Laminate today is almost the most popular floor covering . This material is durable, does not need special care, it looks beautiful in any room. Laminate has another undeniable advantage: as practice shows, it can easily be laid by any person with their own hands. To do this, it is enough to have only a small skill in working with a construction tool. Using the step-by-step instructions below, how to lay laminate floor by hand, you can easily cope with this work.
How to properly lay the laminate on the floor with your own hands?
Before you begin laying the laminate, you must prepare a perfectly flat base underneath it. You can stack this material on both the wooden floor and the concrete floor. In this case, the difference in height in any overlap should not exceed 3 mm per running meter. If there are even small irregularities on the floor, you must make a screed.
Do not forget about another nuance: before laying laminate, bought in the store, you need to withstand in the room where it will be mounted, at least two days for its adaptation.
- For work we will need such tools:
- primer;
- glue;
- plinth with fastenings;
- wedges for styling.
- polyethylene film;
- substrate;
- a hammer;
- roulette;
- corner;
- knife;
- a hacksaw on wood.
If the laminate is laid on a concrete screed, the floor must dry and stand for at least one month. After that, the surface of the base must be carefully removed all dirt and dust with a vacuum cleaner, and also primed it. In order to create a waterproofing layer, polyethylene film is laid on the floor overlapping. And this coverage should go on a few centimeters and on the wall. Now you can lay a substrate or a heater. It is better to cover it not immediately with the whole layer, but gradually, laying the laminate on top. Then the dust and debris do not fall under the substrate. To begin to lay a heater it is necessary from a window, stacking butt and fastening with an adhesive tape. The first laminate lamella is laid in a corner by the window. Between it and the wall are set pegs. The following bars are fixed with the help of grooves, which are on the ends of the slats. Place, which will remain at the opposite wall, must be filled with a piece of lamellas. The new series should begin with the remaining segment, and not with the new bar. So the entire laying will be staggered. The second and subsequent rows are joined with the previous ones only after laying the whole series. If in some latch the latch worked badly, then it is possible to place the fastener in place with a gentle hammer blow through the wood block. After laying the last row of lamellas, we install the plinth and the work on installing the laminate is finished.
