Flooring - Fitted floors (cut-in floors)

• Introduction
• Flooring expansion joints
• Laying floors - End-matched flooring
• Laying floors - Butt joints
• Floor nailing

Flooring expansion joints

For continuous floor widths over 6 metres, measured at right angles to flooring, intermediate expansion joints are required. This is in addition to the perimeter gaps.

This joint can be:

• a single 10 mm wide gap, under a wall or across a hallway and the like
  or
• smaller gaps with closer spacings to give an equivalent space, for example, 1 mm gaps at 1 metre spacing or loose cramping.