How to lay linoleum with your own hands?

It would seem that this type of work is not particularly difficult, but very often with the wrong approach people make mistakes and spoil the expensive material. In this example, you will see how we steal the linoleum with our own hands, and learn the main steps of this process. We hope that all this will help you to easily get a beautiful and modern floor in any room of your house.

How can I linoleum myself?

1. Tools for work - tape measure, sharp knife, ruler for marking, pen, for gluing we find a convenient spatula, glue for fastening linoleum to the base, special glue for joints, double-sided and usual painter's scotch.
2. If the time is cold, then it is better to put rolls with linoleum for about 2 days in the room, and only then start to work.
3. We will show the progress of the work, using for the sake of clarity a wooden layout, imitating the laying of material on a wooden base. We begin the layout of the room.
4. With the help of a roulette we learn the maximum dimensions of a room, considering various niches and doorways. To the received value it is necessary to add 8-10 sm to not be mistaken in case of possible curvature of walls.
5. Using a long straight line, cut off the desired amount of material with a knife.
6. Here we give a fairly common example of when you need to dock 2 parts of linoleum with your own hands.
7. To the most flat wall we join the material exactly, and on the other wall we make a small plant, then cutting an extra piece.
8. We make the linoleum on the floor and fix it with a double-sided tape to the floor.
9. If possible, combine the pattern on two adjacent parts of the linoleum.
10. After fixing, we perform a trimming at the outer corners of the room.
11. We draw a small incision in the inner corner.
12. This technique will give linoleum better to lie in a corner, and will not see large creases.
13. The boundary of applying glue is marked with a pencil.
14. Apply the adhesive with a trowel in the direction from the joint.
15. Carefully roll linoleum to the floor.
16. In the case, how to lay linoleum with your own hands, it is important to properly join the material. First, we overlay the second piece overlapping and cut both blades simultaneously with a knife.
17. We put the joint on fresh glue.
18. Next on top of this place is glued the paint tape, which is cut through the seam with a straight blade.
19. We take "cold welding", install a thin nozzle, and squeeze out the glue, passing the needle along the seam.
20. After about 10 minutes, carefully remove the scotch.
21. The work is finished, it remains only to attach the plinth and the docking profile. We hope that you will like the instruction how to lay linoleum with your own hands.