When Square is Good

My bamboo floor is now being installed, and I now know exactly why I had so much trouble when I tried to put a floor in there myself. The walls are not square. Not even close. He couldn't find two walls in either that room or the adjoining hall that were actually square or parallel to each other. So, yeah, no wonder I was having problems. He wound up starting in the doorway itself and lining the floorboards up with the particle board undersurface. But I'm glad to know it wasn't total incompetence on my part. If I'd realized that was the problem, I might have been able to compensate, but I had still cut up too many of the boards to complete the project. And bamboo is much, MUCH prettier.