Almost told a buddy his whole flooring approach was backwards

My friend was laying vinyl plank in his kitchen and spent 2 hours measuring each row perfectly. I was biting my tongue so hard because I know from doing my own place that you just snap the first row tight to the wall and cut the last row to fit. He ended up with gaps at the baseboards anyway and had to redo half of it. Is there a method people swear by that actually wastes more time than it saves?

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bennett.noah16d ago

Yeah that "measure each row perfectly" thing is a trap. I've redone enough floors to know you just need the first row straight and everything else follows. Took me three tries on my first kitchen before I learned that lesson.

alice33616d ago

My brother ruined three rooms before he finally quit measuring every single board.