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Installing laminate flooring in my Hallway - it is in fact a continuation of my sitting room and I am avoiding fitting door thresholds.

Problem is this:

There are a total of 6 doors and therefore 6 architraves in the hallway - 2 on one of the long sides, 2 on the opposite long side, one at the front (the Front Door ) and one at the back.

I have fitted most of the flooring and have got the flooring nicely under 4 of the doorways and architraves, but I am left with one more run to complete the flooring.

I am using click type flooring that needs about a 30Deg angle to click in ideally, although a smaller angle will work with a bit of persuasion. It will not clip in when trying to connect flat no matter how hard I whack it.

The only way I can think if is by removing the lips on the tounges so it will slide in, but that gives a potential future problem of movement and the joint opening I suspect. maybe remove the lip but apply a line of PVA to keep the joint secure?

Any good tips to get the flooring under the remaining two architrave while also being able to click into the plank?

attached a quick sketch (totally not to any scale) to illustrate the situation.

Like you said yourself, slice off the lip and glue it, or take off the skirting/architrave to give you more room to get a suitable angle!

I was hoping there would be some "secret" way :)

Thanks Gadget

I'll play around with some offcuts to see how little lip I can get away with removing - be nice to keep a little bit of 'lock' there if possible, I guess.

The skirting is off in fact, so some of the run I can lock into place which will help long term, but didn;t fancy removing the architrave and doors stops at all - never get them on again right

a problem you will have is because you have 2 sides in situ you can only clip/slide in one side the other side will be one or 2 cut edges together!!!!

or have you only got flooring on one side[edge]off the hall!!!

I have flooring edge to edge on all floor sides

I have just finished it and I reckon it looks good

I will post a pic later if you guys like but this is what I did in the end to deal with those last two doors.

Removed the upper bit of the lip so the two could slide together with some shart taps but no angle (I left the tongue for support which did make it lock together still quite well)

I then took the 'threshold' planks and at an angle slid them from the other rooms UNDER the new flooring, straightened them up and then pulled them forward towards the door threshold - this allowed the planks to slide under the architrave, and the new flooring then dropped down abiut 8mm or so to be level with the piece I was fitting.
I then tapped them back towards the new flooring and they locked into place.

Not tried that way before but it did work out very well.

And in fact I have ended up - remarkably enough - with no cut edges butted together, but every joint strill being a clip T&G

Well done chap