Useful tips that come in handy when installing laminate flooring with your own hands.

Laminate flooring has excellent performance and aesthetic characteristics, and thus is not very expensive. Therefore, recently it is often selected as a floor covering.

To produce a laminate packing just enough. It can perform with their hands even without special skills.

But that the floor will serve you long and assembly quality was done without the knowledge of the intricacies and peculiarities of the process technology, still can not do. On them will be discussed below.

To begin with, the laminate, as well as any other material containing wood, varies in volume (expands or contracts) due to temperature and humidity.

If this material property is not taken into account when laying laminate flooring will last a long time and is likely to deform.

Now, based on this knowledge, we turn to helpful tips:

Council №1. Laminate requires acclimatization.

Before installing the laminate you need to acclimate to the room where he will be laid at least a day.

Tip number 2. Careful preparation of the floor surface.

Subfloor must necessarily be smooth, clean and dry. Only in strict observation of these conditions is possible to produce high-quality laying laminate.

Tip number 3. When laying necessarily need to use a substrate.

The substrate performs several functions. It provides a soft cushioning laminate, as well as heat and sound insulation.

When laying laminate lay a substrate around the perimeter of the room is not worth it. It is dirty, and also will stop in the installation process.

Tip number 4. Requires expansion gap.

When mounting between the wall and the laminate must leave the expansion gap of 1 cm.

As the wedge is convenient to use the laminate pieces. You must remove them only after the stacking process.

The very process of laying it is necessary to start with the room. Each next row is laid with an offset of at least 20 cm in order to evenly distribute the load on the surface.