Floor finishing with own hands - laminate flooring

Laminate in the form of thin sheets with a width of six to eleven millimeters - a fairly popular type of coating in any room: both in apartments and offices. Stack it without help is easy.

Laminate flooring with their own hands is carried out in rooms with a normal value of humidity and temperature. In the bathroom, shower and sauna, that is, in rooms where humidity is increased, it is forbidden to use laminate.

1. Preparation of the laminate

It is necessary that the temperature in the room is eighteen degrees Celsius. Before laminate flooring, the coating should be kept indoors for two days. This is done for its acclimatization in new conditions.

2. Preparation of the floor surface

The laminate flooring, the cost of which depends on the number of stages of work, can be performed on a surface made from various solid materials, for example, concrete, wood chipboard, wood. The surface of the floor must be level. To smooth out all irregularities, the screed is most often used.

3. Substrate preparation

The underlay serves as a protection against noise and moisture, serves as a shock absorber. Make it from cork, foam polyethylene. Between the stripes of the substrate, gaps or overlaps are impermissible, they need to be stacked back to back, and if necessary, can be joined with paint tape.

4. Directly laminate flooring

Laminate is a floating type coating. This means that it is not attached to the floor, and fix only the ends of its slats with each other. You can laminate flooring with and without glue. Recently, the most commonly used non-adhesive way of assembling the laminate. In the process of work, it is necessary to leave a special deformation gap between the wall, objects and laminate. The length of this gap is ten to twelve millimeters, but it is needed to expand the wood of the laminate with new values of humidity and temperature. To maintain deformation gaps, special pegs or spacers are used to carry out the work.

Laminate flooring is best to start from the window and move in the direction of the sun's rays drop, so that the seams are not so noticeable. First lay a solid panel. After the row is laid out, the length of the last panel is adjusted. If the length of the remaining part is more than forty centimeters, then it is used for the next row. Do not forget that in the rows located next to each other, the distance between the joints of panels should be at least thirty centimeters. If you want to put a laminate, for example, next to the pipes, then you can use a jigsaw. Taking into account the gap between the pipe and the laminate, using a jig saw, cut out a cutout of the correct dimensions in the panel.

With the method without the use of glue during the docking of the panels, it is necessary to tap them first in the longitudinal and then in the transverse direction so that the locks snap into place.

After the laminate flooring is finished with your own hands, you should close each deformation gap with a decorative skirting board. A special metal door closes the joint on the threshold.