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Diy: Installing Laminate Flooring

Diy: Installing Laminate Flooring – We spoke to a flooring expert to get some installation tips to help you avoid bumps, unevenness, gaps and cracks.

When you determine the size of the initial row, you also need to make sure that the walls are parallel. You can install laminate in a 6-inch room. narrower at one end than at the other. This means that you will have to rip off the sharply tapered last row and it will look ugly. If one side of the room will not be permanently covered with furniture, it is better to split the difference and reduce the first and last rows so that neither side is so noticeable.

Diy: Installing Laminate Flooring

All seams of the flooring must be taped. It’s tempting to use whatever tape you find on the pickup, but don’t. Some packing tapes and house wrapping tapes are too stiff and … Read the rest