Installation Guide
Tips for laying laminate
Advice for applying laminate
Installing laminate flooring is easy. But it's crucial to properly arrange all the supplies and phases of the project. Here are detailed directions for laying laminate as well as a checklist to help you prepare.
There are generally three ways to lay a laminate floor:
1. Fast, glueless laying
2. Applying Clickguard or an analogous joint sealer. By doing this, the floor is permanently shielded from the impacts of moisture from above. You can still take up and re-lay the floor in spite of this.
3. Applying glue to the floor offers a similar long-term defense against moisture, but it requires more work and makes it impossible to disassemble the floor for potential relaying. Initially, you must determine the substrate that you
Covering a screed with laminate
The floor needs to be completely flat, dry, clean, and load-bearing. It is necessary to level and fill any uneven areas that are more than three millimeters over one meter. It is necessary to employ a PE film as a moisture barrier.
Laminate being applied on wooden flooring
To build a firm and level substrate, you must level any uneven spots and fasten loose floorboards. Position the laminate flooring perpendicular to the wooden planks. With wooden floorboards, you must not use a PE film.
Applying laminate to panels made of chipboard
It is necessary to level uneven regions and secure loose chipboard panels. To prevent grating sounds from forming, the chipboard panels need to be securely fastened to the subfloor.
Installing laminate over linoleum or PVC flooring
Laminate floors shouldn't be installed over these kinds of flooring. It is imperative that these kinds of floor coverings be taken off before installing laminate.
Installing laminate flooring with contemporary electrical underfloor heating and hot water
For advice on heating your floor till it dries, please speak with a reliable heating specialist. He or she possesses the required procedures and the essential abilities.
It is advised to keep the surface temperature at 25 degrees Celsius; in no case should you go over 28 degrees. Old floor coverings must be taken off.
Checklist for preparation and materials
Prior to applying laminate
1. Please keep the packs in storage for 48 hours in the same climate as they would be in while laying.
2. One essential prerequisite for installing and preserving the laminate floor's value over time is a room climate with temperatures of about 20 degrees Celsius and relative air humidity between 50 and 70 percent.
3. The underfloor needs to be perfectly level, dry, clean, and load-bearing.
4. You must test the moisture content before putting the floor on a mineral substrate like stone tiles, cement screed, concrete, or anhydrite screed. In no case may the screed's residual moisture content surpass the following values:
1. Cement screed: 1.8% concrete with underfloor heating
The two types of anhydrite screed are 0.3% CM with underfloor heating and 0.5% CM without.
5. A appropriate damp-proof membrane (PE film) must be laid as a trough to protect against moisture prior to laying on mineral underfloors. After letting the runs overlap by 20 cm, secure them using adhesive tape.
6. A carpet is not an appropriate underlay, and any leftover carpet needs to be taken out entirely before laying. A laminate floor is laid as a floating floor, and must not be attached to the underfloor.
7. For floors without footfall sound insulation, please use a 2 mm PE foamed film or other suitable underlay for footfall sound insulation.
8. Lay the runs in the same orientation as the flooring panels.
9. Lay opened packs immediately.
You should keep the following tools to hand at all times when laying your laminate floor:
• Spacer wedges
• Circular saw with changeable carbide metal tooth saw blade, jigsaw with fine saw blade or handsaw
• Angle for undercutting the door-frames
• Folding ruler, pencil
• Assembly tools
• Footfall sound underlay (for floors with no footfall sound insulation)
• Checklist of materials & accessories for laying laminate floors
• Precise measurements of the space
Laminate flooring
• One tube of Click guard is enough for ten square meters of laminate flooring.
Skirting boards
• Profiles for leveling, transition, and end
• Brackets for mounting
• A membrane that is waterproof
• Soundproofing of footsteps
Please be aware that Click guard or a similar joint sealer and footfall sound insulation may be necessary in specific situations.
Moisture residue
In no case may the screed's residual moisture content surpass the following values:
Cement screed: 1.8% CM with underfloor heating; 2% CM without it.
Anhydrite screed: 0.3% CM with underfloor heating; 0.5% CM without it.