How To Lay New Floating Laminate Floor

Lay moisture barrier thoroughly clean the subfloor so that there is no debris on the floor and that it is flat and smooth.

How to lay new floating laminate floor.

You ll also want to tear up any carpet in the room and remove the leftover tack strips. Lay a loose plank of your new flooring upside down against the door casing over a piece of the underlayment and saw off the bottom of the casing. Directly onto the subfloor lay down a layer of plastic sheeting to create a moisture barrier. Next cut strips of underlayment to size and lay the strips down across the exposed floor.

How to install laminate flooring. Doing so enables you to slide the new planks underneath the casing. To lay laminate flooring first clear out any furniture in the room you ll be laying the floor in. They should acclimate for at least 48 hours.

Look at the board where it touches the subfloor and see if there are any dips bumps or otherwise uneven areas. This will allow them to acclimate to the room s temperature and humidity. If you are installing the flooring below grade or in a room like a basement with high humidity or moisture lay down a vapor barrier before you install the flooring. This thin dense foam layer helps to absorb sound provides a thermal barrier makes it easier to walk on the laminate and helps the flooring bridge minor gaps and bumps in the underlying floor.

When installing a floating laminate floor you don t need to use any adhesive nails or staples. Install the underlayment or vapor barrier. Flooring manufacturers always recommend putting down underlayment before laying the laminate. Slide the first two rows into their final position and repeat steps 5 and 6 above using the same alternating plank technique to complete the process.

To test for the flatness for laying laminate flooring on an uneven subfloor lay a 10 foot long 2x4 board. A laminate floor is a floating floor meaning it is not fastened directly to the subfloor. Installing laminate flooring is a snap literally. Lay out the unopened boxes of laminate planks in the room.