Reset – try again

Before going to bed last night I took a good look at the floor I’d just laid in bedroom one and realised that it was awful. There were a couple of sheets in the centre of the floor that were hardly connected to their neighbour at all and moved as you walked over them. And it wasn’t down to the product. I was the one who was at fault.

By the time I’d got to the last few rows yesterday I realised that my original technique was at fault and I’d been trying too hard to get the sheets to connect. The long edges are key and you don’t have to force them together. All you have to do is gently angle up the back edge of the sheet you’re connecting to the one in the row above that’s already down and gently push its leading edge forward. Then it clicks in.

And I was unfair. Sure, this product doesn’t clip one sheet to the next but if you do as I’ve said above, when both sheets are lying flat they wedge tightly together. The end joints are a bit more problematic but by slightly raising the end of the sheet to the left that you’ve previously laid and aligning it with the one you’re now laying they push together to get a nice joint, not always completely but always enough for a good appearance.

So I resolved last night to take the whole floor up this morning and re-lay it. That’s the problem with being a perfectionist, but it was well worth it because with the sheets already cut to the correct lengths it only took just over an hour to redo the whole job. And now although it may not be 100%, it’s pretty close, as the pictures show. And more to the point, I’m happy 😉

I’ve decided that I shall try and go as far as I can with the bedroom at the expense of the shutters. I had to take a decision one way or the other and that’s what I’ve decided so today I’ll press on and get as much plinth fitted as I can before moving on to the Ikea fitted unit.