How to put laminate with your own hands

How to put laminate with your own hands

Have you started repairs or just decided to update the floor in your apartment? Choosing a laminate as an outdoor cover, you get an environmentally friendly product for small money. It is still very important that the service life is more than 15 years.

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In order for the laminated floor to serve for a long time, it is important to comply with all stages of mounting and properly prepare the base for laying. Do not forget that according to the rules of repair, the laminate assembly is made after all finishing works, i.e. After sticking wallpaper on the walls and the ceiling. And of course, the service life depends on the quality of the laminate. Pick the class of laminate for all rooms in the apartment.

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The following tools are required for mounting laminate:

  • electrolovka or saw;
  • triangle and pencil;
  • spacer wedges;
  • sailing bar and rubber hammer;
  • roulette;
  • special substrate.

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Before laying a laminate, you must remove the old layer of flooring and clean the floor from the garbage. In order to hide small irregularities of the floor surface, the substrate is stacked. It can be made of tube or polypropylene with a thickness of 2 to 5 mm thick. The substrate is sprinkled on the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe room.

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The boards of laminate are stacked in the ranks of the free flooring in a straight line, perpendicular to the window to the window. Measure the length of the room and calculate the number of boards. Each row begins and ends with a board of more than 40 cm, then the whole design will last longer.

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The boards of laminate has a four-sided clockwork lock, on both sides there are long grooves of the castle, and on the other side are shorter. The first row is stacked by a short castle. The boards are connected to each other from the end side at an angle of 45 °. To fit the desired board size, an electrolovka or a conventional saw is used. Measurements are made by tape measure and with the help of a pencil and a triangle are applied the necessary dimensions.

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The laminate consists of wood sawdust and has a property to increase slightly in size. Therefore, it is necessary to install space wedges around the perimeter. They are placed between the wall and the extremely near laminate at a distance of up to 1 cm. These small gaps are further overlapped by plinths.

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The second and subsequent ranks can be started from the balances of the boards. For the convenience of mounting a new row of boards, it is convenient to use a padded bar, with which the locks quickly and reliably snap. The rubber hammer should be tagged with each collected row. The boards are stacked in a chess order, which contributes to the creation of a unique pattern and the additional strength of the locks.

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The last row can sometimes be reduced by width. To do this, measurements and customize the sizes of the electroballs, in this case the edge remains smooth. It is necessarily a technical clearance for the subsequent expansion of the laminate. After the laying of laminate laying, the spacer wedges are removed and the plinth is fixed.

Mounting laminate is very simple and does not require special skills and knowledge. To your new laminated floor pleased you, longer use lining on the legs of chairs, tables and sofas. This will help prevent the appearance of scratches.

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