Laminate Floor Installation for Beginners | 9 Clever Tips
Laminate Floor Installation for Beginners | 9 Clever Tips
This video shares how to install laminate floors with 9 clever pro tips.
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0:00 Laminate Floor Installation for Beginners
0:20 Tools for laminate floors
1:21 Acclimate flooring in the home
5:33 Test moisture of wood subfloor
6:22 Check levelness of subfloor
10:04 Run laminate flooring perpendicular to joists
10:36 Cut tongue off of first row of flooring
11:27 Run a chalk-line
17:10 Use framing blade or laminate saw blade
17:57 Space flooring per manufacturer’s directions
25:33 Final tip that most videos DON’T mention
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Floor Scraper – https://amzn.to/2GxVCUR
Fein Multi-Tool – https://amzn.to/36vEvxu
Diablo 10″ Laminate Blade for Miter Saw – https://amzn.to/37rwLOf
Knee Pads (ProKnee) – https://amzn.to/3aEu0Lm
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Milwaukee Jigsaw – https://amzn.to/2NWfFQA
Bosch Laminate Jigsaw Blades – https://amzn.to/2Gp8QmK
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I had some flooding and water got under the vinyl wood-plank flooring. I’m stumped as how to dry it out. What can I do about this?
I don’t think that’s what backer did is used for. It’s too fill the gap so when you silicone the edges you don’t need as much silicone. You silicone the edges to create a water proof edge on water resistant laminates. But good job on the install.
Watching this video as I finished laying more floors down and hoping everything will be ok lol
When you have one of those snap and lock pieces against the wall with a quarter inch gap, are you supposed to trim off the tab on the wall side, or do you just leave it on?
do you not put anything underneath the laminate flooring
Just curious if the installation is on a concrete basement floor and wall trim removed still would you recommend still using the backer rod. Thanks
hi
Use a Riving knife and blade guard on your table saw. Also use a push stick please!
How are they staying together when the width lips are cut?
This was brilliant – thanks for the attention to detail. I have a marble threshold that I will be going up against and was hoping to get a tip from how you dealt with finalizing the transition around stone hearth but it wasn’t covered in the video. What do you suggest around details like that? Thanks!
Stodoys has a very large project base.
your a badass. Your tips helped out alot!!!!!
does hardwood flooring needs backer rod?
I usually get bored by the 20 sec into a video of home improvement.. but I stuck around until the end. Plenty of tips. Thanks
Ah, same. Moisture usually gathers at my butt joints also.
Very good reference to tooling and content
Thank you
excellent tips. thanks for sharing
Brilliant and easy to understand! Thx😊
Thank you! This needs to be the first thing anyone watches on flooring! Fantastic!
Thanks that was fantastic. I have a hallway in our house to do for the first time and never did that job before but know I think I can do it following your directions.
At the beginning of the video here’s all the tools you’ll need. 15 minutes later he’s using completely different tools. Dude I’m wanting to do this on my own house but you scaring me pulling out all this other shit I’m not rich. Duh hell 😂
Why didn’t you use a backer rod at the transition to maintain the proper spacing?
What type of blades u using on ur saw and jig ?
too much work, I’ll hire someone instead. thanks though
Great video sir!
Thanks for the vid bud. Im a drywall plasterer experienced in carpentry. I have helped do floors and about to do one for myself. My question is about the foam packing on the backboard perimeters. Is that to form resistance to expansion so you dont see it in the butt joins?
Sir I am expert in wooden floor in Pakistan check my work and suponser me I want work with you
Nice work. I do have my doubts about how much laminate expands. I think manufacturers are a bit generous with the gaps.
I love how all the loud saw noises are carefully muted =) Thank you
Well shucks guess I wasted 80 bucks
Which tool would you want most: cordless nailer or cordless jigsaw?
What did you put around the fire place
I am contractor rubina floor in Malaysia
Hey! I love this video. I’ll be installing laminate flooring in my home and I’ll be watching this video every step of the way. I have a question though, I see you used some tools that you did not mention at the beginning of the video. For example, the tool you used to make small detailed cuts in the laminate when installing the first row. Do you mind listing all the tools you recommend for a beginner?
Great video learned a lot thanks
great info and demonstration. thank youn
What’s the next best way to cut the trim if you don’t have an oscillating tool?
can or should you lay laminate flooring on an existing rug?
Mine were just installed and they had the h pattern instead of natural staggered and it is making me crazy
A Square shovel or roofing tear off shovel make taking up tack strip real easy.
Awesome stuff, thanks, helped a lot to learn some of the ins and outs!
This was literally the best instal video I’ve seen. So freaking helpful!!!!😃
Thank you sir, enjoyed watching your work and following your detailed commentary. Job well done man 🙂
My tip number 1 is; Never lean a crowbar against the very expensive fireplace facia
That was a great how-to on the laminate tongue and groove. Good tips and nice job on the edit.
Thank you for actually showing how you use the cutter jigsaw
I just did a floor the other day, after being in lockdown…. it destroyed my legs getting up and down to trim the last board each row, im struggling to walk haha
Great tip with the backer rod! Very underutilized by most people doing flooring DIY.
Expertly done! Thanks!
Like you professional ways of doing things.