Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - crooked floor

I'm installing hardwood strip flooring and I want to integrate it into existing flooring in the adjoining hallway. when I extend a line parallel to the existing flooring into the room, I find that it does not parallel the wall in the room. the distance from the wall to the line is about an inch more at one end of the room. the wall is about 11' long. I'm worried that the difference will be very noticable. Any suggestions on how to minimize the uneven appearance?

thanks!

You can always cheat a small gap between each board on one end, to make up some of the difference.

Are you planning to abut or lace-in the new floor where it meets the existing?

Jerry T: thanks for the reply.

I plan on lacing-in.

Oh, it didn't sound like you were going to be cutting existing boards out in the stagger, to lace boards in. It sounded as if you were going to continue out parallel, in an 11 foot hallway.

Then it must be crooked along a wall in the room, or your house frames couldn't read a tape measure. I had a wall 3½" off across a family room once. I made up the difference by leaving a very small 1/64" gap in one end of the room, until I got on straight. Good thing it was a dark santos mahogany floor, so I didn't have to fill anything. A maple it would have shown.

A diagram or picture would help but we need some more information anyway.

Put yourself in the "new room" facing the existing hardwood to be laced into. Pull a straight line off the existing floor all the way into the new room. Measure off both sides of the line (left side,right side) to each wall in 3 different places - at the lace, room center, and the end of that line.

To the left or right will the new floor have to meet into the existing again or are they just full walls like a bedroom with only 1 entry point up at the lace?

I stood with my back to the wall of the room directly opposite the door between the hall and the room. I lined-up a chalk line with the edge of one of the boards in the hall and extended it to the wall at my back. at the door there was 34 3/4" to the left and 81 1/8 to the right of the line to the side walls. there is 35 3/8" and 80 3/4 mid-way. there is 35 3/4" and 80 1/4 at the wall at my back. does this mean the walls are fairly straight and the floor was installed crooked in the hall?

Another couple of questions:

when i start lacing-in boards, there will be three rows of boards where i will have to push the tongue into the groove rather than pushing the groove over the tongue. This won't allow me to nail these three rows through the tongue. how do i nail these rows? the rest of the rows i will be able to nail through the tongue.

there are a few joints between the plywood subfloor sheets where one sheet is about 1/16 higher than the other. do i have to level these differences? should i use leveling compound or rosin paper?

thanks again.

Yes, the hallway is out, I was hoping for your sake that one wall in the new room was out. What is this room?

A bedroom with a hinged door or is it like a dining room with a cased opening to pass through?

Does this new floor have to transition anywhere to another floor, such as a bathroom?

I want to integrate it into existing flooring in the adjoining hallway


the floor was installed crooked in the hall?


LOL!!! Here I thought the room was done and the hall was going to be getting installed Hehehehehe!




How wide is the hall, and how wide is the doorway. You may get by with cheating it.