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.......... in an angled hallway? I did the house in carpet years ago and now they want Coretec in the kitchen, dining room and down a hallway that has at least one angle change....... maybe two, I don't recall.
The long joints are one thing, then end joints......... do you connect them together with tape, then install as one long plank?
 
Your talking about taping in the end piece ( last piece in a row) against the wall , that is at an angle ... correct?
It’s a pain.
Someone made a pull bar years ago ,
that would pivot and you could easily tap angled rows together.
I usually just do one board at a time,
but I’ve gotten so I can put the end joint together first and lift and wiggle the length , and it snaps right in .
 
May not be as bad as I remembered, but yes about the angles...... some of them anyway.
With Laminates of the past, Pergo and Wilsonart, you can hot glue a wood scrap onto them. If that could be done with vinyl planks, you'd have a temporary tapping block adhered onto the plank. Probably a dangerous idea on Coretec:D
 
Here's the layout with a few measurements.
The living room is below the lower left (not in the image) and it would look nice walking into the kitchen/dining room area walking into the planks. (N/S direction)
This would make 10 feet of the hallway chopped up the short way................. hmm, decisions, decisions. :rolleyes:
Walking into the hall and towards the bedroom and office areas would look better right/left..... tho most visitors would never see that view.

OK, back to the angle issue. Look to the right side of the diagram. The arrow and measurement (11' 6") gives you a somewhat accurate perspective of the plank angles in the hallway.
East west might look better if viewed from the kitchen area.
Living room would look better in the N/S orientation....hmmmm.
Either way there would be angles to deal with when tapping them together. Everything from the right of the washer/dryer area has angled cuts. Bathroom looks like a nightmare.
 

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To make matters worse, the kitchen and bathroom areas have 3/8" plywood or particle board underlayment. That has to get pulled out. There is also a Pergo entry near the top of the dining room surrounded by carpet around 3 sides of it. To make it even more worser, when I installed the carpeting years ago, I ramped up the carpet height at the vinyl and Pergo transitions by using cement floor patch, so that has to be ground off.
Their house is gonna be a mess for a while. Wish I could think of another product for them that would be easier to fit in those angled areas............. like carpet.
...........or better yet, paint :D
 
You can always rotate lock in the angled last piece on a uniclic if need be but its pretty easy to lock the end joint in and tap together the long side on uniclic.
 
Does Coretec use the uniclic locking joint?

I just measured an apartment layout for a lady and mentioned the angled layout of this Coretec job. She told me someone makes a tapping tool for angles and they aren't very expensive.............. I looked on google and didn't see anything.
.....any of you guys heard of such a tool for tapping together end joints with angled cuts? I got my own designed half figured out. Tapping tool fits all angles............ OK, most angles. ;)
.......wanna buy one?
3 easy payments of $19.95 and free shipping. If you act now, I'll make one payment for ya. :D
 
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