Laminate without transition strip

Hello everyone,

so far I have only found different information. For aesthetic reasons, we would like to lay the laminate on each floor without the respective transition strips. There are two opinions on this. 1. Not possible at all 2. Looks better and works with sufficient wall distance.

Do you have any experience in this regard?

Expansion joints in the screed must be made. That is what I heard from parquet installers. Between two rooms, you can, for example, use strip cork (but please don’t ask me how that works with laminate). We only have parquet, fully glued down.

Mh okay, at least an approach. The edge joints remain, that is clear. Between the rooms we would lay continuously. One of our neighbors has done this and had good experiences. I would be interested in long-term experiences, maybe someone has had something like this for months or years in the house/apartment.

We have laid the laminate for years on the ground floor of our house without a transition strip and are very satisfied with it. However, it is very important to lay the laminate accurately.

Hello! We have had something like this in our rental apartment for about 8 years. When we moved in, laminate flooring was laid continuously over about 80 sqm, 4 rooms plus hallway. For the first two years, we had to call the janitor more often because a bump developed in the middle of the living room (two laminate "boards" had pushed against each other, like a geological fault). He then repeatedly repaired the expansion joints at the walls until he eventually installed a transition strip between the laminate and tiles (bathroom), and that solved the problem. In the kitchen area, there was already a transition strip, but to the tiles in the bathroom he had only applied a flexible joint. Now everything has been fine for years. You can no longer see any signs of the "faults" on the individual panels. Best regards, Hundeble