laminate specialist
alignment FAIL
This is an actual installation of DuPont's "Tuscan Stone Bronze" stone-look laminate flooring. To eliminate "grout lines" going without a break from one end of the room to the other, which kills the illusion that it's real stone, some of the "stones" don't have grout lines at the edge of the plank -- they will match up with a similar un-grouted stone on another plank to create bigger, complete stones that extend across planks in both directions, IF YOU LINE THEM UP CORRECTLY! (The horizontal lines in the ovals here are the long edges of the boards. The top board here should move one small block to the left to make a giant 2 x 4 block at the top ellipse; the bottom board should move one block to the right to create a 2 x 2 block.) People, really -- I figured this out from scratch on the second row of the first job I ever did with this.
alignment FAIL
This is an actual installation of DuPont's "Tuscan Stone Bronze" stone-look laminate flooring. To eliminate "grout lines" going without a break from one end of the room to the other, which kills the illusion that it's real stone, some of the "stones" don't have grout lines at the edge of the plank -- they will match up with a similar un-grouted stone on another plank to create bigger, complete stones that extend across planks in both directions, IF YOU LINE THEM UP CORRECTLY! (The horizontal lines in the ovals here are the long edges of the boards. The top board here should move one small block to the left to make a giant 2 x 4 block at the top ellipse; the bottom board should move one block to the right to create a 2 x 2 block.) People, really -- I figured this out from scratch on the second row of the first job I ever did with this.