Installing Laminate Flooring in Your Room

By Sourav • May 15, 2009

I know you may want to have hardwood flooring in your room but you don’t have the extra money or time that is needed to maintain it. There’s nothing to worry about there are a huge range of laminate flooring available in the market to fulfill your desire with wooden looks.
There are various brands of products in this category the most popular ones are mohawk laminate flooring, mannington laminate flooring, shaw laminate flooring, dupont laminate flooring etc. Hardwood laminate flooring are very easy to install, cheap and most importantly they are very eye catchy and you don’t even need a contractor to install them. I’ll show you how to prepare and how easy laminate flooring installation is.

Preparing your room for laminate flooring:

Measure the room so that you know how much laminate flooring you need to buy, include the cut out areas also, i mean to say you need to know the total area of your room.

Go to the market or any online shop and purchase the flooring, I’ll suggest to buy a bit extra for future use or in case of any mistake done during installation.

Open the roll and spread it on the floor, let it be like this for two to three days, this will allow it to settle down and avoid future buckling of the flooring.

Clear your room and floor thoroughly with a brush, i would suggest to wash every bit of dust before you start installing.

Now you just look how the flooring looks before final installation, mark the cut out areas and gently cut those areas on the flooring. Lastly takke all the instruments that you need like measuring tape, crowbar, spacers, miter saw, jigsaw, right angle square, tapping block and caulking compound.

Installing Laminate Flooring:

Prepare the floor base by placing some moisture preventing foam like material which is also called the sub-floor, minutely remove all the wrinkles and take care that the foams doesn’t overlap each other. You can also place different pieces of foams using a tape.

Laminate flooring are somewhat floating floor i.e. there is no direct contact with the house. So, keeping this in mind keep a 1/4 inch clearance at each wall. Use spacer on the wall you start so that you can pull it off after finishing the installation.

Start laying the boards from most prominent walls, thereby attach the next board according to your manufacturer’s manual, attach them very carefully don’t damage its tongue use rubber mallet for extra protection.

Go on adding next boards until you reach the end of the row, cut the board if its extra and use this extra piece to start the next row.

Start the next row adjacent to your starting position, and continue this process until you’ve covered the whole floor.

Look for any gap or spaces in between the boards and the walls, and fill them with some caulking compound matching with the colour of the flooring. Finally your laminate flooring installation is complete, enjoy it!!!

Wooden Style Laminate Flooring

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2 Responses to “Installing Laminate Flooring in Your Room”

Champagne Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

It’s very difficult to install the laminate floors unless you have experience. I used this site to get my laminate floors installed: Colorado Flooring Site
az flooring Feb 5th, 2010 at 1:54 pm

Here’s a tip to clean a laminated floors. Use a damp cloth, or spray water and use a dry cloth. don’t soak the floor or the laminate will eventually buckle.

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