Plan Layout and Start First Rows

fantastic let's get started whenever you do own flooring you got to establish where you're going to start typically you want to come at an entrance if you have a front door the line should start going vertically in front of you not horizontally our entryways for the mudroom so we're going to start in this side of the wall because we actually have a nice flat wall that we're going to work our way out this way and get into the hallway versus starting midh housee and then move to the sides that's chaos in order to start your first line what we'll need to do is first have our long piece the next piece is going to be a 3/4 long piece so that's going to get chopped off there and the last piece is going to be a 25 perent well a third technically could be the math once we get that started that'll be able to break up any kind of patterns kind of like camouflage and continue our lines out and the good thing is when you cut these pieces off do not throw them away put them against the wall cuz you're going to use them on the other side that's okay we want to get ourselves a straight line I'm going to have to throw some wedges in there so this doesn't get pushed all the way in there you want it to be floating you don't want to start nailing or gluing it down cuz if you do you got to do the whole entire thing this is called the floating floor once we put our wedges in there we're going to take our large tongue and our small tongue lift our small tongue on