I measured up a fun job yesterday

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I googled the location of the home and use their scale to approximately measure the roof line of the house and it appeared to be 40 by 50. From the 2D viewpoint it appeared to be a ranch style design.
Well arriving on the site, nope it's a log home.
I met the new owners there and proceeded to start measuring. They planned to do the large room and possibly the kitchen in cortec and the bedroom on the left hand side of the drawing is the bedroom which will probably have carpeting measure for it.
There's also a 22 ft x 38 ft loft area upstairs..... up them funky stairs.
The homeowner was thinking they needed to put cortec in the loft area also. From the ceiling downstairs I could tell that the upstairs is tongue and groove 2x4 or 2x6 material and would need to be covered with half inch plywood if they decided to go that route so the upstairs may remain carpet, who knows.
Anyway I used my laser to measure the downstairs and this is the drawing I came up with. The living room dining room and kitchen are All one large open area. I'm not going to be installing any material on this job it's way way too big for me. After the carpets removed and it's determined that the floor can be made flat enough for cortec, I'm curious how you would start this job mainly because of the fireplace.
Would it be best to start this job like I have shown in my sketch, by starting on the left by the tile entryway? By the time you got to the fireplace, you could fit each plank and tap them under the stone..... It probably needs to be undercut because I can't begin to imagine fitting something tight enough against such an irregular surface.
The second option would be starting on the long outside wall, upper right of the drawing.
The fireplace is about 8 and 1/2 ft both directions. Since the cortex ideally installs, left to right, in this scenario, you would have to fit the fireplace first and sort of work backwards until you got eight and a half feet out from the wall.
A penny for your thoughts.... Maybe a ruble I haven't checked the conversion rate lately.

 

[Floorist]

At least the walls are finished. I did one trimming to the logs.

 

[highup]

The upstairs has traditionally finished sheetrock walls and the one wall you see behind the stairs is a finished wall. Everything else is an authentic log home however on this one, the lowest log sits on top of a plate of some sort, possibly a 2x10. That should allow for some quarter round or even some one by one square stock to trim out the logs with.

 

[C.J.]

I’d start on the exterior wall from the fireplace. A lot of floating floors lay left to right, I would lay right to left until I was past the fireplace then continue on the way the floor is normally supposed to be laid. Much easier to start off a fireplace than to finish at a fireplace. This gives you the option of scribing to or undercutting and slipping under. Both ways will be much easier starting at the fireplace.

 

[highup]

I forgot to add in a couple pictures of the fireplace. It's one lumpy bumpy sob.
My job was to measure this place up I'm just going to offer some advice in case there's any that's needed. I love stealing ideas from other people and making it appear to be my own ideas. That's kind of what I was thinking anyway, but I was just looking for some backup. The job has has a few difficult areas, especially the kitchen and that set of stairs to go around but there's a lot of gravy out in the middle of that room to offset everything else.

 

[Floorist]

And I thought carpet was bad in a mess like that.

 

[C.J.]

Yeah, that’s a scribe to fireplace. Much easier to scribe and rescribe if necessary when it’s a starting board. If it’s an ending board and you miss the scribe you’re grabbing another board to do it again.

 

[Tile Tom]

Pain in the ass but results are worth it!!