Repair lessons: laying the laminate with your own hands
Before to understand with how to laylaminate, you need to talk a little about how to choose it correctly. Now there are many manufacturers on the market who offer floor coverings in a variety of price categories.
What is the best laminate to take?
If you are going to purchase cheap outdoorcovering around 10-15 dollars, it is better to pay attention to linoleum. The reason is rather prosaic - laminate in this price category is very short-lived and spoiled (swollen, rubbed, scratched) extremely easily. As for the average price range from $ 20 per square, then the situation is much better.
Thus, an excellent option for livingcall Tarkett, Witex and Quick Step laminate - all these are world famous manufacturers who produce high-quality floor coverings. Naturally, they also have their drawbacks, such as the fear of water, but this is a common "disease" of the laminate and will cope with it quite difficult.
If you require a waterproof laminate, thenshould pay attention to more expensive options, where the locks are additionally treated with wax spraying, but this is also not a panacea. In addition, in the same price range, there is a coating such as a parquet board, which is also often called "wooden laminate."
It has a number of advantages, however, the price forthe square meter is much higher. Especially it is necessary to tell about classes of a laminate, all of them six: 21-23, 31-33. The first figure in the class designation indicates the purpose of the laminate: 2 it is household, and 3 - commercial. The second figure denotes the load for which it is intended: 1 - the smallest (bedroom, cabinet); 2 - medium (child); 3 - high (kitchen, hallway). Thus, Class 32 laminate is designed for commercial premises with medium load, but it can be used in an apartment for an entrance hall or kitchen.
How to Put a Laminate
Immediately after buying a laminate is better not to stack,and let him "get used to" the room - hold for several days at a temperature of 18-20 degrees. In the meantime, you can prepare the foundation - we clean the floor, remove the old linoleum (if it was), remove all the fine rubbish and even, if necessary. Now on the floor it is necessary to spread the substrate - its thickness directly depends on the evenness of the surface of the surface.
In those cases where the laminate is laid onParticleboard / fiberboard can do with a substrate of 1mm, but if the floor is concrete and with small defects it is better to lay a 5 mm substrate. It must be overlapped so that the edges overlap each other by 10-15 centimeters. To ensure that during the work the substrate does not move it must be glued to the floor with a double-sided adhesive tape.
Now we begin the question of how to lay a laminate. It is necessary to start from the far from the entrance of the wall, and the panels are laid perpendicular to the window and in staggered order. That is, the first board is stacked entirely, and in the second row we attach only half of the panel to it to get a displacement of 30-40 centimeters.
It is also recommended to observe the clearance from the wall in 1cm, so that when the laminate is slightly enlarged, it does not rest. For these purposes, small spacer wedges can be made from scraps of panels or other material and installed along the first rows of each wall. After laying the second row of panels, it is necessary to slightly raise the entire structure and snap the locks, the panels must be connected without any problems.
If somewhere the grooves do not click, you can slightlyhammer them with a hammer. All other rows are stacked exactly the same as the first two. After the completion of the work, you must wait a few days for the coating to lay down, after which you can install skirting boards and arrange furniture.
Author: Vyacheslav Kinko
