Laminate Flooring Tips

Laminate floor needs less experience and is easy to learn and requires little tool: One short jigsaw for laminate flooring, a blow iron, a hammer and all these can be found in almost every household.
As a preparatory step, a so-called "vapor lock" (e.g. polyethylene film, construction film) on the flat surface laid. This protects the open-bottom laminate against penetration of moisture. If you use laminate flooring with integrated pad switch, you can now take up directly the laying of the floorboards. Otherwise, you must first install a further layer of a pad switch, so that when walking on the floor, the resulting impact noise car not transfer to other components.
When laying the boards, start at the back of the room and works forward. The boards need to be held with wedges at some distance from the wall, it shows the groove in the room. These expansion joints to the wall are necessary, as the wood expands throughout the year and therefore needs according to place. When adjusting the first plank accurate work is very important, because it serves as a blueprint for the other boards. Now, by attaching (with hammer and wood) to the front of the hall start the next board until the first row fills the width of the room. The final piece must be fitted into a rule with the saw.
Start from this first series is now working in front of the room, row by row, connecting the joint free grooves and tongues of the boards with bat and hammer. Depending on the floorboards Clickboden be parallel or set at an angle of 45 degrees. From the second row of the boards you must focus both on the front side (short side), and on the long side. You always start at the front. The last row must be generally well fitted with a jigsaw. Since you have to go no longer the cut the last row for connecting the boards with a hammer, can one makes do with a so-called blow iron.
Finally, the joints on the walls covered with skirting boards, you get a nice back end of the floor to the wall. The top of the laminate is sealed and protected against the ingress of liquid, but water can enter through the fine joints and the wood can be damaged by the resulting moisture. Therefore, when cleaning of laminate to ensure that you only wipe moist, but there are no puddles.