Laid my first laminate floor over the weekend - the click together type. No written instructions, just a series of IKEA style pictures. At the beginning it shows a tongue against the wall with a big cross through it. Clearly 'do not start with the tongue facing the wall' So started with the groove against the wall which is just the way you do it with solid wood floor boards.
Followed all the other instructions but found it much harder going than it implied - it was not possible to just click the boards together because the edge of the new board had to go under the existing board so needed the services of a gentle persuader to slide the board along. Ended up constructing the whole room length in one piece before attaching the whole lot in one go.
I now realise that the picture with the tongue against the wall and a cross through it does not mean 'do not start with the tongue against the wall' but 'DO start with the tongue against the wall but do not put it right up to the wall' and that it should have all been laid the other way around. A single sentence would have been a lot clearer.
Are their customers really too dim to be able to read a set of instructions. Nothing stopping the manufacturers including pictures to illustrate the text if that would help.
Andrew