How To Lay Out A Laminate Floor

This will allow them to acclimate to the room s temperature and humidity.

How to lay out a laminate floor.

To lay laminate flooring first clear out any furniture in the room you ll be laying the floor in. Test fit some laminate planks to see how they will lay out in the room. You ll also want to tear up any carpet in the room and remove the leftover tack strips. To save the edges of the flooring boards use a tapping block or rubber mallet to tap adjoining rows together image 1.

Before choosing one brand over another find out whether it is recommended for use in a bathroom and whether there are any special considerations. This is a list that shows you how many inches your laminate planks equal when they are put together. You can lock the side joints together or simply butt the planks against one another. The laminate flooring in this project has a soundproof backing and wood finish.

For example you will be able to look at this sheet and see how many inches it is when 10 planks are put together or 15 planks or 20 planks and so on. The key to learning how to layout a laminate floor is making a cheat sheet. Next cut strips of underlayment to size and lay the strips down across the exposed floor. They should acclimate for at least 48 hours.

Lay out the unopened boxes of laminate planks in the room. Test the flooring layout. Arrange planks side by side across the room. It snaps together by lining up at an angle and then flattening out the row being installed.

This will prevent damage to the tongue or groove from. If you are installing the flooring below grade or in a room like a basement with high humidity or moisture lay down a vapor barrier before you install the flooring.