Cutting floor for a bay window. I suck at maths and angles and stuff, help!

Phate

Phate

Phate

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Hi all,

So the new room is almost ready for me to put the floor in. One more coat on the skirting and coving and it's ready. :) - At long last!

Now wooden flooring. I've done it throughout the rest of my place and have managed to cut around door frames etc with reasonable results with lots of measuring, patience and colourful language, I got through it all.

Now the final room. It has a big bay window so the floor will need to be cut with curved ends to fit against it properly. The problem is, I'm struggling for ideas on how to measure it and get the correct angle.

Anyone got any ideas or simple solutions to this?

I can post photos of the room if needed.

TIA :)
Jake
 
Use a pencil and some paper to make a template for cutting the flooring. I have done this when fitting a plywood sub floor and it worked well.

Is the flooring not going under the edge of the skirting? Or are you using scotia/trim for the edges?

Dave
 
I'm guessing as the skirting is down you are running up to the skirting not under it? In which case with the expansion gap I'd also assume you are using quadrant and need to get pretty close to perfect as the quadrant you want as small as possible.

I'd template it and if you haven't floored yourself into a corner start there and then you can pull it in and out to get it right.
 
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