How do you tap together Coretec

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.......... in an angled hallway? I did the house in carpet years ago and now they want Coretec in the kitchen, dining room and down a hallway that has at least one angle change....... maybe two, I don't recall.
The long joints are one thing, then end joints......... do you connect them together with tape, then install as one long plank?

 

[Ernesto]

Best to read the instructions. LOL

 

[Don Monfils]

Your talking about taping in the end piece ( last piece in a row) against the wall , that is at an angle ... correct?
It’s a pain.
Someone made a pull bar years ago ,
that would pivot and you could easily tap angled rows together.
I usually just do one board at a time,
but I’ve gotten so I can put the end joint together first and lift and wiggle the length , and it snaps right in .

 

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May not be as bad as I remembered, but yes about the angles...... some of them anyway.
With Laminates of the past, Pergo and Wilsonart, you can hot glue a wood scrap onto them. If that could be done with vinyl planks, you'd have a temporary tapping block adhered onto the plank. Probably a dangerous idea on Coretec

 

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Here's the layout with a few measurements.
The living room is below the lower left (not in the image) and it would look nice walking into the kitchen/dining room area walking into the planks. (N/S direction)
This would make 10 feet of the hallway chopped up the short way................. hmm, decisions, decisions.
Walking into the hall and towards the bedroom and office areas would look better right/left..... tho most visitors would never see that view.

OK, back to the angle issue. Look to the right side of the diagram. The arrow and measurement (11' 6") gives you a somewhat accurate perspective of the plank angles in the hallway.
East west might look better if viewed from the kitchen area.
Living room would look better in the N/S orientation....hmmmm.
Either way there would be angles to deal with when tapping them together. Everything from the right of the washer/dryer area has angled cuts. Bathroom looks like a nightmare.

 

[Don Monfils]

You will be fine, nightmares are your specialty

 

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You will be fine, nightmares are your specialty

What was that again? Did you say shave off the tongue and glue it down?

 

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To make matters worse, the kitchen and bathroom areas have 3/8" plywood or particle board underlayment. That has to get pulled out. There is also a Pergo entry near the top of the dining room surrounded by carpet around 3 sides of it. To make it even more worser, when I installed the carpeting years ago, I ramped up the carpet height at the vinyl and Pergo transitions by using cement floor patch, so that has to be ground off.
Their house is gonna be a mess for a while. Wish I could think of another product for them that would be easier to fit in those angled areas............. like carpet.
...........or better yet, paint

 

[Ernesto]

You can always rotate lock in the angled last piece on a uniclic if need be but its pretty easy to lock the end joint in and tap together the long side on uniclic.

 

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Does Coretec use the uniclic locking joint?

I just measured an apartment layout for a lady and mentioned the angled layout of this Coretec job. She told me someone makes a tapping tool for angles and they aren't very expensive.............. I looked on google and didn't see anything.
.....any of you guys heard of such a tool for tapping together end joints with angled cuts? I got my own designed half figured out. Tapping tool fits all angles............ OK, most angles.
.......wanna buy one?
3 easy payments of $19.95 and free shipping. If you act now, I'll make one payment for ya.