How do you fit laminate flooring?

Good news for a rental, laminate is a floating floor - it clicks together over underlay and isn't fixed down, so it can come back up (still ask the landlord). Order that saves time: - leave the packs flat in the room for a couple of days first - underlay down - start along the longest straight wall, tongue facing out - spacers round every edge, about 10mm, the floor has to move - stagger the joints so no two line up - trim the door frames so boards slide underneath rather than cutting round them Use a tapping block, never hammer the board edge directly or the click joint breaks. The last row nearly always needs cutting lengthways, measure it in a few places because walls are never straight.