How to lay the laminate?

This finishing material for today is considered to be one of the most popular. Firstly, there are many varieties for every taste and purse, and still lay the laminate with your own hands is very real, if you know the basic tips on how to do it correctly.

How to properly lay the laminate on the floor with a substrate?

In living rooms, the laminate should be properly laid on a special substrate , as this is an additional heat and noise insulation. We will consider this option first.

1. Here is a simple set of tools used at work.
2. Beforehand, thoroughly clean the floor of debris and dust. You can vacuum it and then literally wash off the dirt, and after complete drying begin to stow.
3. Now you can expand the substrate you have chosen. In our case, this is an artificial material of expanded polystyrene with a thickness of 3 mm.
4. Pay attention to this point: correctly lay the substrate under the laminate on the floor exactly along the perimeter, as there are no technical gaps or allowances in this case.
5. The second strip is laid out exactly the same way. Each subsequent strip is laid back to back with the previous one, we fix each other with a thin tape. Scotch we take paint, it will not allow to shift the strips when laying the laminate.
6. The last strip will have to be cut off and on the long side. Also butt against the wall.
7. Substrate in place, proceed to laying the boards.
8. There is one small secret, as it is more advantageous to arrange the boards: to hide the seams between the elements, we lay them perpendicularly to the flow of light in the room.
9. And now the scheme itself, how to properly lay the laminate in the room:

• the gap between the wall and the first board is about 15 cm, we lay it with a side with a spike to the wall;
• insert the wedges so that the boards do not move during operation;
• at an angle of 45 ° we insert the second board with a spike into the groove of the first;
• so we move to the end.

We will start the stowage from the doorway.

1. The board of the first row is laid side by side so that you can mark the cut line.
2. We draw a line and cut it off. Next, we lay the row behind the row of boards according to the scheme indicated above.
3. Each board is punched with a hammer with the aid of such an adaptation. Tapping will have to cross and along.
4. Below is shown how the boards of the last row fit.
5. We nail the plinth and the work is completed.

How correctly to lay laminate on a film?

Most likely, it will be somewhat surprising for you, but even today the laminate is laid on film without a substrate. Typically, this method is used either for budgetary projects, or for non-residential premises like balconies and verandas.

1. Again we begin work with cleaning the floor from debris and dust.
2. The film itself is usually sold in rolls. It should be rolled out on the floor and cut off clearly around the perimeter of the room. We will fix the film with the help of building scotch tape. If necessary, we will also fix the sheets of film between them, overlapping them.
3. Now consider how to start laying the laminate. We folded the film and fixed it with adhesive tape, then we additionally installed pieces of boards to keep the gaps between the wall and the floor. We begin to move from the corner.
4. The next row starts with a board cut in half to save the picture.
5. The photo shows how the groove is inserted into the gap.
6. That there were no visible joints, we tap each hammer with a hammer, placing a piece of the board.
7. To install the board and fit the short side there is such a special device.
8. Finally, fix the plinth. Pay attention: it is important not only to properly lay the laminate with your own hands, but also to slip the plinth, since the boards have the feature of expanding when the humidity and temperature change. Therefore, the skirting should be fixed not to the floor, but to the wall.