I'm installing an engineered wood floor in a bedroom and walk in closet. The planks are about 1 yard long. The walk in closet is 5 1/2 ft x 10 ft and the room is 12 x 12 ft. Should the direction of the planks in walk in be the same as the bedroom or can it be the opposite way? Example: If the floor in the bedroom is horizontally laid out, should the closet be the same? The reason I'm asking because if it is, in the closet, for each row at 5 1/2 ft. wide, I'll be laying out about 1 1/2 planks, as oppose to laying out almost 4 planks per row using the 10 ft length. Doing it at 5 1/2 ft will require alot of cutting. Is there a rule that states that the planks should be in the same direction as the bedroom?

Thanks in advance.

There is no rule, but keep in mind that you should be installing perpendicular to the floor joist. I have done it both ways.

Thanks for the info. It will help a great deal. My floors are concrete so I will be gluing down the floor.

You'll have to put in some kind of transition if you switch the orientation, which can have it's own issues with aesthetics. It can be a thing of beauty if you can mate the planks up well, alternately it can be an eyesore if you have to break the flow of your floor with a "T" molding. *Personally* I would keep with the flow of the room to minimize the visual transition into the closet, but that's just me.

Either way, it is going to be the same amount of cutting.

Remember to stagger the rows so no end joints are closer then 6" And try to avoid H joints. I would run it continuously through the doorway. Much easier.

You don't really have to use a T molding. But it is more work to route and spline.

I'm assuming that a t moulding is the wood used to separate the rooms at the entrance. Unfortunately, I've already laid down the floor. I did stagger the rows, but I laid out the wood length wise at 10 1/2 ft as oppose to 5 ft wide because it would have been about 1 12 planks per row as oppose to 3 1/2 planks per row. Aesthically, this would not flow into the bedroom smoothly and there will be a break in the floor at the entrance using a (T molding?) Because of this, If I decide to sell the house down the line, will this bring down the value of the home even though it's a walk in closet? I went according to "Bruce's" installation instructions and it said that I should install the floor starting at the longest side of the room. Everything I've down to this home was to increase it's value and to get use out of every single square footage of this house. I'm going to ask a dumb question. what is an H joint?

Where the end joint two rows up, is close to lining up, making an H, looking at the boards.