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I've gotten two quotes to put in some Armstrong Laminate flooring in Yorkshire Walnut throughout my home. About 960 sq ft. in the living room, hallway and 4 bedrooms off of the hallway.
One installer told me I'd need transition pieces at the front door, in the living room where the floor would meet the tile in the kitchen, at the two bathroom doors and at the closet doors (they are sliding mirror doors with tracks mounted onto the floor.
The 2nd installer told me I'd need transition pieces at all of those areas, but also at each of the bedroom doors for expansion.
The 1st installer said I would not need transition pieces at the bedroom doors, because the flooring will run continously throughout the area and they'd leave room for expansion along the walls.
I'm confused. Which one is correct? I have several friends with laminate throughout their home (everywhere except the bathrooms) and they did not use transition pieces at the bedroom doors, but they installed it themselves, one of the Pergo brands.
Until the 2nd installer told me I'd need the transition piecs at the bedroom doors, it never even occured to me that the flooring would be broken up that way.
Do I really need these pieces at the bedroom doors or can I get along without them? I live in San Diego, CA and we're not known for extreme weather changes.
Thanks for any help/advice.
I'd pefer not to have the transition pieces at the bedroom doors. It will look much nicer without.
Doorways are a good place to provide for expansion, but it's probably not necessary. People like to run flooring parallel to the length of the room, and certainly in a hallway. Maybe the bedroom floors should be run a different direction for appearance's sake, and that's why the second installer wants to use transitions there. It's subjective. There should be enough expansion around the edges of the floor without adding transitions at every doorway. Armstrong's instructions only speak of transitions where necessary, which means the front door and anywhere there's a height matching issue. The second installer is probably erring on the side of caution. I'd discuss this with them and see what they say.
