Most often, the quickest and most effective way a homeowner has of remodeling their home begins with the floor. The floor of any room is much like the foundation of a house. It is the aesthetic core of the entire room. New laminate flooring can open up nearly limitless possibilities for the design and function of the rest of the room, or even the entire house if done properly. But many homeowners balk at having a new floor put into their homes. They can expensive and difficult to install. Especially if you enlist the services of a handy man to install the floor for you, it can be expensive.
But it does not have to be. If you are reasonably competent with tools and projects, understand basic math and geometry, and are willing to put in a few hours of solid labor, you can install a beautiful hard wood laminate floor into your bedroom, living room dining room or kitchen all by yourself. Here is how to easily install a laminate hard wood floor into any room of your house.
Do The Math, And Prepare The Layout
It is absolutely vital that you measure the floor space of the room that you are installing the laminate in, making adjustments for all of the places that you will have to trim, to cut around, and everything else. Chances are you are not installing the floor planks in an even square room. Draw out the layout on a piece of paper and take this to your supply store. Have one of the associates in the laminate flooring department help you to determine exactly how much of the laminate flooring you need to purchase for the project. Always purchase an extra package or two, just in case.
Do A Dry Run
When you have purchased the flooring materials, go ahead and perform a dry run with the wood laminate planks. Assemble the floor as you intend to. This is your opportunity to ensure that there are no gaps, no bare parts, that everything fits and that you have sufficient planks. Arrange them properly and mark the underside of the planks if you need to in order to determine which planks will need to be placed in a particular spot.
Glue Joints
As you go, you will have to glue the joints of the laminate flooring planks to ensure a proper fit. This is a crucial step that many do it yourselfers neglect to pay attention to. It is possible to lay down the actual floor without glue, but the joints themselves still need to be glued together.
Construct, Plank By Plank, From One Wall To The Other
Start at one end of the room, and go plank by plank clear to the other side, and assemble each plank evenly and ensure that there are no gaps.
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