How to style your linoleum

It can not be called modern linoleum flooring. It has many worthy competitors, such as flooring or laminate. But the owners of apartments and houses continue to use this material because it is endowed with excellent practical performance, inexpensive, simply placed on the floor. How did the process of laying looks?

1. Preparation for laying linoleum floors

Irrespective of the thickness of the linoleum, the material must necessarily be laid on a flat surface and reliable. Therefore, a preliminary step is removed worn floor and dispose of tie present underneath. Then pour a new tie, using a concrete solution.

Although there is another option: to form a dry screed that is laid from MDF panels, OSB, and sometimes out of the ordinary plywood. By the way, on the concrete floor laid linoleum in principle undesirable, so after filling necessary substrate plates.

2. Laying linoleum on the floor prepared

There are several methods of laying linoleum, but in any case it must first be smoothed. To this end, the linoleum is spread over the entire floor area, then get rid of wrinkles, leave for a few days, until it is completely leveled. Excess floor covering should be removed after the alignment to a fixation was less of a problem.

A particular embodiment of laying the material is selected depending on how many pieces of linoleum used. If the fabric is one, it can in no way be attached, but only to press for skirting the perimeter.

The situation is different - the flooring of several paintings. In such a situation will have to be glued linoleum. Previously it rolled back to the roll, and further the adhesive composition is applied to pictures, deploying it and pressed uniformly along the entire perimeter. If, after such work in some places Linoleum swells, you need to install the goods. For example, sand bags or containers with a large volume of water.

3. Sealing joints in linoleum

When using multiple webs of material remains big problem: there are unsightly and even dangerous gaps therebetween. The best solution in this case would bond adjacent webs flooring cold welding. In an extreme case of paintings linoleum edge is pressed to the floor with double-sided adhesive tape.

Technology, in general, simple. Having shown enough responsibility, each owner will be able to implement it correctly.