Floor made of laminate: advice on preparation and laying

The floor of the laminate in the apartment looks beautiful and expensive. Its laying is simple enough, and the result of the work is very unpretentious and durable. The abundance of color solutions makes it possible to choose an option ideally suited to the general interior. And different classes of durability of the floor cover make it possible to use it in rooms with different loads on the floor.

Laminate laying is a simple process, but it also requires certain conditions and requirements. If this case is not taken seriously, the result may not meet expectations, and even high-quality laminate flooring can not be saved in this case.

Surface preparation

Before you do the installation of flooring, you need to do the preparatory work. First, you need to level the floor. If it is wooden, then it must be processed with a grinder to hide all irregularities and transitions. If the floor is concrete, then it should be leveled in any suitable way, for example, with the help of self-leveling floors.

The next stage of the preparatory work is the installation of the substrate. On the market of building materials there is a huge choice of similar products. It can be:

• Special substrates from the manufacturer;
• Cork substrates ;
• Foamed polyethylene of various kinds of foaming;
• Substrates based on composite materials;
• Extruded polystyrene foam.

Those. The choice of materials is huge and in this matter one should be guided by one's preferences. The only thing that needs to be done is to glue the joints and leave a small gap of 10-15 mm along the walls. Very often, linoleum is used as a substrate. All! The preparatory work is finished and you can start laying the floor of the laminate. If at the preparatory stage all works are executed qualitatively, the floor covering will last for many years.

We lay a floor from a laminate

If the base is prepared for laying, then you can start the most pleasant process in this work - giving the floor a complete look. This stage begins with the definition of the place where the installation begins. The choice of the starting point is arbitrary. Whence they decided, they started there. But there is one small trick - the laminate should be laid perpendicular to the window, then the joints between the panels will be invisible.

The first strip of laminate is laid along the wall. From the wall, pipes and other fixed objects it is necessary to retreat a small distance, about 1 cm, since the laminate is exposed to seasonal moisture. Fastening of laminate boards is carried out by end locks. For a more dense fit of the panels to each other, they can be pierced with a hammer through a wooden clip. Only in this case a piece of wood for fitting should be applied to the end face to the places without a comb.

Then the next strip of floor covering is laid. So, a strip behind a strip, the floor from a laminate is created. When laying each strip, you should monitor the resulting floor covering for gaps. If the gaps meet, then the boards are also fitted with a hammer and a piece of wood. All. Finished floors, laminate can be wiped off from dust and enjoy the repair.