Before laying the laminate, put it for two days in the center of the room — it should be sorted out at room temperature. There should be no open windows, the temperature is above 20 degrees. Check that there is no dampness in the room, humidity is not higher than 60%, but the boards should not dry out. The integrity of the packaging with the laminate should not be broken — pay attention to this. All this is done so that the material is used to the conditions in which he later lying.
If you decide to put the laminate yourself, then be sure to read the insert inside the package. If you put it wrong, then you will have to shift the whole room. You can also involuntarily damage the boards. Check out the installation instructions. The laminate is laid so that at any moment to “disassemble” everything back, so you can not fix the boards with nails, glue, liquid nails and the like material. Check again before laying the integrity of the packaging and each board. If you notice a marriage after you laid the coating — alas, you will not be able to return the board used, t. To. The warranty does not apply to them.
Installation devices
a bar to knock down the boards;
hammer;
electric jigsaw (for neat sawing);
clamp (to mount the last laminate boards);
spacers (for decoration);
The film is polyethylene (useful in case of laying on concrete, provides vapor barrier);
Sound -up substrate on a cork basis (helps the laminate last longer).
Installation
As you already know, the laminate does not tolerate humidity, that is, it is forbidden to lay it in bathrooms, showers, as well as pools, saunas and wherever increased humidity in the room. It is not necessary to mount a clean flat floor of concrete, styling is possible even on parquet or linoleum. Basic rule: the base should be even, not wet and durable. However, the carpet is an unsuccessful surface for the laminate, because the base is not ensured. And besides, the effect of the «static category» will be present.
By laying on pure concrete, pay attention: humidity cannot exceed a mark of 2%. If the screed is uneven, this problem needs to be eliminated. Qualities such as dryness, purity, strength and evenness are the main ones when choosing a base for laminate. The strength of concrete should be preserved during styling so that it does not begin to crumble or by the right time firmly froze.
Still, if you put on concrete, you need a film and a substrate. The task of the film is to ensure vapor barrier from humidity, which remained with the screed. After the film, a soundproof substrate is laid out. On these two layers and the laminate itself is laid out. You need to start the formation from the first two boards. The main thing is to insert the spacers between the boards and the wall at a distance of 10 mm. They will be both from the end side and from the longitudinal. This is necessary so that after laying the last board the wall does not interfere with the expansion of the coating. If the boards have developed in half, then most likely you did not leave this distance. For easy snapping, the laminate fits the lock on itself.
After the first row, logically, the second. Many professionals adhere to brickwork, that is, only half of the other accounts for a whole board. The recommendation for installation in the instructions allows an offset by only 20 centimeters. With the help of brickwork, it is possible to smoothly distribute the degree of pressure between the laminate boards. The second row is laid at an angle to the first so that the lock sniffs tightly. Please note that for starters, the boards seem to try on each other, without clicking on the sides. The final click will be just side.
To connect the boards, a bar is assigned to one of them and knock on it with a hammer. Thus, the board smoothly and neatly moves. Due to the bar, the boards do not scratch, does not occur at the junction. When you decide to lay the next row, pay attention to the spacers between the boards and the walls remain in place.
The whole room is filled in the type of brickwork. The remaining last board is carefully laid with a clamp. The clamp without any difficulties will connect the board with the previous panel.
If you decide to make floors with heated, then give preference to the water type. The floors will gradually heat up, which will not harm the boards and connections. Unlike a sharp heating of the floor, when the boards will be systematically referred to, and over time, this will damage the lock joint.
If you need to make holes in the laminate under the heating pipes, then it is better to cut them with an electrician under the diameter of each pipe separately. Also remember about the plinth. However, you may not have it. If the room has floors with heated, then when placing a plinth, make sure that it does not interfere with the outflow of moisture from the screed.
When repairing, doors and their boxes must be placed at the last moment. However, if you have already put them or they used to be, and the laminate turned out to be a “last stroke”, then you should make small files near the doorbells, a little less than a centimeter. This is necessary so that when opening and closing the doors, they do not put pressure on the laminate, otherwise it can «swell».
Cleaning the room where the laminate is laid is simple and does not require effort. First of all, you need a rag squeezed dry. If you use detergents, then choose special for parquet or laminate. Make sure that the furniture is less scratched. For example, when there are often moved objects (chairs, tables, stools, doors), you can glue felt stickers on the legs. It will save your gender.