How to lay a laminate?

If you start looking for an answer to the question of how to properly lay the laminate floor, be sure to find a lot of information about the substrate, heaters, floor preparation and other nuances. But not always all these investments are needed in practice, if we are thinking of independently laying a laminate on a balcony or a non-residential premise, since there all these moments will not be so noticeable. Therefore, we propose to consider the budget variant of laying the floor for the so-called masters of the people.

How to make a laminate yourself?

1. Correctly before laying a laminate, level the floor. Most often, either completely rework the screed , or fill the floor. We just remove the old cover and conduct a visual inspection.
2. All the influx of cement and very large cracks will have to be removed.
3. You can not lay a laminate on bare cement, as it will serve very little and about sound or thermal insulation of speech can not be. But again we will save a little and instead of expensive cork we put the foam material in rolls. It will perfectly quench sounds when walking, and you will not feel cold.
4. So, the floor is aligned and put in order. We proceed to laying the substrate. Cut off the desired length and start moving from wall to wall. We fix the parts of the substrate with adhesive tape.
5. Further we cut a little here such preparations. It would be wrong to lay a laminate close to the wall, since it is used to expand with a change in temperature. To observe everywhere one gap, we will use such wedges.
6. Have established the first strip. Note: the lower lugs of the locks always remain visible for each subsequent lane.
7. We lay the second strip, winding it at an angle of about 30 °.
8. Corner align the position of the two parts.
9. We turn the last strip of the row and mark the place of the cut along the length.
10. The second row begins with the remainder of the strip, which we got after cutting.
11. Please note: in order to lay the laminate floor as smoothly and as qualitatively as possible, it is better to first connect all the stripes of the row, then dock the row with the row, as this will not break the lock. It is advisable to work together, because then you can control the lock fixation along the entire length.
12. Another nuance: it will be correct to lay the laminate perpendicular to the window opening, since this arrangement will hide the joints.
13. It is likely that the last row will have to be sawed along. The work is long, but it can not be avoided. Then we will attach the plinth, after removing the wedges.