How To Install Laminate Flooring Without Removing Baseboards

Before you begin you need to ensure your sub floor is ready for install.

How to install laminate flooring without removing baseboards.

Number the walls and corresponding sections of baseboards to easily match them up later. And removing all the baseboards without damaging them was very time consuming and super risky too didn t want to damage them suckers. Pry the length of the baseboard to remove everything at the same time and avoid breaking the baseboard. The next step however is accomplished using a long piece of scrap wood say 18 to 24 inches with a second smaller piece of scrap attached to one end.

Get new flooring with 50 floor. Use a utility knife to slice any caulk that secured the baseboard to the wall. Start by getting those grooves lined up like this. It is not absolutely necessary to remove baseboards to install new hardwoods but remember that wood floors require an expansion gap of 1 2 inch along the surrounding walls to accommodate expansion and contraction with changes in moisture and humidity.

After removing the existing flooring baseboards and quarter moulding check that the subfloor is solid flat and clean. Place a piece of scrap wood behind the pry bar you use to prevent damage to your walls. Remove the baseboards the day before the flooring installation so you can move furniture away from the walls. Installing the last row of laminate flooring without removing baseboards.

Thus would look unfinished if the baseboards were not altered in some way. Laminate flooring is ready to install as long as the base floor is clean and smooth. 2 install the first row of flooring along a wall that runs in the direction you want the boards to run. This space is bigger than the thickness of the new floors we were installing.