How to cut the laminate flooring? Hi, I'm a single mother who needs to do some laminate flooring...
Hi, I'm a single mother who needs to do some laminate flooring in her living room. How do I install it at first? How do I cut the wood to put together it fit the house? I haven't found any good videos that explain how to cut the wood and what supplies I call for to do it. Thanks for your help.
Answers: I have see several videos on youtube, and on askmediy.com, that are helpful within layout and instructions of the installation. But they take for granted that you know how to cut it. So what you need, a small square to scribe a strait flash, a circular saw, and probably a jig saw or small cross-cut hand saw. Cutting the pieces upside down will keep you from splintering the finised side of the flooring. If you are unfarmiliar next to power tools, there are usually helpful family at your home center or hardware store.
The first two rows of flooring will be the hardest to a first timer, but after that, it will be a snap.
Enjoy your new floor.
Installing laminated floor is fairly uncomplicated to do, you can get the tools you will need at a home restructuring store for about 15-20 dollars. You can buy these in a paraphernalia. You will need a underlayment that you place on your floor under the laminated wood flooring. This underlayment is a transparent foam material. Tape the underlayment together with box video at the seams.
Cutting the laminated flooring, use a fine tooth saw. "trim saw or a flush cut saw will also work".
Laying the flooring, figure out the square footage of your room and attach about 10% to that total for miss cuts and extra.
When starting your first run of flooring make sure you confer on a 1/4-1/2 along the wall for movement, buying plastic wedges in the flooring cubicle will help hold you flooring where it requirements to be. "this gap should be along all of the wall's".
start next to a full piece and use the remainder at the end of your run to start your next row, this will stager the joint and will look alot better.
Cutting Door ways, lay your laminated flooring next to the moulding and cut the moulding back so the flooring will slip beneath the moulding, this gives a better look and alot less fine tuning your flooring cuts.
Dont forget to buy threshholds for the transistion from your laminated floor to unlaminated areas.