Has anyone layed wooden flooring in a curved apartment?

Question

i need to lay a floor for a friend, but the outside wall is curved and the inside walls are at different angles, like pizza slices, any advice would be great, i intend laying wood in all the rooms apart from the bathroom

i have done loads of floors, in my own house but it is easy when the walls are square and perpindicular to the dirction of the wood HAHA, yeah i have a plan i think i will have to work out the angles and maybe pick one wall to follow?

Answer 1

I'd find the point where you have the longest sightline and run the flooring along that line.

Answer 2

It seems to me that your biggest challenge is finding the right place to start so the lie of the boards is appropriate for every room, not to say that they should be the same in every room, but to look appropriate. It is difficult for me to imagine without see the appartment exactly how to approach the project. For instance if the flooring looks right at the entry to the home, if the pattern is carried through out, will the pattern fit every room. I am sure you have considered this problem and it very well may not be a problem at all. Then the only suggestion I would offer is to remove the base boards or coving, cut the pieces to as close to the proper anles as possible following the manufactures instructions for clearance, and replace the baseboards/coving. If the base/coving does not quite hide the ends to your satisfaction, you could use the approprate size quarter round to cover.

Good luck, this sounds like an interesting project.

Answer 3

This is a very complicated question for this forum.

If you are not an experienced installer, I suggest that you contact your local Home Depo and possibly attend one of their installation seminars. I'm not sure that even the usual seminars will cover such a complicated installation.

The complication arises when one must be sure that when starting from the center, that the fill pieces along the walls will not end up where some are large and opposties are tiny pieces. Every doorway must be considered so that the door jams are not too small fills.

You need to scale the floor and work it on paper. Too detailed to explain it here.

With a curved wall, you will need a band saw in order to make circular cuts.

Good luck.

Answer 4

With all due respect to you, and certainly to your first answer I have a couple suggestions.

I've been in the trades for a long time, and have installed thousands of sq. ft. of flooring among other things. I often use a small "tool" that might seem to be similar to a switch blade knife. It has a metal blade that slides on a pin through a plastic handle that accepts the blade being tucked back into it. It's pretty much like a "compass" one used in school.

You can duplicate this very simply with two pieces of wood. I've used 1x2 pine and/or 1/4 x 2 or whatever, Luan.

At one end I install a bolt/nut, centered, I round that end and use a wing nut on the bolt. It can be as long as 24 inches, but need not be. The purpose is to determine the angles at corners and butting edges of each consecutive piece of material. Once placed in the angled corner, I tighten the wing nut, and move that angle to the material laid out, then run a line to prep for cutting. It has worked every time, for me. Obviously measuring twice to cut once should be remembered.

I remove any cove base that might exist and subtract a 1/4 inch from the floor stock, then reinstall cove base over.

Steven Wolf

Answer 5

Sounds like raw wood. If that is the case, you should go to a home improvement store and get a wood cleaner product. (This is the stuff you use on wood cabinets or furniture, not on a deck!). Then you should wax it with floor wax. That will make it water resistant and shiny. It will also help it stay clean.

Answer 6

i would pull off the longest straightest wall, if the wood will look alright going that direction

Answer 7

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Answer 8

with the right tools anything is possible