Luxery Vinyl plank continued - The master bedroom

I finally broke down and started the flooring project in the master bedroom over spring break. It was overdue but I dreaded it a bit. The glue down flooring might work better long term but I can't say that I enjoy working with the glue.  

Here is the post where I replaced the front room flooring.

 

This is the bedroom entry way when I started to pull up the base moldings.

 

Here is after I got the first bit done.  I still needed to do another row or 2 before I could move the bed over.  The flooring is CoreLUXE Engineered Vinyl Plank from Lumber Liquidators (LL Flooring).  This specific flooring is Jove Travertine 8mm.  One box covers 12.01 sq-ft. It is a heavy flooring.

 

Here I moved the bed a bit more to the left and put down a couple more rows.

 

Once I moved the bed and shuffled some other furniture I was able to rip out most of the remaining carpet and prep the floor.    

 

 

Here I started to lay 3 rows at a time which actually worked well as long as I maintained the stair step pattern instead of completing a single row before starting the next.

 

 

This is the glue I am using from the flooring shop.

Here I have most of main floor done. You can see that I have an angle into the bathroom and it transitions to porcelain tile.  I'm still deciding how to finish off that transition.

 

The main area except the transition is done here - I still had 2 closets to do as well though.

 

This is a view from the other end of the room toward the bathroom. The doorway frame on the right is one of the 2 closets.

Here is one of the closets. This is the only place I ended up with a small strip of tile - about 3/4" on the back wall.  I might have been able to prevent that with enough adjustments but it just wasn't worth the effort.

 

Here is the bathroom transition area.  I got some spare trim tile just laying in the doorway and I put a piece of the bedroom tile up to it for comparison.  The hights are very close. Other than for expansion of the bedroom tile, I might be able to do a "grouted caulk" between the 2 tile types. I'm still looking for what I like best.

For me, this was about a weeks worth of effort.  Ripping out carpet, scrapping drips from the drywall install and getting all the dirt/sand/nails/carpet fuzz up took some time as well.  Making sure each tile was tightly butted up was an effort as well - I needed some extra lighting and flashlight to see well enough.  A few blocks of wood and a rubber mallet helped with adjustments a good part of the time.

Now to get the mouldings in.  I just undercut the door frames with a jambsaw. I'll be replacing the door frames but didn't want more gapping holes than needed for now.  I'm still working out the threshold for the door that goes out to the lanai too. 

Thanks for looking!

Scott