It may depend on where the stagger will take place.
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Laminate flooring manufacturers require their floors to be staggered anywhere from 6 to 12 inches or more.
Most hardwood floors consist of many individual planks or boards measuring differing lengths but having the same width.
But aesthetics matter and that means you should stagger the joints while laying out your flooring.
This can lead to eye catching and not in a good way weird joint patterns.
Follow these guidelines on solid strip and plank flooring installation.
Get this wrong and your floor will look like an amateur installed it.
One way to do this is to maintain a minimum distance between adjacent end joints of at least 6 inches.
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Likewise there s no particular specification for laminate floor staggering.
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Racking a laminate floor is a little more difficult than racking a hardwood floor because laminate planks are all the same length whereas hardwood boards tend to come in different lengths.
The uniformity of the planks makes it more difficult to create a truly random stagger pattern which is one with no discernible spacing patterns between the end joints.
The fail to stagger is most often seen in halls where the installer cut all of the boards the same length from wall to wall.
How you arrange these planks in size is up to you and the result has little effect on the functionality of the floor.
The national wood flooring association recommends maintaining randomness when staggering floor planks.
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Considering the most cases the stagger ranges from 6 to 12.
Vinyl flooring planks are all the same length unlike random length hardwood planks.
Another way is to avoid regular stagger patterns such as steps or lightning and h patterns.
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The staggering requirement varies according to manufacturer recommendation.