Laminate flooring on the concrete floor with their hands

Excellent decorative and practicality, convenience and ease of use - presented laminate deserved reputation as a popular and practical material, very convenient for the finishing of floors in rooms of various kinds.

It can be installed on any flat surface, including a wooden board, but more common is laying laminate flooring on the concrete floor.

Features preparatory process

Due to the fact that the process of laying laminate board is not largedifficulties, many people prefer to do the job on their own, saving on appeal to the relevant masters.

And, in turn, to laying laminate on a concrete floor with his hands was carried out professionally and efficiently, you must follow a few simple rules:

• between the device of cement-sand screeds and laying laminate boards should take some amount of time to a concrete base"hold out" and has become the optimum moisture content (less than 2.5%);
• It is important to check the basis for possible irregularities and blemishes.Any roughness height of more than 3 mm need to be addressed, and then clean the grounds and cleaning.

Laying laminate onto concrete substrate must be carried out on clean and dry coating, freed from dust and debris.

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In addition, laying laminate over concrete also requires an additional vapor barrier device for which you can use a plastic film having appropriate properties.

Another important point: before you lay laminate plank, it should be held in a room, the temperature regime which is about 18 degrees, sealed about two days to better adapt the material to the subsequent operating conditions.

subtleties of self-stacking

Put laminate onto the concrete floor, after it lay a substrate.

this purpose can be used an inexpensive film of polyethylene.Produced this way "overlap" with the fixation of the film locations of joints with duct tape.

Instead cheaper polyethylene can use the more expensive and high-quality bitumen-cellulosic substrate with cork, but it requires the installation of a specific type of skirting having "breathing" properties.

In addition, it can not be laid under the "warm floor".

Stela laminate onto the concrete floor must be parallel, placing special spacer between the walls and boards that provide the desired gap size.

need to be guided to a width of about 0.7 to 1.5 cm.

boards of the second row should be installed in relation to the previous at an angle of 30-40 degrees and locks to her, to them it was easier to snap.

following rows must be stacked in a "staggered", which, for example, the first plank of the second row must be cut by about half.

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All other panel series will already be intact, except when they need pruning because of the geometric characteristics of the room.

All boards must be firmly enter into the grooves of their "neighbors" of a parallel series, which can be neatly knock hammer on them, using as a shock absorber wooden planochki.

saw off the laminate need special jigsaw.

The right thing would be to lay laminate panel perpendicular to the window opening space, as in this case, the joints between them are less noticeable.

After you have laid out the third row of panels, it is necessary to check the correctness of the line of laying of the castle.

If you have to make laying laminate onto the concrete floor heating, keep in mind that the heating system must be run for a few weeks before the installation of flooring and turn off in advance.

cost of major works and additional services

If the room in which you need to put the laminated board has a complex configuration or a larger area for optimum results would be more rational for the invitation to carry out this work of skilled professionals.

They execute it more quickly, ensuring a high quality of services rendered.

This allows you to prevent the occurrence of trouble of redoing it in the event of failure of their own experience.

cost of laying laminate onto the concrete floor depends on the amount of preparation and additional work associated with this process.

This sum cost of the device of cement-sand screed is often included serving as the base for the future of the laminate coating.

price of the procedure will depend on the quality of mixtures, the need for additional work on the reinforcement, or pre-dismantling of the old coating is in the room, etc.

Typically, services in alignment of one square meter cost base under the laminate in an amount of from 300 to 350 rubles.Price

laying laminate on a concrete floor without a floor screed today starts from 200 rubles.

This amount will have to pay the usual laying laminate planks lock type.

Laying a diagonal manner and floor laminate finish in buildings with sophisticated architecture will cost a bit more expensive.

The cost of these services also includes a substrate assembly.As for the installation baseboards and other additional elements, including the thresholds, the prices for these services are calculated separately.