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Starting in hallway almost perfect fit boards with doorjambs
I will be flooring all 3 bedrooms with Flooret’s Modin Signature LVP (9″ x 72″). I plan on running my boards longways down the hall and working forwards into the 3 bedrooms. The hallway from baseboard to baseboard measures 36 1/4″ and my cheat sheet for 4 planks measures 35 7/8″, leaving about 3/16″ of a gap on either side. I do plan on using 3/4″ quarter round at the baseboards.
First off, given that my walls/baseboards aren’t perfectly straight, which wall should I try to measure of for my mid-line straight line down the hallway?
Secondly, the seam is right off the baseboard, so installing the first plank in the rooms, would have the entire doorjamb covered by that first plank. As is with the doorjambs cut, it would leave a bit of a gap at the seam into the hallway (doorjamb 1 and 2 pics). I may have to try to cut into the 2×4 behind the doorjamb, about 5/8″ in order to slide the doorway plank more under the door casing. Which may still leave a small gap just in front of the casing.
Thirdly, I don’t think the door casings are straight with what my starting midline would be. So having a plank running down the length of the hallway straight, it appears it could leave a 1/4″ gap in front of the casing. How could I handle a gap there?
It almost fits so perfectly with the 4 planks, I would hate to have to shift everything half a plank to get it fit the door jambs and casings better.
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