Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Sep 04, 2018 1:25 pm We’ve just found out our 7 year old son has a severe allergy to dust mite, so up come the carpets! I’m actually delighted. It will be such a relief to finally get my son’s allergies under control. Also, I’m not the biggest fan of carpet so it’s a great excuse to splash out and jazz up our rather dull (but very cozy) 90’s brick and tile home. We’ve decided on engineered timber floorboards throughout, excluding wet areas. Now we just have to decide which direction to lay the boards. I’ve spoken to a few professionals (timber layers, builders, designers) and scoured google on the subject, however I’m getting conflicting advice. Originally we were set on laying the boards east west, parallel with the entry. I’m not really sure why. It just seemed logical, I guess because the boards would run parallel with our rather short hallway between dining area and bedrooms... However, a couple of common ‘rules’ I’ve noticed during my search is to: 1. lay floor in the same line as the main light source; 2. lay floor from front to back of house and 3. Lay parallel to the longest wall. Since reading this advice, I’m now thinking perhaps might be better to lay north south. The house is on a slab, so no joists to influence decision, just aesthetics. I would very much appreciate your advice/opinion. Re: Which direction to lay floating timber floors? 4Sep 05, 2018 1:57 pm TashPaul I would do it as you have it above - north south. Just my opinion! Thanks TashPaul, any particular reason? Assuming you've modelled the TB8, TB10, TB12, TB2 & J1 joists/LVLs there, it appears as per drawing to me. There maybe should be an additional J1 between TB10 and T12 if… 3 31842 Pls help! The black marks show where our outdoor entertaining area would be along side of house as we have an irregular backyard and want to make use of the side as… 0 4355 Thanks Simon, I guess I'm no concerned with the volume of the noise rather that dead and hollow sound and feel that is associated with floating floors. But I'm not sure… 3 6163 |