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Things To Consider Before Installation Of Laminate Floors

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Things To Consider Before Installation Of Laminate Floors

Are you going for installation of laminate floors but you’re concerned about what preparation you should do prior to it? We all love laminate floors as they are affordable and attractive options. But to get the best laminate wooden flooring, one needs to strictly follow some tips if you don’t want your floor to peel off and look dated.

To execute a smooth and quick installation of laminate floors, we have come up with a guide with a few of the major tips that are inevitable and have to be followed:

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  • What are the things that should be taken into account before installing laminate floors?
  • Measure The Room
  • Get The Room Ready
  • Prep door frame
  • Acclimate the flooring
  • Wrapping up!
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What are the things that should be taken into account before installing laminate floors?

● Thick boards
● Consider the traffic your floor will bear
● Warranty and conditions
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Measure The Room

This goes without saying, measuring a room before installation is compulsory. This is to determine the square footage of flooring you’ll need, the leave around 5 percent space for waste and mistakes. Besides, leave a gap of around some inches around the perimeters of the floor which gives the floor to expand and contract in different seasons. Don’t worry about those gaps, they are supposed to be filled when reinstallations.

Get The Room Ready

Before installations, it is pretty obvious that we need to get the room ready. What all we need to do is, clean the room and keep the surface at a level, installing it over an uneven floor will only lead to a soft and spongy surface that will open up pretty soon. Though laminate wood flooring benefits from such issues because of the hard quality. But it is still suggested to do the needful. These woods have a certain level of tolerance. Tolerance is somewhere around ¼ to ⅜ inch as measured over specified horizontal feet.

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Prep door frame

Preparation of the door frame is important as the flooring will slide underneath the trimb and jamp. Here one should use a piece of flooring or an underlayment as a guide and present the door from jamming. You can also cut the jamo saw which will make it easy to cut near the floor. This way one can also let the blade rest on the top of a piece of flooring and ensures you have a straight.

Acclimate the flooring

Almost 48 hours before the installation, get all the packages of flooring in the same room. This will allow the planks to acclimate the room’s humidity. Distribute the loose planks after opening the packages in the room and scatter them around in short planks.

Also, while doing this you can inspect or check if any of the planks have any damage or defect.

Wrapping up!

I hope the tips mentioned above will be of immense help to you. Apart from paying heed to the above pointers one also should abide by the direction given in the manual of the laminate floors and implement those too.

Adhering to these actions will imply that your laminate will stand on flawlessly and will have a wonderful finish. If you have any confusion concerning laminate or want to know about laminate wood flooring ideas, installation services you can reach out to experts at Almahdi. We are at your disposal!

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