Laying laminate flooring. Flooring is an important element of interior of any home – an apartment or a country cottage. Floor covering must be in harmony with the decor of remaining planes of rooms, match it style, as well as meet the functional requirements. One of the most popular flooring today is laminate. Benefits from laminate enough (beautiful appearance, environmental friendliness, durability, ease of cleaning, resistance to damage), but along with it attracts and the fact that it is easy to install.
You can laying laminate flooring without specialist, enough to consult the installation instructions laminate and have the necessary tools to do it.
Before you start laying the laminate you must provide storage for the laminate in a horizontal position, in a room where the assembly will be done within 48 hours at a temperature of not less than +18 ° C and relative humidity less than 70%. You need to check the laminate for the presence of mechanical damage on the appropriate size.
When laying laminate should leave a gap from the edge of the flooring to the wall, it is necessary for the natural change of floor space with changes in temperature and humidity. Reason for installing laminate floors must be dry, smooth, clean and durable. If irregularities exceeding 3 mm by 1 meter, it is better to putty.
Also, make sure that the room where you plan to lay a new floor covering, really suitable for laminate. Is it not too wet? Laminate flooring is not recommended to lay in the bath, toilet, sauna. Since the conditions of high humidity laminate have a lot of deformations.
There are two basic ways to mount the laminate: the glue method, when the panels are joined with glue, and the way, where the fastening of panels is doing by using locks.
With adhesive method of attaching the laminate, it is needed to the ends of panels to put a special fast drying, water-resistant glue. Typically, on the packaging laminate is written how much glue it is necessary to apply and how it is done correctly.
The advantage of this method is that, thanks to the applied adhesive, the laminates have additional waterproofing properties.
Fixing the laminate with using locks is more practical and profitable. The panels are fixed with special latches or locks on the edges. Laminate, stacked in such a way, very strong, in that the floor no gaps. If necessary, laminate flooring can be dismantled and installed in another room.
Also has a meaning the direction of laying laminate flooring. It is important that the structure and pattern of the laminate was in harmony with the shape of the room with light. There are several lines of laying laminate: a direct blow through the light, laying perpendicular to the light, and the second option – it is a diagonal installation.
Direct laying laminate involves stacking panels along the walls, starting from the door. Trimming expenses is approximately 4-7%. The most common laying the laminate on the line of light parallel to the wall. The essence of this method is that the seams between the panels do not cast shadows when the incident light. This creates the illusion that the floor is perfectly smooth.
When laying a laminate perpendicular to the light, the panels are mounted perpendicular to the longest wall (along the door). This way of laying laminate is ideal for long narrow rooms, corridors.
Laying laminate must necessarily be accompanied by a noise-dampening performance of the substrate. It eliminates the noise, hides little rough places. For the substrate is usually used polyethylene, wool-felt board and others.
If you plan to lay laminate flooring at the base of a heated (heated floor), it is necessary that this heating was the water. The reason is that the sharp heating floor is undesirable for laminated flooring, as it may affect the violation of the castle compound and lead to the formation of cracks.
Following the above rules of styling, you can do installation of laminate flooring in your home yourself. So, make your home cozy and comfortable.
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