaps on the left side.  In the end, we ended up pulling up most of the rows and then repositioning the floor, and then laying it down again, this time including more spacers on both sides.  I ended up cutting up what was left of a 2×4 that we were throwing out and using it as additional spacers.  We ran out of time before we could finish the last three rows though.