Fitting Laminate Flooring To Walls

To lay laminate flooring first clear out any furniture in the room you ll be laying the floor in.

Fitting laminate flooring to walls.

Prepare your walls. Lay your first course of tongue and groove laminate floorboards down along the starting wall with the groove side facing the wall. Mark half of out of square measurement. Order an additional 10 for incorrect cuts.

Next cut strips of underlayment to size and lay the strips down across the exposed floor. You ll also want to tear up any carpet in the room and remove the leftover tack strips. Measure the amount of overlap between the boards excluding the tongue and use this number plus 1 4 inch for expansion to. To set your compass place the laminate flooring piece against the wall parallel with your last joint.

When repairing irregularities screw on a sheet of plywood as thin as you can get on the wall before installing laminate wood walls. Laminate is suitable for an accent wall when used in. The retailers have different ideas about how to adhere it though. You will have added support for the screws bearing the weight.

Cut the final piece as needed on your miter saw leaving a 1 4 inch expansion gap. To ensure a snug fit place your board against the wall and use a compass to scribe the wall s profile onto the board. Measure the length and width of the wall area to determine the total area. The thing is you can t use a mallet and tapping block on the ends of pieces of laminate where they meet a wall because there s no room to swing your mallet.

Pulling pieces of laminate together tightly end to end is a standard part of every laminate flooring installation. Here s a simplified checklist for ensuring you re ready to transform your wall. They also agree that you should hang it only on a wall that is perpendicular and not on a sloping wall or ceiling. Install the laminate under the door jamb not around it clean the laminate flooring regularly with appropriate products.