The instructions are quite unclear and do not say which direction to start from, but if you look at other floors, it always seems to start from the left.
But it feels strange to me considering the tongue and groove; you want to lay the next board "on" the one that is already installed, right?
My boards have similar tongue and groove on the top/left and right/bottom, so if I start from the left, I have to slide the next board under either the short side or the long side of the previous one.
Do you follow?
Should this be installed from the right instead?
In the image on page 6, it seems to be laid from the right, but there is nothing about the order in the text as far as I can see.
SPAANDEX K-GOLV and SPAANDEX UNIPAN K-GOLV are laid in a bond with at least 300 mm displacement and across the installed joists/beams with the smooth side up, i.e. the marked side, and with the short ends joined on the joists/beams. Joints between beams (joining between joists) may only occur in general living areas. The floorboards are laid with a center distance of max. 600 mm between joists/beams and should preferably cover at least two joist/beam spans. The free edges of the floorboards against walls and openings must be supported by laths.
In the picture on page 6, it seems to be laid from the right, but it doesn't say anything about the order in the text as far as I can see.
Thank you for also looking. So it could be that you lay from the right? I thought it was some sort of standard to lay from the left (it would fit best in my room since most of the difficult pipe penetrations are in that corner).
Got this answer:
When you start the installation of Novopan floor, do it from the left side with the long side tongue forward, and tongue forward on the right short side of the panel. In this way, you can apply the glue to the lying panel in one operation.
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When you start the installation of Novopan flooring, do it from the left with the long side tongue forward and the tongue forward on the right short side of the panel. You can apply the glue in one operation to the lying panel.
Not sure if that made it any clearer. If I look at the panel from above, it can have the "tongue" either up/right or down/left.
Seems reasonable that the two sides that cannot be glued from above should be in the corner you start with. So, according to the 2nd point above (which for me means starting from the right - I don't think of it as laying the boards in front of me - instead, I have the old floor in demand - breaking it up from the far end as I go, and building the floor towards myself).
According to the first image, it is the top and right sides that should be in the starting corner?
In other words, press the board against the wall by the radiator and place it furthest to the right in the image (and I guess you remove the tongue against the wall).
