Flooring Fixer for Empire Floors Laminate Flooring

  We had our laminate flooring installed by Empire - the price was good and about 1 week later, we found out why it was so much cheaper than the competition.  I'm not here to slander anyone, but we had them come out to “fix” some of the pieces in our hallway, as they were sliding under the baseboard and leaving a gap to the foundation along the opposite wall.  Their “fix” was to send some poor guy out with a rubber mallet to do the exact same “fix” that we have been doing with our foot - kick it back in place.  When asked why they left suck a massive gap along the walls (approximately 2" on either wall, the answer we got was “it's for expansion”…I'm a wood worker and I know all about expansion, but this flooring is NOT wood at all, and nor does it expand 4" linearly under normal use.  After lots of messing around with it, I came up with the perfect solution (apart to reinstalling the flooring to the correct lengths) - these Flooring Fixers.  For our particular case, the slats always get pushed to one side of the hallway as we round the corner into/out of the hallway.  To install them, using my shoe, I kick the slat all of the way against the opposite wall, which leaves about a .75"-1" gap on the other wall, which is just enough space to drop the spacer in.  Then you just lightly kick/slide the slat back towards the installed spacer.  For our particular case, we don't require additional spacers on the opposite side as the flooring only gets pushed in the one direction due to the location/layout of the hallway.  Happy Printing!

---PLEASE NOTE---

 If you scale these to a smaller size, MAKE SURE TO KEEP THE HEIGHT THE SAME HEIGHT AS THE ORIGINAL MODEL, otherwise, they are likely to slide under the drywall and be ineffective.

---ANOTHER NOTE---

  These spacers make great use of almost empty spools as they were designed to use minimal filament (notice the "open" design)