Among other outstanding advantages of laminate flooring, owners especially appreciate the simplicity of its installation on a rough floor. As a base for laying laminate, you can use not only concrete or dry screed, but also old finishing materials. For example, it doesn’t take much effort to lay laminate flooring on worn parquet. The following is a technology that allows you to ensure the most successful result in the case when the owner is not going to remove the previous parquet flooring.
1. How to prepare parquet for laminate installation
First you need to make sure that the old parquet is suitable for laying laminate flooring. Check the strength of the slats. If any of them move away from the rough surface, they must be reinforced using self-tapping screws or an adhesive compound. It may turn out that the flooring itself is not smooth enough. If there are height differences on it, then the parquet must also be sanded. With the help of sanding, you can make this floor covering perfectly smooth.
2. Laminate flooring
In principle, if the parquet is smooth and durable, it is not necessary to lay a substrate on it. In the same situations, when the parquet is too worn out, you should not do without it. A technical plug or ordinary OSB panels are suitable as a substrate. The plug is laid without fixing, and the plates are attached to the parquet with self-tapping screws.
3. Laying laminate flooring on the prepared floor
At this stage, they turn to the standard parquet installation technology. Only one clarification is important: it is desirable that the laminate panels are located across the parquet slats. When installing the first row, wedges are installed along the wall, which will separate the laminate from the wall with a gap of 5 mm.
Next, a whole row is assembled from the slats, combining their ends. The next row is attached to the previous one due to grooves and ridges. In addition, it is necessary to comply with the requirement of ligation of seams – the rows must necessarily shift relative to each other, because without this it will not be possible to get a truly rigid floor covering.
4. Completion of repair work
The most important advantage of laminate is that it does not need to be painted or varnished. The product will not need to be treated with protective substances. For this reason, at the final stage, it remains only to remove the spacer wedges and install the skirting boards, which will hide the remaining gap between the laminate and the wall. Then you can start using the new floor covering. В Алматы безопаснее всего скачать мелбет официальный сайт , а не использовать непроверенные зеркала. Телефон помощи: 8 (800) 333-47-90.
