that's a great idea. It needs to be a 1/4 tall x 1/4 deep so that may work. My only concern is the bearing, I would have to find one that rides on the top rather than sticking out from the bottom since the flooring is installed and I only have 1/4 from the bottom of the cut to the sub floor.
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The flooring in the hallway is already installed and is existing. Its a combination of tongue and straight cuts that they made when they installed it. Im going to cut it back square just a bit to loose the tounges and I would like to put a slip tongue in to make sure that the boards stay flush over time. I have previously done a room where I just but joined them and the boards weren't perfectly flush. Since its already installed I can cut the slip tongue to length. The width is only as wide as a doorway, so I was only going to put the tongue in as far as I can route a groove and leave the rest to butt up since it will be along the door frame.
Heres a picture for reference. This is at the other end when I did the previous bedroom where I got lucky and the grooved edges all lined up. (this was a test fit of the cut before the underlayment was installed.
The issue with just a butt joint here is that there are many different boards that may move over time and start to come up. A slip tounge will help them all stay flush.
*I don't want to lace them into the hallway because the hallway is running along the floor joist instead of across them the way I have always been told it should be run in a room.
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