Third Bedroom Floor

It took me a little over a week, but I am finally done with the floor installation in the third bedroom. I started in the hallway so that I could make a seamless transition from the living room floor. I had to first cut out a few boards in the living room and then use longer leftover boards to reach into the hallway so that I could get all the boards to line up.

The new flooring is by a different manufacturer (Ming Dynasty from iFloor, it's also half the cost of the original Teragren), and it's a different size (it's still 1/2" thick, but it's 5.125" wide instead of 3.5" wide, plus the tongue and groove isn't compatible with the original Teragren floor). I decided to glue the floorboards together rather than nail them down this time. The new floor will be a floating floor. 

I first had to remove the old floor boards in the hallway and then install 5mm underlayment plywood layer to match what I did in the living room. Then I laid down 1/4" cork before I started installing the carbonized bamboo boards. I used blue tape to anchor/clamp the boards to one another while the glue dried. I also used paint cans and heavy buckets to weigh down the floorboards while they dried.

Here is the flooring in the hallway.

Here is the flooring being laid out in the third bedroom.

Here is the floor fully installed.

The new floor comes only is six foot boards. I got really good yield by just using the cut-off end from the end one row as the start of the next row. The pattern turned out just fine and wasn't at all displeasing. I might try manipulating the pattern a little more when I do the next rooms.