Floor Preparation
Please review this list carefully before proceeding to ensure that you can enjoy your floor for years to come.
1) After the mattress, insulation material and laminate flooring are installed, check if there is enough space between the floor and the door to ensure that the door can still open and close. (At least 1 cm).
2) Is the place where you will apply the product suitable? (Is there moisture, humidity?) Make sure of the type of parquet you use.
3) The following floors are suitable for flooring: V 100 paneling, PVC (if all glued to the floor) wooden parquet, ceramic floor tiles, linoleum for upholstery, classic screed. Make sure that the area to be tiled is ready. If a protocol has not been prepared regarding the amount of moisture on the floor, the manufacturer will not consider any complaints.
4) The specified floors are not suitable for laminate flooring: Thick long-pile carpets are too soft and must be removed before laying. Composite products are not suitable because they contain too much moisture.
5) Preparing the floor for flooring: Apply laminate flooring only to completely dry, smooth, clean, hard and durable floors. Minor imperfections in the floor can be tolerated with a suitable mattress. Those larger than 4 mm should be reduced to 1 mm or corrected with putty. Make sure the upgrades are fixed as well. Lay the plates perpendicular to each other.
6) Use of insulation materials: In order to provide insulation against moisture and humidity where the parquet is applied, at least 2 mm thick PE (polyethylene) insulation board should be used.
7) Leave room for the parquet to move: Since laminate flooring is a natural product and its foundation is wood, it has the characteristics of a natural product, the planks lengthen and shorten in all four directions. As a result, on all surfaces where the parquet is applied, a gap of at least 10 mm or 1.5 mm per meter should be left at the edges for the movement of the parquet. For this, use the small wedges on the edges that you can remove when the flooring is finished.
8) In areas measuring more than 12 m and / or 8 m, a minimum of 10 mm or 1.5 mm/m extra clearance should be left, both transversely and longitudinally. This gap can be left at the edges of the doors, between the rooms and at the edges of the corridors. Our recommendation is to cut the plate around the transition profile to open enough movement space for the parquet. The floating system should not be fixed in any way, skirting boards should only be nailed to the wall, not to the floor.
9) Covering the areas left for elongation. The areas left empty after the application should be covered with parquet colored skirting and transition profiles where necessary.
