Laminate has long gained popularity as a beautiful, high-quality flooring of modern apartment.Convenience and ease of handling make it possible to do everything yourself, you just have to know how to lay laminate.
This requires preparation, which depends on the quality of the finished coating.It comes down to the basics of leveling (old floor).Sex can be wood or concrete, it is important only to give it almost perfectly flat surface.To operate using all means possible: scrape, shpatljujut, punch boards and nails, etc.
For wooden floors, this process can be time consuming, so it is often placed on top of the floor layer chipboard or thick plywood.Concrete floor to level simply by applying the self-leveling mixture.This training is necessary because the laminate can be properly put on a level surface with the permissible deviation from the ideal plane is not more than two mm per meter.
top of her stack polyethylene film thickness of approximately 200 microns, it serves as a waterproofing.Her lay overlapping, prokleivaya joints with duct tape.Note that the installation of the laminate in the apartment is available only in dry conditions, it does not tolerate high humidity, for the same reason applies and polyethylene film.
next stage - a device substrate made of cork or polyethylene foam.At the same time it serves as an additional noise and heat insulation.The substrate will protect the laminate from cracking.The substrate and the film is placed with an allowance on the wall.
can then be ready to start laying.How to lay laminate where to start?Put him in rows, the first row must be converted to a side wall, which is a thorn.Sheep need to cut a jigsaw or hand circular saw.Due to the fact that the laminate can expand with changes in humidity, certainly before the wall is necessary to leave a gap of 10-15 mm.To do this, insert the restrictive bars between the wall and the first row.
panels are joined with PVA glue or dry, this in the groove at an angle insert spike following the panel and pressed, then tamp bar hammer, but always through the bar.Subsequent rows need to put a certain number of compounds shift (vrazbezhku), that is, as it were stacked panels in a checkerboard pattern with an offset of about 20 cm. To trim panel using an electric jigsaw or circular saw.
When all the laminate will be laid along the perimeter of the room fasten the plinth.And we do this so that the plinth pressed laminated to the substrate.Pre-cut the excess substrate and waterproofing.This work ends.As you can see, the process is simple styling, the quality of the coating depends on the surface preparation.Before you lay laminate own hands to align the floor.This is a very important step.
How to lay laminate: a few tips
• hole for riser pipe heating sawed panel before laying a jigsaw;such panels is better to connect with glue and put on top of a special plug.
• Do not use the panel with chipped and cracked, so you extend the life of the laminate.
• Try to connect the panels as tightly as possible, inciting a hammer, and not to damage the rim, use the bars of softwood.
• Do not use for fixing the laminate to the floor nails and screws, damaged plastic sheeting panels leads to rapid wear it.
• Do not put laminate on the basis of adhesive mixtures.
