Stagger Wood Floor Layout Patterns

The importance of a flooring stagger pattern racking the floor to create a random stagger pattern serves two purposes.

Stagger wood floor layout patterns. While there are no steadfast rules as to how you should stagger your laminate flooring it is best to be aware that you should be aiming to lay your floor in an irregular pattern with your stagger length to be in the region of 6 12 inches. One that is aesthetic and the other structural. Get this wrong and your floor will look like an amateur installed it. Save the wood plank remnant.

In terms of aesthetics staggering the end joints avoids creating lines that run perpendicular to the direction of the floor. To achieve a herringbone pattern lay hardwood floor strips in a diagonal zigzag plan that looks like twilled fabric. This can lead to eye catching and not in a good way weird joint patterns. The national wood flooring association recommends a 6 inch stagger pattern for strip flooring and an even greater separation up to 10 inches for 5 inch wood planks and laminate planks.

Lay out three to four rows at time on the floor starting each row with a different length plank. Both are equally important. Choose your wood planks in a pattern such as going from right to left on the stacks of wood you made. How you arrange these planks in size is up to you and the result has little effect on the functionality of the floor.

Stagger for aesthetics most hardwood floors consist of many individual planks or boards measuring differing lengths but having the same width. Each plank mill reclaimed wood wall pack will include wood pieces in varying increments of 1 foot 2 feet 3 feet and 4 feet long unless you order our herringbone pattern pack in which all pieces are cut to the same length. Cut the final piece of wood in the row to fit using a table saw.