Herringbone floor fitting in Smethwick — LVT and engineered wood, set out from the centre line, cut by hand, borders finished properly.
Herringbone is the pattern that punishes a rushed fitter. It is set out from a centre line across the room, and if that line is a degree out the error grows all the way to the wall. In a Victorian Smethwick room where no two walls are parallel, that setting out is the whole skill.
Everything depends on the centre line. It is struck across the room, checked against the walls, and only then does the first block go down. The base has to be flat to a fine tolerance because a herringbone floor shows every dip along the pattern. Borders and cuts at the perimeter are set out last so the pattern reads whole from the doorway.
Twice the cuts, twice the setting out and no room for error. The pattern amplifies any mistake in the first line all the way across the room, so it is slow, careful work rather than difficult work.
Yes, and often better than people expect. In a small Smethwick front room a herringbone floor with a simple border makes the space look considered rather than cramped.
Roughly twice as long as plank fitting the same area, and the setting out is a good part of the first day. We would rather spend that time than get the first line wrong.
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